Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

Sorry but that is a horrible fallacy that exists today in our society. You should not be able to make a livable wage working at a coffee shop. That has really never existed anywhere in society. These are the entry level of entry level jobs to get people some type of work experience and hopefully progress to something that pays a livable wage. I absolutely hate corporate America as CEO pay is up 1100% in the last 30 years while worker pay is up about 120%. But serving burgers, sacking groceries, scooping ice cream, making coffee, sweeping floors, etc.. was never been meant to support a person much less a family. As far as people covered in tattoos and piercings.....most people do not want to look at that when buying something to eat or drink. Half the people I see at SF look like they just crawled off the street and haven't showered in days....and their performance and attitudes usually matches their appearance. I know you can't judge everyone by the way they look but I think the point Starbucks was making is there is a point where you take it too far and they do not want that being the sole image to represent the company. I do agree, SF treats its people like cr-p...but expects everyone to go above and beyond.... SF you get what you pay for!

Yep. Starbucks messed up. They actually implemented policies on piercings and tattoos not realizing those tenured employees were top notch in service and sales. Between that and sh...ing on people wanting a union for a livable wage really turned off the public.
You can go anywhere to pay $5 for coffee.
Lesson learned is happy employees are tied to happy customers.
Hope SF gets its head from its posterior and does what it can to improve employee satisfaction. It will help customer satisfaction

@f2 has nothing to do with the lefties bing them and damage they caused.

@OP Not a fan of Tesla (TSLA).

Their stock is (clearly) overpriced for their (in trouble) consumer auto business.

Therefore, their pivot into AI robotics; and Tesla robotaxi's.

NHTSA has Tesla robotaxi's under investigation like Waymo's for safety issues.

The problem with State Farm is also a product problem.

Listen clowns. We don’t care if every policy holder leaves. We have 159 billion. With a’b’ in our reserves. Our execs can live off that for a hundred years we will lay off more employees And keep our execs happy. You lose and we win. Again. And again.

@b7 well put! State Farm hahad consultants that bought into the indoctrinated college garbage. It is executive that bought into it flying their consultants out to silicon Valley and making claims a computer process. That and going to hubs took the work quality to lows never imagined. They did all that while selling a substandard product. Everytime business maximizes the margin bad things happen. Thank you consultants and executive.

The consultant culture has been destroying corporate America now for decades, just getting worse! Usually people that can't handle a real job and only read about how things should work and have never had to implement it or be responsible for true result or the destruction they cause. State Farm and our Execs are role models for this!

Pretty much. The statefarm brand value has eroded and so has the employee culture in Enterprise Technology. They stopped hiring capable people and promoted internally clowns that yap a lot without any experience.