Employees are “encouraged” to either contact Speak Up or your Manager regarding unethical or illegal behavior.If you go directly to Speak Up THEN your complaint is assigned to an internal Allstate “investigator” that “partners” with your Senior HR. If you go to your Manager forget it they will spin, lie, deny IF you are speaking about a “protected” employee. IF they have an axe to grind with with the reported employee they adhere to policy etc. VERY SELECTIVE. The tenured employees keep each other’s secrets, watch each other’s backs they didn’t get to where they are by playing fair.
Internal “investigations” rep WILL NOT be objective they are employees of Allstate 2. Your HR Manager is going to do EVERYTHING in their power to contain/squash the complaint because they should have been available/aware/accessible that this never made it past them. 3. How is your HR going to be objective if the complaint directly or indirectly includes them? 4. NO MATTER how much evidence you give to CERT/HR they don’t ask for it as they want to keep their hands as clean as possible while they “investigate” . You can give them the smoking gun (emails, detailed timeline, video and/or audio) of the person not only behaving unethically but ILLEGALLY and it won’t help your complaint . NOTHING WILL be done to the “protected” managers/employees. 5. You will NOT be given a clear “investigation” outcome by ANYONE. In the rare case you are, you are told “we found no evidence of X,Y,Z” 6. Look for a new place to work because blatant retaliation WILL begin because they know they are PROTECTED. Hence the pervasive companywide toxic culture that drives the good ones away.