The three most toxic managers of my 20+ years long career have been at Allstate, including my current manager. All three of them have zero people skills and yet they were put into positions where they're supposed to manage and lead. I could deal with their lack of general work knowledge, but the toxicity is unbearable. Who promotes people like this? Who thinks that's a good idea?
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It seems like Promotions are given to those who go with the flow and not anyone who thinks critically.
Promotions are done by who you know, even when you have zero experience for the AOR. Equal opportunity & transparency are more lies. Threats to be fired if you speak truth about their bad decisions. There’s no integrity in this company. Quality in work is gone. Only cheapness matters. This company’s going to implode & they’ll deserve it. Of course, the execs will keep their fortunes, while the dedicated employees they worked to death are sc--wed.
I work at a competitor, same issue over there, management is full of people with useless degrees and obvious socialites but never anyone with a management background or proper management skills. Most managers only have a bare basic understanding of the job being done too, which is crazy imo.
Claims has leaders in place that are just best friends that have partied together for years and cover each other’s back! No training needed just ,,7(::;!?? With me on the Tempe parking garage 5 th floor at lunch!! No lie!!
I wouldn’t say the bad hires were all DEI at all. I would say they’re all just nepotism or family connections hires though. And yes, it’s a plus if they’re DEI. They do an awful job at promoting who should be promoted as we all know quite well by now. This is well known throughout the company.
Every toxic leader I have come across were a DEI hire.
Claims has unbelievably unqualified leaders all over the place. It’s been that way for awhile. Mind blowing that decisions were made to promote people who have zero people skills and next to no technical.
Claims management su-ks and always has!!
Remember that CERT is meant to protect the company, not the employees. The upper leadership of this company is guilty of abuses to their workforce that are far worse than the most unethical of managers can carry out.
This is the post I’m waiting for people to weigh in on. There’s toxic managers that have even had CERTs filed on them for very real legitimate reasons, and upper management sweeps it under the rug. Then the manager goes back to the toxic behavior. What happens when someone who is hanging on by a thread hurts themselves, and there’s all that documentation about that manager on file? It would be a media nightmare. And yes, I’ve seen the behavior first hand.
The constant turnover of VPs results in onboarding Directors and Senior Managers from other organizations, many of whom only see Allstate as a stopping point to either rehab or upgrade their resume. They do whatever is expediant and will get them through the week. They don’t know the staff and they don’t care. This isn’t the 1980s, no one here is building a company for the long haul.
I guess when there are no layoffs happening, someone has to find something to complain about. Poor baby, is someone being mean to you?
Everyone in the top 3-4 levels of management are pretty much worthless and mistakes in promotion. Clueless, inept, unoriginal, lazy corporate lessrons. Just look at the way this dumpster fire is run. Complete chaos, confusion, no direction, no logic....all in the name if putting in place cheap, exploited outsourced labor and vendors knowing full well the quality of service and product is going to suffer. All so the top 10% in this company can continue to skim off their undeserved millions before the company plows into the inevitable iceberg.
Promotions? Not layoffs? That's new.
I came into Allstate through one of their development programs, so I have had the privilege to switch roles a few times here at the company while being paid very well. Like many companies, they have good managers and bad. I currently have a toxic manager but I don’t care because Ive watched the company fall so bad this past year (with all the ATS org changes) that I doubt Id stay past 2025. My advice for you: find another role internally, which is VERY possible OR get another job externally. Either way, you know your unhappy so ACT NOW.
I am experiencing the same as well. Though I don’t have as much as OP’s experience, this is one of the most toxic and chaotic places I have ever worked at, even including the skip level, in my short career. I cannot switch either as I am worried about being considered a job hopper in this tight market.
This could be anecdotal, but I have observed most of the managers in ATS that are showing these traits, are from WITCH companies or have not done any schooling in the US. That is no way a blanket statement, but definitely a considerable observation.
DEI hires.
I’m sorry to hear about your experience. Try to network internally, watch the job postings, and move internally if possible. Allstate has some terrible bosses, but they have some great ones too.
Looks like you got the short end of the stick. I will be retiring at the end of this month. Have been with the company for 28 years. In my career I have had a total of 8 managers. I can say that everyone I have worked with were very intelligent, respectful, family oriented and fair. Allstate has taken good care of my Family. We know a lot has changed over the last 10 years. My advice is to keep your chin up and have a check from the neck up. Keep getting those checks every 2 weeks as long as you can, God speed my fellow co workers that bleed blue. P.S. I hope you have a good financial planner to hook you up so when your days come you and family can breath easy.