Ok so you are a new hire or you got promoted and found out you got into a total sh-t show job. Realized what a horrible place SF is.
You are in training usually for 8 weeks/2 months.
When you get out of training you are on P2P (path to proficiency).
You usually stay on this for 6 months, if you just don't totally tank it, and can show up to work, they really won't performance manage you.
This will buy you another 90 days which will get you to around a year.
If you are not meeting their insane standards or behaviors, they will have several discussions with you.
If no improvement you will get a drop file memo.
This will buy you about 30-60 days
If you are still not improving you will get a shield.
At this point you need to go to your doctor and talk about all the stress and mental/physical problems you have because of this sh-t hole. Get FMLA protection for your absences.
You can get 26 weeks of FMLA protection so you better get another job as you will probably be unpaid for some of this time/exhausted PTO/Life Leve.
When the 26 weeks expires make sure you have gone to the crazy doctor/talk about how you hate life/lost reason to live/abusive work environment and you can get out another 26 weeks on paid short term disability. When you come back from that they can touch you for at least 30-60 to give you time to reacclimate to the job/changes.
Work really hard for another 6 months and then you will be eligible for another 6 months of FMLA protection and then you can be eligible again for 6 months worth of STD. You can drag it out at least 2 years before they get you out the door! Work another job this whole time and double dip! Lie to them like they lie to you and laugh at home watching Netflix!
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FMLA won’t protect you.
It's a win for you if you need and want to keep your job.
I suppose, if you consider wasting everybody’s time ( including your own) a win🙄
Don't let them force you out wfh employees. Make the going to the hubs move fail. Play their game. Find peace in that and knowing you are doing your part to make it fail miserably. I do not believe they can ever get all jobs moved to the hub.
OP...good advice and you better do it sooner than later as they are going to finds ways to stop this kind of stuff and take away benefits. As they turn up the pressure, this will get more common. The best I saw was a peer basically do this but alternate it every other month/FMLA and they dr-g it out almost 4 years. It was really impressive to watch and sure it took a lot of effort but well worth it. I chatted with them about it and they had another job the whole time. Also got an ADA to work from home so that made it a little easier to game the system. Proper behaviors and meeting standards for sure!! LOL!
You might be really bad at your job or you weren't ready for a promotion. This is always a problem with statefarm. There are talented people that stay stagnant but clowns who yap a lot get promoted.
Had a guy get promoted as a drone claims specialist to ET, the absolute worst diversity hire i ever saw, even interns were more talented. But he was good at speaking and manipulating people that's how he survived, literally everyone in that team left with burnout due to that clown, spoon-feeding him everything with "collaboration". Absolute worst talent i ever saw in my years of experience.
Is this what participation trophies has given us?
SF has nothing to do with competence these days. It's all propaganda, sleight of hand and he or she who controls the narrative shapes the false reality. Hard work.....Actually it is totally discouraged at SF, and all they try to do is find people to abuse and burn out! When you go into any training class and 80-90% of the people in the class match only one socio-economic demographic, we have a problem Houston. This company breeds incompetence and the hardest workers with the best ideas are ostracized.
Or, if you hate it here and you’re not an incompetent a-s…..quit and go somewhere else.
The daily abuse, constant stress, mental anguish and so on caused by this kind of sick work environment are all very real though. It's not an abuse of or a lie about anything if you have a serious mental health issue that is made significantly worse by or is even the direct result of the extreme stress of working here. When you need to use the benefits/protections available to address it, of course you should.