I left Allstate in October 2022 for reference. I wasn't given any exit interview or reference on what to do, but I had read other posts on here about returning equipment so I emailed the AskHR account for help multiple times and never got a response. Fast forward to yesterday when I returned from a holiday vacation to find a letter requesting the equipment back after over 2 years. The kicker is they said I had 21 days to return or they would "resort to more formal means to obtain either Allstate's property or that property's monetary value." I still have the equipment and will be sending it back but WHAT A JOKE!! I'm not sure how enforceable this is, but wanted to let others know so nobody ends up having to pay them back for their loose ends and subpar HR practices.
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Just flash that sh-t , reinstall windows and bam new home laptop
I wouldn't bother. The gormless woman in charge of hardware assets like your laptop is a fu--ing mo--n. The process leads nowhere. Just keep ignoring everything and they stop after a month or so.
I am guessing you are specifically referring to the laptop they wanted back, I can understand them wanting that back. When I left my id--t manager said IT would send boxes for everything, they only sent a box for the laptop so I contacted IT and they ended up emailing me saying they only wanted the laptop back. I wasn't surprised since when they shut down the regional offices during COVID they just trashed all the monitors and we just had a tech refresh 6 months prior, so much money wasted.
Fedex label should provided .
Par for the course at this dumpster fire 🔥
That is quite funny :D
You should return their equipment, just make it as difficult, time consuming, awkward and expensive as possible for them.
Too many non American id--ts from cheap countries making decisions or involved especially countries starting with Ind and Mex. Labor and out sourcing is cheap along with low quality.
It takes infinite myhr request to fix I am continue to fix issues. What a shame
A tiny bit of insight. The team that used to handle these were recently RIF'd. They would have done the cost/benefit decision of simply not collecting a laptop worth maybe $100 as not worth the effort. That work is now being done by someone less experienced that sees an uncollected asset, and isn't thinking about the cost for them to recover it, not realizing that their time, probably $40 in shipping plus whatever HOBI is charging us this year is likely at least twice the salvage cost of that laptop, or 4x if you have an SFF desktop.
If you've got a big saw - band saw, table saw, that kind of thing - cut that laptop into strips & let them have it back!
Off is the direction in which they can f**K!
When the time comes they are getting it back in pieces....if I don't sell it to the highest bidding competitor.
Send it to them COD...