Thread regarding Allstate Corp. layoffs

Assessment Takeaways

No way this assessment can count aside an excuse to justify a layoff. When numerous questions ask if I’m an angry person, get frustrated easy, anger easily OR feel flirting / over compliment to get my way on one side and on the other side ask either I think fancy cars mean success, or I’m unorganized, or if a task is hard and I skip it, or I’m unsocial, I struggle to make friends... you are forced into a personality that is not you As you clearly wouldn’t agree with anger, frustration unwilling to change if you had any common sense.

This assessment should have helped decide 1. Who likes working in a team versus being better on their own 2. Anger, frustration, doesn’t like change versus adaptable 3. Disorganized versus time management.

No wonder Legal was having issues with this test. They should sit for the test and see first hand and there is no way they would have justified this test.

The test was a joke and any Attorney would have a field day with their logic, their preplanned arbitration agreement knowing layoffs planned back in late 2019. Before anyone says employment is at Will in certain states.....when there are mass layoffs involving a huge number you should review the National US Labor WARN Act.

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“People get laid off all the time”

Spoken like a true a-hole

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Post ID: @1ddw+16uQO7Cm

People get laid off all the time. I am sure that HR has thought of all the angles with lawsuits. Whining is not going to help your situation. It will just stress you out even more.

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Post ID: @1trc+16uQO7Cm

I think the assessment is designed in such a way that you won’t answer the way you think they want you to answer. What does it matter anyway? We won’t know the results, or how the results are interpreted. They could give any test and without disclosure of “scores” the cards will fall as they design.
Secondly, we signed an arbitration agreement. Not a non arb agreement. Means we have to arb for any filing, no civil suits.

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Post ID: @1fwd+16uQO7Cm

Either Option is setting you up for failure. Damn. Dirty.

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Post ID: @fog+16uQO7Cm

Choose which response best aligns with your beliefs.

Option A: "My peers refuse to work with me, and I find it difficult to partake in team activities."

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Option B: "I'm very disorganized, and I often lead work undone."

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Post ID: @jbc+16uQO7Cm

Is there anything we can do to protect ourselves if we are laid off legally?

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Post ID: @ktj+16uQO7Cm

You know, if they actually gave INSIGHT into what those answers mean, that might help to gain better understanding of the value of the test. If you've ever taken one of these (the 16 personalities, Marcus Buckingham's personality/skill strength), they do ask some weird questions but you get insight that helps. In this case, it's nothing but a black hole with no value to the person who took it. Which stinks

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Post ID: @nje+16uQO7Cm

The most common sense post I have seen

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Post ID: @bml+16uQO7Cm

We signed the no arbitration agreement. But our spouses DID NOT. chew on that a little. I’ve seen suits where the wife/husband is and there’s a separate count for loss of consortium. I’d say they could have a problem.

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