Thread regarding Allstate Corp. layoffs

Remember : Allstate is a company that puchases its award from a corporate diploma mill about being “one of the 500 Most Ethical Insurers” whatever periodically.

They “pay to he audited”’ for it and shocker !!!! they win each time !!!! (just google the accrediting body that does so—don’t take my word). It, like the employee survey, is all for show.

Negotiation over pay? Strong internal training?

@sf
Somebody needs to put this in the 'anonymous' survey result. It's spot on perfect.

Those surveys are a waste time because the working productive front line are too frightened to answer truthfully combined with the toxic posiitivity pollyanna false positives.

In past specific managers were repeatedly called out by multiple staff in “confidential surveys” and in exit interviews too and nothing was ever done so staff learned all too well it’s for show just play along.

Allstate is a perfect blend of everything wrong with corporate America:

1) sociopaths and ego maniacs in the top 2-3 levels including Wilson and his clique.

2) Another 2-3 levels down consisting of a gaggle of smiling and nodding corporate bootlickers and brown nosers that would eat the fe-ces directly out of Tom Wilson;s putrid assh-ole if instructed.

3) Middle management consisting of a lot of somewhat intelligent and business savvy saps who are all in for themselves afraid to upset the apple cart and satisfied with letting the blame and shi-t all run downhill just to save their own hides, fly under the radar, and maintain this bloated and undeserved six figure incomes.

4) "Front Line" leaders who know the place is in the sewer, have to try to balance their underlings and also living into the above #3....there is a lot of deception and lying with these sc-mbags and none are worthy of any trust.

5) The grunts, those where all the sewage from the upper 4 levels fall down upon. For the most part demoralized and fed up who bear the brunt of all the many failures of those above them. Many so broken that they don't feel they could succeed at anything else (many could) and others who have put in enough time and know how to skirt the system to do just enough not to be bothered, maintain their twice a month Friday deposit, and pray to get their severance package.

Been the 'strategy' as long as I've been here. Adopt the latest trendy thing (scrum, scaled agile, will to win), middle managers put new paint on old habits and behaviors and re--rd the transformation so it fails but their turf and bonus checks are protected, blame the failure on the on the ground employees not 'buying in', jack up premiums, buy back stock, a few hundred layoffs and it's back to square one.

Until Allstate actually changes its culture and pries some of these middle managers who are dug in like the blood su-kers they are, the company is going to continue to lag behind its competitors. No sign of that on the horizon at all.

@a6 They never claimed it was anonymous. It was confidential which is not the same thing.

@by exactly. We beat it to death. The new survey just came out. It’s amazing how agreeable I can be! 😂

@bk I had a team that was honest on survey, they blamed us for the poor results and then we had weekly mandatory meetings on how WE could improve the results.

It's anonymous but if you write stuff in comments box, your manager could work out who it came from. Be honest with the multiple choice questions would be my advice

And never, ever be honest in the satisfaction survey - because it goes to your direct mgmt ("summarized") and I question just how anonymous it is. Just put "great" on everything.