Heard that State Farm is announcing a mandatory buy out of all Legacy PTO banks. Is it true?

Word on the street is SMs and CMs will eventually be coming into office, two weeks a monthnit seems. It will be trickling down to the rest of us in due time. Don't know about ya'll but I ain't coming into the office, they were pushing it with even... — read more 

Hey all you corporate SFers out there. Do you know if IT is moving back to south if it’s in the office or just every day or like we have now come in once a week or a month or quarter preferably never. What I’m saying is is there gonna be a... — read more 

haven't been here for a few months and I'm surprised to see how few posts there the last few months. We'll I just come here to say, if you want more SF reading enjoyment there's a kinda old and still open thread on reddit if you want to read unhappy... — read more 

Is there any truth to HCL giving bonuses to rebadgers they want to retain? If they did, those who did not get the bonus are getting cut?

SF is removing EV charging stations from its parking decks at Corporate and Corporate South, and at Hubs, due to fire hazards that “cannot be mitigated”. Isn’t charging these EVs fundamental? If it’s such a fire risk to charge them, then nobody... — read more 

You picked one heck of a company to rebadge people to. One lie after another. Now several people received half a pay check and are being told they will get the other half when they leave the company. A whole week of pay just being held back. ... — read more 

EIP just dropped 16% points in the past month...... And is now only 81%. We are doomed!

2022 and 2023 recording breaking $28 billion net underwriting loss….so here we are 2024 almost the end of the 3rd qtr….are we gonna be $1o billion loss for a total of $38 billion ? Any guess ?

I've been gone from State Farm for more than two years, so I'm curious, has the management finally succeeded in slashing their way to profitability, or are they still working on it?

I’ve been in the insurance industry for 9 years. Do I love insurance? No Am I passionate about insurance? Not necessarily But what I am passionate about is financial freedom and this is a great career path to achieving that. People will tell you... — read more 

All of you seem like really nice people. I wish I could meet you all. I'm sure we would be friends.

“Let’s go to a stewardship model in all of claims. Then we set the workload and the standards so high that no one can meet all the expectations, but we can use performance issues as a pretext to target anyone we want whenever we want. Especially... — read more 

These raises would be nice if they didn’t always monitor our idle time and other methods to micromanage us. That’s nice you paid a couple more bucks but i can’t even go to the bathroom without getting anxious because i haven’t clicked my mouse in 91... — read more 

Modernization is bringing me down. The raise this week was pretty much the ONLY positive thing that’s happened in my job in 2024. Who decided “modernization,” the way we are doing it, was a good idea? I work in billing. I get screamed at daily by... — read more 

You better get ready! The reason why you just got the extra money is because Exec is going to start bringing people back into the hubs more starting 1st quarter 2025. You will get the announcement during the 4th quarter this year. Remember, Execs... — read more 

I’ve never seen so many job postings in Bloomington for so many claims jobs, was there a lot of recent turnover? It look like ever segment in claims is being posted.

Who has the details

The big announcement that people are hearing about is real. Today claim managers filled in second line leaders and on Thursday team managers will find out. Team managers can start releasing information on aug 2nd. It’s good for some people but sc--ws... — read more 

Anything I missed today?

Probably just a rumor…but is there a “big announcement “ coming on July 31? If so, hope it’s some good news for the org!

Does that mean we're safe?

I think it is funny how many rebadged employees SF has hired back. More proof of the catastrophic success. Suprised people want to go back.

No posts for the whole weekend?!?!?! Wow!!!

So we now get another accounting bean counter to take the helm…..2 yrs of record breaking underwriting losses ($28 billion)….premiums continue to go up…. Robert Yi’s operating business plan under the guidance of Tipsford failed miserably…. Agents are... — read more 

As a manager in SIU, it is extremely important for our people to be able to go to the field and investigate claims. As of the end of the second quarter, all company cars were eliminated and those employees who were classified as proximity will now be... — read more 

Do you know why birds sing in the morning? Because they dont have to go to effn work! Its great to be a bird!

Memo coming out tomorrow - all of in- language ret 1 will be outsourced - the department will no longer be internal - employees are being offered positions elsewhere - this is just a start - soon ECC as a whole will not exist.

Today is Tuesday and once again ECS is degraded. For those who know what will it take before the powers that be decide enough is enough and kick HCL to the curb?

ECS down this afternoon, TM telling us to take calls ...

So we get rid of this executive bean counting failure in a week so 5 months based on $14 billion a year underwriting losses over the last two years…..which will he about $5.8 billion so far for 2024. And they will compensate him how much for his... — read more 

Letters went out today informing folks of their new annual salary. After receiving the highest review rating possible, I have now moved into a higher tax bracket thanks to my six tenths of a percent raise. Drinks not on me. :)

Mike M opened by saying how sorry he was for sc--wing everyone and then Andy followed by saying the sc--wing will continue until there is a 75% off-shore to 25% on-shore from the current 50/50 or so. For the love of God just leave HCL and let State... — read more 

This is a sham. Post anything critical and sf gets it deleted. It's basically an extortion racket where you provide the blackmail info so layoff gets paid.

But you can’t get a fair col raise adjustment.

Im in a tech department that you would think would have a slightly younger work force. not the case, everyone I work with is 50+. and we are only replacing these older employees with a handful of interns who are converted to full time every year. I... — read more 

Retention 1 and 2 are going away. Out sourcing and changing hours of operation to 7 am to 7 pm. People in Retention are being told to move to another Dept and quickly. The laws do not allow all of Retention work to be solely in India. You can not... — read more 

I’m not leaving State Farm, I’m making BANK working here and another place. All possible to my Engineering Manger. What a joke. They don’t know cr-p about coding. They are making more money so why can’t I. I’m raking in north of $200,000 easily... — read more 

Smart Person: we’re changing hours of operation , so you may lose your job here , However you can apply in another department. Rep: what hours does the other department have Smart person : same hours as the ones you can’t work here anymore . Only... — read more