Thread regarding State Farm Insurance layoffs

I admire your courage! I've seen many coworkers also leave after being here 10-20 or more years, people I thought would never dream of leaving. It's obvious there is no reason to stay and weather this storm. This storm just gains strength and intensity as time goes on.

No wonder my bonus was sh-- this year and I got a dollar payraise.

I’m working on a series of interviews. I have 5 questions. If anyone is interested in participating please answer and send to me. Your responses will be used in a book but your name and details will be confidential.

1. How prepared to do think you are for your next career?

2. How do you feel you measure up to your job market competition?

3. How were you treated at this organization? What was unfair?

4. What’s next?

5. What did you do? For how long? Did you feel you did your best?

Send email responses to linkedinsally@gmail.com

it's the same for agents who kept their old (pre-AA'97) contracts. The "Marketing Partnership" was abandoned and many costs were shifted to agents. Agents used to get 50% reimbursement for approved newspaper and radio advertising. Practically impossible now. They used to supply all operating forms at no cost. Now you print them yourself on paper and printer ink which you have to buy. They use to sell agents remembrance advertising items at nearly their cost (like a case of 24 road atlases for $30 with free shipping). Now "You get to choose your shipping method!" (at your expense), and the 3rd party vendor charges $75 a case. All remembrance advertising items went up 35% to 50%. Agents pensions are funded by only 2 things: MUTUAL auto and Fire premiums. They used to write 90% of autos in Mutual. Now with indexing and new rules it's more like 60% if your lucky. Even people withe completely clean records and continuous insurance in force get put into Standard. It's death by 1000 cuts for agents with the old contract.

I was in the same boat - worked there 10 years & felt like I was suffocating every single day. The day I turned in my resignation letter was the happiest I'd been in 2 years.

Despite this, I feel bad for people who are losing their job. Severance pay can be generous, but it's not enough for some families. I wish everyone the best of luck!

I can relate. I too recently left SF and am extremely happy to have done so. While I didn't work there 20 years, I share some of your experiences. It's a certified mess, and I barely made it out prior to the most recent office closings.

In my case, I was "reassigned" from a somewhat high level position to a lower leave position for no known reason. I was lied to many times over, as were others. I have industry experience and a graduate degree, yet was tossed away into a position that required swiping a physical time clock like a high schooler at their first job. Late to the clock? You get naughty points tacked on your personal file. Every second of your day is mapped out by some forecasting and scheduling doofus. Your identity is taken away, and you're viewed as a metric, not a critical thinking employee. It was simply miserable walking in to work every day.

All of this was also done to VERY experienced, tenured folks. CA&P? Process analyst? Business analyst? Trainer? Didn't matter, all types were demoted. It was demeaning and shameful. In the end, it will be SF's loss, as these talented people will find new homes.