Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

It's obvious!

If this was my company, the first thing I would do is pull all management at all levels into a meeting. In that meeting, I would kick every waste paper basket, slam my fist down on the table and point at every one of them. Then, I would say in a drill sergeant tone: Ladies and gentlemen, the party as you know it is over. My workers who are giving their best to our customers need your undivided attention. No more leaving work behind so you can sit on a golf course with you buddies, drink heavily, and play while you are getting paid six digits. No you need to be with them at all cost. Your days of having big luncheons together so you can talk about who to can is over. It is your responsibility to make them better. It is our customers who expect that. No! You don't leave your work behind to work at your schedule so you can go see a ball game. When our employees work, so do you! You no longer are better than them! You are them and this is a team. DO you understand that? Life as you know it is over! NO! We will no longer refer to them as kids, minions, or an expense. The workers are to be appreciated at all cost! What you have done by going golfing, drinking during office time remotely at a bar, and living the high life as now come to an end as you now it! Be assured, it is not only you but all the way up the chain. The days of you having intimate relationships with employees is over. If caught both you and the other employee after investigation will be terminated or moved to opposite sides of the country. The days of smoking $15.00 cigars are over. You now are a servant to our customers. Do you understand that? If you don't, there's the door! It's time management gets this talk.

There are many waiting and would be honored to be there like a good neighbor.

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Post ID: @OP+1bLmaBSG

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OP is written like a child's fantasy of how business, adults, and a large company operate.

Yeah we all would love to be emperor for a day, yell at the managers so they know that you really are smarter than all of them, and the solution was so obvious and simple.

Theres a lot wrong with the company, the solutions sadly do not play out like a simple fantasy with an easy, obvious, solution.

What really needs to change, is the accountant approach to a customer service focused industry. Focus needs to be on the face to face employees so they have the ability to create happy customers, its actually easy to do, if you stop shackling the hands of the handlers. Most of us WANT to provide good service, but cannot.

Happy employees make for happy customers, which is really important when you are not making widgets on an assembly line, which is why this six sigma, accountant metric based operating environment isn't working.

OFC many mangers TM and above could be cut and not a single person would notice, and many mangers are the worst kind, incompetent, promoted above their skill level, but savvy enough to protect their job at any cost.

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Post ID: @5ywy+1bLmaBSG

@3euq. SF has turned into garbage. Garbage in garbage out. You reap what you sow.

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Post ID: @3nvb+1bLmaBSG

Glad I'm out of the mess they call SF. I enjoy being in good physical and mental health with more "certainty" in my life. SF offers none of that.

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Post ID: @3kud+1bLmaBSG

So the OP would pull "all management at all levels" into a meeting and throw a tantrum, pounding a table and kicking waste baskets. Where, pray tell, would you hold this ridiculous dream meeting? Soldier Field?

The same OP creates variations of the same whiny, self-pitying thread day after day after day. This board used to be a place to be a place to discuss State Farm layoff news and other rumors free of spin from PR and senior leadership. Now thanks to OP and others like him it is garbage.

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Post ID: @3euq+1bLmaBSG

And guess what OP? Even if you somehow had the guts to do that, your self righteous preaching attitude would alienate everybody. You’d soon lord over absolutely nothing and absolutely nobody. Enjoy.

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Post ID: @3duv+1bLmaBSG

@2vry.....I call that a cluster f--k.

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Post ID: @2tgh+1bLmaBSG

All this cr-p aside…..everybody at SF is in the impossible position of being held accountable for things they don’t control. The exception being a select few who control everything but are accountable to nobody. That’s all this really comes down to.

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Post ID: @2vry+1bLmaBSG

I just think it is utter equine sc-t that there is a 45 min hold time for underwriting and 200 people ahead in queue for chat.

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Post ID: @2zar+1bLmaBSG

The problem is coming from the top. TM’s, section managers, claim managers have no say. Just doing what they’ve been told. No TM’s, etc seem to have the ba--s to question anything!! I asked my TM if anyone up high is questioning why new hires are leaving at a high rate of speed…without hesitance a firm NO came flying out of his mouth. So now we are way understaffed, back in mandatory OT with no end in sight:(

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Post ID: @2hpi+1bLmaBSG

Talking about it.....an old concept that works. If TMs are frustrated, communication is failing. Quality v quantity?

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Post ID: @2oys+1bLmaBSG

I believe that most of the Team Managers are feeling frustrated as well. I don’t get the impression that they have any control over… anything really. They just publish numbers, forward emails, and tell you things you’ve done wrong. They have to. Your numbers are a reflection of them to their boss. This is all that matters now.

Let’s just admit that “enterprise wide” or whatever you call the post-Rust era has been a huge failure and that change doesn’t always work as intended. Another new application or website isn’t going to fix this. State Farm should start talking to its people and come up with real solutions. We are all getting paid to do our jobs. If you have any control over the future of this company, then do your job.

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Post ID: @2tia+1bLmaBSG

Someone watched too much GRIT tv this weekend. How about take a ball bat and walk around the conference table and randomly bash someone’s head in for effect like Capone? Yea.

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Post ID: @2exe+1bLmaBSG

@1ncq I am NOT nuts with one fact. I retired from the waste paper basket it now is and I no longer work for THE NUT HOUSE! Bahahahahahaha BRO!

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Post ID: @1rzh+1bLmaBSG

I believe you are nuts😄

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Post ID: @1njh+1bLmaBSG

@1lez Not in the least. Dope is for dopes and alcohol ain't my gig. I'd stand in any line for a dr-g test unlike many. Grow up SA! Don't question what I have experienced with my own eyes. My left hand on the bible and my right arm forming the angle of a square. Maybe that is something you don't believe in.

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Post ID: @1dxy+1bLmaBSG

@1fct-based on your response you are high or drunk.

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Post ID: @1lez+1bLmaBSG

@1viu Only disputes about facts that could affect the outcome under the governing law will.

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Post ID: @1fct+1bLmaBSG

Speculation and judgement are not the same thing as truth.

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Post ID: @1viu+1bLmaBSG

@1ibo. No! Never have been and never will be all about me type. Those are the ones who commit selfish acts and need professional help. Selfish people do selfish things that hurt others. Selfish people drink and drive. Selfish people divorce multiple times for their selfish needs. Selfish people self medicate. I do none. You may want to look inward. The truth obviously hurts you.

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Post ID: @1vji+1bLmaBSG

OP you spend far too much time fantasizing about what you think others are doing. Look inward. Possibly seek professional help.

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Post ID: @1ibo+1bLmaBSG

@1njj I bet you are the type of person that sits in front of his children puffing on a cigarette or whatever and tells your children "Don't smoke." Lead by example. SF has too many leaders who look the part and fit in but do not know how to lead by example. OP has a point here though I wouldn't kick garbage cans and pound on the table.

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Post ID: @1mpw+1bLmaBSG

D-mb? Ask any employer what they think of their leaders out drinking and playing golf instead of being with their team? See what they say and ask if they consider that juvenile and d-mb. Directed verdict! There's your leadership associates.

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Post ID: @1afk+1bLmaBSG

Juvenile and d-mb. But expected on this forum.

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Post ID: @1njj+1bLmaBSG

Funny this got on here. My TM used to leave the office to go play golf with a bunch of other TM's and drink on company time without taking time off then come back and show pictures of it to all his team. Not cool but his daddy was an agent so I guess that made him "big time" but in reality he needed major help. He really "fit in" with all the types mentioned on this post.

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