As an ex 24 yr employee "auto" when the Drive In Inspection process went away. Customers loved this especially the older policyholders which Allstate had a lot of. Moving to VA, phone app process, not giving the consumer an option, being forced to lowball estimates to meet your metrics, unfair claim settlements to meet you metrics, the huddle meetings waste of time, this company lost touch with their most important asset "policyholder" and next most important "employee" over managed, micro managed, top heavy corporate culture. Corporate greed will continue to destroy this country as they are moving more jobs out to other countries to start their destruction. I and my former coworkers were loyal employees which were turned into haters in the end. Get out when you can it will only get worse.
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Day 1 or 2 when i realized how dumb/ smug and cliquey some of my peer co-workers of the younger crowd were. I joined, was the youngest in the office, and was completely embarrassed by some of my self-absorbed, hopeless teammates. Listening to them goin' on-on about clubbing, and drinking, then found out one of them was a "manager" (day 1 or 2 here still). Not everyone was like this, but, it was bad. Everyone one of them eventually got laid off or quit. Not smart people.
HO employees ought to get together a grassroots campaign to rename F tower "Lacher Tower"
I began to notice when Joe Lacher openly called Tom Wilson an "effing a-whole" in front of a bunch of sales people after a few drinks.
Who knew Lacher was such a prophet.
When GS joined the company. I knew the company I loved working for was going away
When I went from a HO position, to a CSA position a few years back. All of a sudden Sunday became to s—iest of days, dreading Monday.....
The past several years things started going downhill, seeing how they threw money at sales for extravagant meetings for 2 days that could have been done in a region, talk about fleecing the company, and then walking all over people like MAPS when things aren't perfect. Lucky for us the TSL left to be the RSL in another region.
I should have suspected something in the interview in a dingy, beat-up conference room filled with dead plants and broken computers and old chairs. I thought something seemed off, but thought they might be remodeling other offices. Nope, it perfectly captured the culture.
Never, it's grrrreat
Long-term employee speaking here. When G. Shapiro showed up.
When the overworked adjusters...of the “people first” committees year after year, had to organize bake sales and “auctions” of gift baskets that their teams were required to put together, spend their own money on, and host the sales and auctions and then “bid” on the baskets to spend more of their money and buy the bake sale items their coworkers made. Sometimes you even bought your own cookies back! ......for what ? So the employees could raise enough money through the year to have a paid lunch at “holiday” time brought in to the office with raffles for prizes the employees would purchase from the proceeds of these nutso events. In all fairness, management would kick in a few hundred out of the employee welfare fund. That was your “bonus for the year” ...along with drawings for $5 and $10 gift cards.
When I went to a company dinner & the supervisor asked the
the team " Do you want me to cover your meal ? If I do you lose $25 of your per diem ". Heaven forbid they ( Allstate ) pay a meal for 5 workers and not recoup the $120. Shameful. That sort of ethical leadership is fostered from the very top, as is 15 hour work days, with regularity. Don t bother asking if we got paid for the OT......the answer is pretty obvious.
When I found out my boss had zero experience prior to being placed in their role.
Long before Glenn Shapiro got to Allstate. Tom Wilson was already running it into the ground.
Little by little, each time I was in meetings with corporate officers.
The Esurance story below is both appalling and hillarious!
3-4 years ago
When Allstate dropped the mass email bomb to everyone that they were taking over the Esurance brand, but didn't bother to tell all the higher management at Esurance. So Esurance managers were running around for half the morning trying to figure out if the email was a hoax or not because no one at senior leadership at Esurance could confirm it because Allstate didn't inform them.
Day 1. I went to an MCO for my first day to meet people in the office, start online training, etc. The majority of people in the office seemed so miserable to be there. Some were very smug as well (I was a field auto adjuster). It was painful, but I knew I was going on the road so I just had to deal with it for a week or 2.
when those f–goty huddle boards appeared
Within one month of starting.
When the toxic leadership is immune to layoff sure you mowed the lawn but did you check inside of the house for the floating t–ds.