After being with the company for 10plus years State Farm decided to find an “issue” with a coverage we offer and then say we weren’t offering it correctly but still have to offer it. Got a whole team cut right before thanksgiving. The company is going downhill 1000%. All of our long time customers receiving NO notice or anything about this change. Just left in the dark with no clue what is going on.
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They terminated me, a staff member of 42 years and another agent in Northern California because too many clients chose to move from my agent who retired, to the new agent. CA doesn't have a no solicitation no compete clause. The clients can go to whomever they wish...but Terri Lujan and Heather Burling said it was direct or indirect solicitation. I had to have a zoom meeting without my agent there. This is the new way of downsizing. They told us both verbally but would not put it in writing. My primary agent who I worked for over 10 years did not terminate me...what is strange, I don't work for State Farm, I work for the agent. The agent did not terminate me...State Farm corporate removed my access to the computer system. Be aware!!! CA is having financial issues...they were downgraded due to their financial standing.
30% of the company is 30 plus years of service and over 55. Why do you think they put out this voluntary exit severance program? Time to move on the embedded bureaucrats who do more work to not do work than the actual work itself would take. Most of what's still there in the form of middle management are the equivalent of alphabet agency workers. No interest in addressing problems and just keep kicking the can down the road. I can't even count the number of times I've heard "it/he/she is not going be my problem soon". This is what's broken in the culture.
@py what dr-g are you taking? Look at what we hire in the hubs. Work is not in their vocabulary. Talk about milking the system, they exhaust their life leave and PTO by the end of January then go out on a STD and are gone within 18 mo. Lather, rinse, repeat is all we do with new hires in the hubs.
Don’t get rid of the pension. Get rid of any employer who is not in leadership and have 25 or more years with the company. You can pay the new hires for their salary. And The new hires will actually work instead of milking the system then bragging about it.
@pf this pension obsession is coming from the Trophy Participation crowd.
That crowd missed out on the pension and now they think since they can't get it, no one should.
Add that to the fact that they grew up in a school system that didn't teach basic financial information, so they don't realize what it means to have a fully funded pension.
@np What's with the obsession with the pension?
State Farm should get rid of the pension to save money.
Yes, U/W is auto sourcing a lot of the overflow work right now while modernization/automation is be finalized across all states in 2026. You have underwriting work going to the Philippines, South Africa and India. The average wage for them is right under $4 a hour! LOL! If I was in U/W I would have my resume out there right now. Claims is a devastating sh-t hole that you do not want to go to. With the next generation of AI that rolls out this year it will basically be able to program itself and will get be with each generation. It won't matter, if you look at our hiring practices we are only bringing in the worst of the worst to claims and our agent's are still basically still too expensive and useless. Allstate has been doing what we are trying to do and you can see how well that has worked for them. The 2040 cancer will ki-l the patient!
Auto production is down and Policy Center is designed to eliminate underwriters. Over the next couple of years you’ll see massive cuts there. Looking at outsourcing ET. Goal is to reduce employee count by 30% across all departments over the next 24 months.
If you throw something like that out there, at least say what it was.🙄
I heard the pension was safe. Great news
At least the pension is safe.