Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

State Farm needs to have a "Come to Jesus" moment. The company is beyond toxic. It's lies and skeletons in the closet need to be disinfected. If you think our government is crooked, you have no idea how bad State Farm is. I have been around senior leadership who have done things right in front of me that regular employees would be terminated for. It is so bad people in the company sell their bodies in relationships to get ahead. The substance abuse is literally depressing and out of control. Its so bad that the DEA and law enforcement should go in undercover at all levels. The work should be audited by outside law enforcement. It's time to review State Farms corporate ethics violations and hold them responsible. Refuse to allow them to pay their way out like they did in RICO suit and call it a business decision. When they say that or take care of yourself be cognizant they are either violating the law or your work ethic for their benefit. A very slippery and unethical group.

All these people not in claims. Go spend a year in claims, see what its really like. Its insane how uncaring the company is towards its claim handlers, what they go through, the turnover. Its like theyve purposely designed an environment to spur as high as a turnover as possible, and then dug their heels in and accepted it as the only way. Its ridiculous, even small token changes could have huge positive impacts, and are ignored, and it seems like every 6mo your being told how your job is getting worse, or things are changing for the worse.

And its all by plan for some reason.

@14s I sure the FK was!

@f7 Obviously you were not here in 85. If you were you would have been writing the estimate, handling all property damage and medical in addition to all BI exposures.

With the workload and expectations, SF reminds me of another former employer, and not in a good way. Nothing was ever good enough, metrics/numbers obsessed, overworked, long hours/overtime as the norm, and unrealistic expectations. I thought that employer was bad in this sense, but unfortunately SF surpasses them.

@em never ate fast food. My pitfall was energy drinks and coffee drinks with tons of sugar. Trying to keep up with the unreasonable workload. FYI State Farm bodily injury adjusters inventory in 1985 was 50 max......Today injury adjusters are between 400 and 500 inventories. Goes to show the quality of claim handling even with technology has gone in the backed up toilet creating an unhealthy work environment. Maybe someday they'll begin to smell the stench and want to clean it up!

You can blame work for being fat or you can look at the fast food bags strewn all over your floor. Bunch of fatties in blono

Looking at the votes on all of these comments, I can't believe there are some negative votes. But, knowing the topic and seeing the same 1 or 2 negative votes, I do have suspicion of who those are, based on my knowledge of who monitors this board from SF (you know who you are) :-)

Not only does State Farm take your mental health, it su-ks your physical health as well. When I retired, I was 268 lbs and my A1C was 13.2. My thyroid was peaking. I left. My A1C is 5.4, my thyroid perfect, and my weight is a healthy 210 lbs. State Farm does su-k the life out of a person. It is not a healthy work environment. Look around at all the death cubicles. They have no interest in keeping you healthy because they don't like long term employees. They do not care about you, your family, your health and mostly your mental well being.

@OP mirrors my experience precisely.

No such thing as career accomplishments. “What have you done for me lately?!”

At SF, you “rent” your “approval” each and every year.

Nothing is ever good enough.

And give up my big fat pension while I work fully remote? No thank you.

I experienced the same thing! Leave if you can!

@OP I too was in leadership for 20 yrs (not claims) and voluntarily got out in 2012. Unfortunately couldn’t leave and took at analyst role. Even that role is seeing the same things you describe. It’s 100% true and getting worse by the day. Agree if you can get out and get to a healthier place