Thread regarding Allstate Corp. layoffs

If you are let go due to performance issues, you are not "laid off". You is fired. Cue "Friday" quote about getting fired on yo' day off.

Your transformation is in full gear. Less employees, same workload, and those that remain are expected to pick up the slack for not a penny more thus continuing to devalue each of us in terms of pay vs widget ratio. As stated on this forum Transformative Growth on helps the fat cats in the ivory tower and the shareholders. Transformative Growth is no bueno for employees, agents, and sadly the customers whose cars are sitting in a shop for days and weeks or more or who have a tarp on their roofs for weeks longer than before.

We are exhausted with the workload in claims . There’s not enough of us to handle the incoming claims . Then, we set up auto inspect assignments and vehicles aren’t seen for another couple weeks because the auto adjusters are overwhelmed too so we’re extending rentals . Working late into the night abd weekends just to keep my pending manageable until the following Monday when all hell breaks loose again .

They told us we would get 6 claims a day. Yesterday, we all got 9 and it seems that at least 2 or more days a week we are getting above the 6 claim threshold. Plus the occasional condo claims that we get stuck with due to the condo team not being able to handle. I don’t know who is in charge of that team, but we have been bailing them out since the new zones started.

For what it's worth two of my former peers went on UN review for performance after their mid-2020 reviews. Neither met their required goals for performance improvement and both were let go. One is in North Carolina and the other is in Ohio and both states denied their unemployment as it was deemed they were termed for cause. I am in North Carolina and I know it is a terrible state to get approved for and deal with unemployment for most situations but I cannot speak for Ohio although again that person in Ohio was denied for being released for unacceptable performance termination.

Open and take pics with your phone of prior years performance reviews to make the case that standards have increased greatly and prior performance was never an issue. Don’t download and email the docs to yourself - IT is watching you and flagging that.

Given everything that has gone on between the pandemic, the merger, the extreme workload, and in many cases managers of front line workers being laid off, as well as clear morale issues with being being given 60 days prior to being laid off, thus affecting other departments, I would wager that a pretty good case could be made to the unemployment office in ANY state that this was more a company issue than a behavioral issue.

If this happens to me, I will take it as high as I need to and file as many appeals as are needed in order to set the record straight about how chaotic everything has been the last 8 months at Allstate.

Depends on the state. Some states will pay unemployment if discharged for performance but not for behavioral dismissals. Some states consider not meeting performance requirements as behavioral and sent such unemployment claims. States will typically decide based in their check with Allstate to see what Allstate considers. Considering Allstate claimed that severance was "continuing income" for the time period it was for this all of my team's, including manager, being denied for unemployment for simply being RIFd it would not surprise me if the would report not meeting performance as behavioral in order to avoid paying out their portion of unemployment. Especially if they put you on a formal UN and gave a timeframe to correct your performance "behaviors".

There is no real answer to this since it varies from state to state. One thing is certain that Allstate does not seem to care at all that letting thousands of people go and doubling up and shoving all the work onto others is further causing even worse morale, anxiety, stress, and worry.