Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

So many People 55 and above are all taking retirement and getting out asap, never saw anything like this before. My manager even said the current development plans we are doing this week in workday is in place to replace everyone that is running away...i mean retiring.

We are going to miss our growth goals this year slightly at were are around 450K new autos and expected to be around 600K. They expect to grow 1.6 million new autos next year and then 2.5 million autos the year after that. Back to their old tricks of understaffing every area, continuing to run off employees to keep expenses down and taking big losses to buy the business. They are going to get caught with their pants down if the market takes a dump and it will take us back another decade. These people running SF are basically criminals.

Even execs are getting out!!! F#wad left for ADT and took two more execs with him… and Farn#wad is still scrambling to find his transition notes from Tipsy.

@d6 and @fk......... posting so many dots doesn't make you sound smart...... you might be the court jester 🤡

Oh god yes! I dread sunday nights and hate waking up every morning. THe job boards are dead empty at state farm and now I have no idea what this talent review BS is about

Do NOT work for InfoSec. whatever you do. used to be a great place to work until the new ciso. now just a narcissistic dept where everyone is walking on pins and needles.

@ec.....maybe you'd better check your grammar again.......you didn't get'em all.........

@d6 I had some typos and I can't delete posts but your comment doesn't make you look very smart...

Actually I hope it does! One of the unintended consequences for large business is it will expose all these narcissistic CEO/Execs failures and toxic corporate cultures. They do not realize it yet but you may see a lot of them pull back on AI once they catch on. If the predictions are true and AI eliminates 50%+ of the jobs in the next 5-7 years, then you will need so much less leadership and be down to the bare essentials. Any failures will fall directly on them and they will not be able to blame the masses or use layoffs as a constant tool of fear, pressure, and intimidation to pad the Exec bonuses! Sure some will survive but again it will expose them like no other time in corporate America! Be careful what you ask for SF!

Don’t worry. Automation will take most of your jobs in the next three to five years.

@bt and @bv........posting the same thing twice does not make it 2x more persuasive.....

No. because I retired early from my agency. After several years in claims, a couple in underwriting, and a few decades as an agent. Agency was fun for a while. Until it became a job where I got screamed at all day by people I hadn’t done anything to. Because the promise was not being kept and I couldn’t do a thing about it anymore.

I had this issue directly caused by a now lead data engineer/ previously data analyst promoted internally from a specialist position. Absolutely the most unqualified person I ever met but was really good in smooth talking and gaslighting people to get his way .
Knew absolutely nothing and if assigned a task would gaslight you into saying "no collaboration", etc to be shown how to finish tasks you assign to them.
I've honestly never seen something like this in other places I worked at, usually a manager would be proactive and remove them but he was so good in smooth talking that he would take tasks that other's completed and pass it as his own in 1:1s and even spread rumors about "working siloed" to get people on his side.
This was the time my mental health was declining and I felt everything you mentioned here, it really was harassment so that he could get his promotion and there are many in ET that do this. I hope I never meet people these in future.

I had this issue directly caused by a new lead data engineer/ previously data analyst promoted internally from a specialist position. Absolutely the most unqualified person I ever met but was really good in smooth talking and gaslighting people to get his way .
Knew absolutely nothing and if assigned a task would gaslight you into saying "no collaboration", etc to be shown how to finish tasks to assign to them.
I've honestly never seen something like this in other places I worked at, usually a manager would be proactive and remove them but he was so good in smooth talking that he would take tasks that other's completed and pass it as his own in 1:1s and even spread rumors about "working siloed" to get people on his side.
This was the time my mental health was declining and I felt everything you mentioned here, it really was harassment so that he could get his promotion and there are many in ET that do this. I hope I never meet people this these in future.

I took my 12 weeks FMLA and 26 weeks and got out! I make less but a lot happier and all my friends and family told me I was a new person! That place is toxic and destroys your soul! Get out....it's evil!