I retired in 2018. At that time they were closing a handful of the regional offices and transitioning to the hubs. I haven't kept up with the effort to close the regions. Does the farm still have any at all?
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No regional offices anymore, no more good neighbor. Maybe distant relative but certainly not a neighbor anymore
Yep, and now emails about massive employee movement. They are just insane with how badly they staff and prepare departments. Ive never seen a company so disorganized with its employees before, and its been constant for over 10 years, and only getting worse.
I cant think of any other company that forces its workers into some merry go round of roles simply because they refuse to retain anyone, at all, with any effort.
They really are using claims to lay people off softly. Just keep turnover high, keep everyone mad, and then start forcing people from other areas out the company by forcing them into that awful claims department. Maybe its brilliant for a way to rid the company of masses of people/knowledge but explain how this is good for the company long term, and the customer, who all seem to leave after awful claims experiences?
What is the cost to this company on lost customers after a claim? Send that surcharge off to our competitor helps us how again? What is the cost to this company on having to continually have to hire people and train people?
Im actually starting to think theres something criminal brewing with our executives and board of directors....just no action in the last 10 years seems to be in benefit of State Farm and the customer, so i wonder, who is actually benefiting from this all, and how?
They closed all the LOC right before covid, with the plan to lay off everyone who refused to move to a hub, which they walked backed, fired Robert Yi for trying to discard the unwanted workforce before they were actually ready to lose so many, and now all those LOC people get to WFH 100% of the time while hub people get tortured to commute (with increased requirements in office soon!)
Company is so ridiculously mismanaged, especially with customer facing workers, which they seem to want to be as untrained, unexperienced, and unhappy as management can force. Staffing is set so low that its barely functional, and that doesnt take into account crazy high turnover that they ALWAYS are needing to address like its some surprise, at least the last 10 years has been this way.
On the one hand, no cost is too high to cut, on the other lets waste tons of money on AAA class office space in boomtowns that NO ONE wants to commute to, and opulent agency conventions, and mega executive bonuses.
Be lucky anyone whos recently or will recently retire, you all are getting out right before the company collapses. Were already losing #1 status, and no one cares, the only thing they seem to care about is making sure the customer facing workers are as unhappy as possible.
Invest in progressive if you have the spare money would be my only suggestion.
@k2 Sounds like a solid case for higher taxes and more organized labor, both of which were at their highest during Boomer years!
@jx What was there to hate when us boomers were young? The cars were hit and didn't have all this liberal cr@p on it to make it "environmental". The girls were hotter, no need for GLP1, no blue hair, they just "invented" the birth control pill, so there was a lot of frustrated girls (and even some of their moms) that wanted to enjoy their new s-xual freedom. No HIV.
We could buy a convertible, a house for a few bucks, walk down the street an everyone was hiring with great pay. And still have money left over to take a girl or two out for the weekend.
College was basically free, or the company you worked for paid your way to get a masters degree, and if course it was real education, not the basket weaving degrees you get today.
When we got older, we had money to invest when stocks were cheap. Do you realize that BITCOIN used to cost under a buck?
Hahaha, yeah, we had it rough
@fn I am sure that when you were younger, you hated your job so you quit. You put on a suit, walked into the nearest store and shook the owner's hand and got a job that way. Or walked into the bank, looked the banker in the eye and got your loan to start your business. It is that simple.
Oh, and everybody clapped.
@fn Yeah , shut up kids. If you do not like America, you can get out. Rabble rabble rabble! We do not accept or like change here. We hate innovation. We corner the Boomer market. They will always be the dominant generation. Even 30 years from now.
@fk You don't appear to have the ability to understand what "triggered" means.
That is understandable, not having had the ability to become an adult and do normal adult activities. Go out on a limb, leave the basement, ask a girl out on a date....IN PERSON, NOT ON AN APP!
If you aren't happy with your job or salary, open a business on your own and find out if you really are worth more than what you are being paid by State Farm, or come to the realization that you are actually overpaid and lucky to have been given a job by someone.
Grow up.
@f3 nobody cares if a pension boomer is triggered.
To the poster. No. There are no regional offices / operation centers. They closed about half before covid and moved the jobs to the hubs. The other half was supposed to close over a few years, but Covid hit and those workers that reported to the operation centers went to wfh. They then closed the buildings down. Been wfh ever since just waiting for our jobs to get moved to the hub and a severance pkg.
If remote work was clearly and obviously bad for productivity and customer service, why do State Farm's major competitors like Allstate, Liberty Mutual, and Progressive continue to support it?
@en You renter generation kids will need to find someone else other than boomers to blame in 8 months, as by then, the YOUNGEST boomer will be 62, or full retirement age at State farm.
If you don't believe me, yell upstairs to your mom and ask her.
@en If someone has about 20 more years to go before retirement, they're probably younger Gen X /Xennial, not a Boomer. Younger Boomers are already at retirement age.
@b4 the pension should be removed if you want people to RTO. You can't get everything your way, boomers complaining about people working from home but crying whenever rumors about pension are mentioned 🤡
Love my pension. 20 more years then I retire. Don’t touch the pension!!!!