So with a second MCO opening in Arizona for CA claims and being told the office is big enough for over 1000 people, how long before enough people take the move package and go before they start closing offices in CA. I can only wonder.
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And, it also sounds like you have the option of a job in Arizona.
Words of wisdom.
We all have to be adaptable, if we don’t we will lose. If all we know is claims, We can find another job. But being open to other things give you that many more options. This is nothing that hasn’t happened before and nothing that won’t happen again in the future.
First, I am at no risk of unemployment. If my job were at risk due to strategies to maximize efficiency and profitability (and, being led by my boss who was doing his/her job) I’d get it. It’s a for profit business, not a charity looking to employ as many people as possible.
Grow up. Move on.
" the leader SHOULD be making decisions that maximize his/her bonus. The fact that it might not align with YOUR personal interests is immaterial." Wow someone is s---ing down the kick off Kool Aid. We can only hope you belch out that jargon with as much gusto when you face unemployment. Wait, I know your reply already, " I have mad insurance skills and merely have to simply pluck another job from the market waiting to hire me. I will be ok."
No. Common sense.
Why be anonymous? fear?
Correct, and if senior leadership got the bonus metrics right (meaning they drive the performance of the claims organization and contribute to the success of the company), than the leader SHOULD be making decisions that maximize his/her bonus. The fact that it might not align with YOUR personal interests is immaterial. He/she is doing a great job if their bonus is max’d out.
Do you even have a clue about the metrics/results that trigger your leaders bonus ? I’m guessing no, just like everyone else that posts on this site about leaders making decisions for the purpose of “maximizing their bonus”. You have no idea.
Most RCL’s that I have met in the NE are the same, their main concern is self preservation and making sure they get the maximum bonus.
There is nothing that can be done about the company pulling out of California. But that is not what’s making people from SFV run for the door. It’s management. The average loss for other offices in the CA CSA this year is about 6 people. SFV is at 19. The management team ignored repeated expressions from us regarding moral and the distance between management and the front line. Now that people are leaving the management seems to “care” now, but most of us get the feeling it’s just an act of self preservation. We talk to other adjusters and they feel differently about the mood in their office. For us in SFV, we don’t feel like our leader cares for us the way that other RCLs care in other offices. People that have transferred (including managers) say that it’s just a different environment in their new office and that’s all from the RCL! So yes, everyone is worried about what’s going to happen in CA, but some teams have a better way of dealing with it.
The “reason this s happening” is an untenable and toxic employment environment the state of California created for businesses. The Bednar class action, during which several hundred employees benefited from hundreds of millions in award money, was the first strike. Pending class action litigation which could potentially cost the company a couple of hundred million more is the final strike. No reason to do business there with that legal risk, when you can do it from somewhere else.
If you’re looking for someone to blame, look to the employees that took the money in these lawsuits and the dirtbag attorney’s that got rich off these lawsuits.
If employees migrate to Arizona (or voluntarily terminate) at a pace faster than was modeled, you may see stay bonus’s. There is a precedent.
Camelback LOL. I give it a few weeks a month tops? ( hoping ) he said you could move tomorrow if you wanted so they are trying to see how many people will move or leave Allstate in general to figure out their finances. All about the money.