Local adjusters working 4 claims in a 8-5 day?!?! What the?
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Working 6 days a week just to keep
Up with the claims volume is tiring . They let too many people go .
Agree with salaried should not be expected to work longer than 8 hr workday or 40 hour work wk but AZ, North Carolina and Texas don’t give a sh** about that. So enjoy you’re salaried 60-70 hour work weeks. Why do you think all these companies are relocating to these states? It’s not only about taxes. Also I wonder if the Arizona media has gotten wind of how Allstate moved all these employees to their state just to lay them off during a pandemic and dump them on the unemployment lines taxing the system beyond necessary. The company knew that this was their plan before they relocated and collected all the tax breaks from the locals.
salaried employees should not have to work over 40hrs look into the federal labor standards. These companies were sued over this in the past. When you get hired the job is posted as an 8-5 job, not 8-whenever you catch up.
they will keep abusing the workforce as long as we all put up with it.
Nobody should be “expected” to work 60hrs a week.
Sounds like they want claims rushed so dinging and demeriting staff will be legally founded.
60hr weeks = 1.5 jobs or 2x average pay so the family can afford for other parent can care for the kids. Corporations s—. Find a better company
Love it when HR posts (last post) to hit the shame button, accusing people of not being by ‘good widgets’ and giving up our humanity/letting the company totally use and abuse. Nice try HR- maybe skulking and posting on pages like this instead of doing real work are why you have to work 60 hours a week.
If the role is a salary role then you work 12+ hours if you have to to get the job done. Before I was laid off in October I was in a salary position in another area and put in 60+ hours a week and knew that was my role. There are plenty if good people that got laid off that would happily take your role on and not complain nearly as much. Threads like this prove in a lot of cases the company let the wrong quality of employee go and should have done more lift and shifts within the 10% if pay margin from eliminated areas to these roles.
Is it true that they're giving event pay so that adjusters can catch up on their work?
Early days mid to late 90s outside auto field adjusters would get a dozen or more assignments for days. This was before any dispatch software was developed. All assignments were manually reviewed by dispatcher "moi" and assigned to avail techs. We would review and attempt to handle oldest to newest loss dates. 8 hour days were unheard of, this is what ultimately brought on some of the overtime lawsuits in that era. It was a cluster for years but management left you alone, let you work claims little to no micromanagement and at the time Allstate was a great place to work. All of us did not care about the hours at the time, we were treated like humans not animals. We knew at some point we would have the opportunity to make up the time on a slow day in the future. Allstate was a great place to work in the past, I feel bad for the people that were not able to experience what this company used to be.
I agree with 1cig+18wgaTIx. You are expected to work more than 8 hrs a day 40 hr work wk. Thats why they offered to pay 47k to claims trainees and why they shut down all the claims operations in States that require compensation for hours worked. Have you noticed what States the 4 hubs will be located in? All are states with weak employee protection... or “pro business”.
These tactics go back 30 years or more. The 1991 Halloween snow storms in Mpls/St Paul. produced 300 opens per auto liability rep for three months in a row. A specific coverage back then was considered an “open” We used to get our coverages printed out on a 57 list and you could roll it from one end of the room to the other per adjuster. That was living hell. Sounds like what is going on now to a similar degree. Many people quit at that time due to sheer burn out.
you're expected to work longer than 8 to 5. that's why you are on salary.
You should have worked at Esurance, adjusters were handling 7-8 claims per day. That was at the height of our turnover and not layoffs in sight just a couple years ago for liability adjusters. BI adjusters got less.
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Property has been getting 6 claims a day for 3 weeks now. Claims from all 50 states and all perils. It's hell.
Is that supposed to be a lot? In what line of work are we talking about? That doesn't seem like it's that much at all.