Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

Agile is not practiced at State Farm. We are floundering with no real guidance or leadership at all levels of management. Too many older employees(especially management) with no real technical skills Too many external employees with too little to do. The modernization efforts are a joke. Some genius committed to an archaic policy administration system that is ill-suited for the company. If the executive team was wise it would use the covid-19 pandemic to restructure the department and get rid of the considerable dead weight by offering buyouts and other incentives.

The people who did the work (managers who left in ET) took the buyout. :)

I agree. Most and much of systems except support is “non essential”. ET, “digital” and Learning and Planning.

Leadership should be doing the work. Not being robots and drones for justifying “teams”. It’s micromanagement at its worst

Have them sit on help desk or claim calls. How work was done back in the day lol. Unfortunately got too big for their britches and too many layers.

I got the BudLightvirus!!! Glug, Glug, Glug...Ahhhhhhh! Just self medicated. Somebody pass me another cold bottle of medication...oh, and you non-essential worker drones get back to it.

That is foolish. Free market - if you know so much the world is your oyster

GUI. It’s not your vivify “leaders” that change the way we work or how people behave or think. Despite the rhetoric and oats in back

Until you techie junk finally understand the forgotten ones who deliver the promise, you are junk and should shut up.

Why are you so against ET leadership? Our new leaders selected from vivify are changing how we do work and deliver. You must be speaking of old systems world.

This is the culture at SF. Always has been that there are more chiefs than Indians at all levels but mostly in the upper and middle mgmt levels. I can say this has been true for the last 30 years or so. Question is: what happens when you build a big beautiful house with no foundation. What they call minions and "claim scum" will soon need to be addressed. The faith has been lost. A come to Jesus is needed.

Not surprised!