Posted On: July 1, 2009, 11:04 am CDT

Posted By: Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas I don't know where to start. I am a long term employee and wish I would have walked away years ago. Things have changed drastically in the last several years and it seems like everyone hates their job at State Farm. When you get on the elevator in the morning the talk is how much you hate your job and how you cannot wait for the end of the day to get here.
When you first begin your career with State Farm the pay sounds really good but the more years you are there the worst it gets. They expect you to write your own performance review and then give you reasons why your percentage is not as high as you would have hoped. They explain it as a piece of a pie and make you feel you are lucky to get the small slice that you did receive even though there are others on your team who do absolutely nothing at all except volunteer for everything they can to keep them out of work, and those are the people who get the really big slice while the rest of us are working our butts off for nothing. There is always some reason why you are not worthy of more. But, for all the hard work we do, I hear management gets a substantial bonus every year plus they still get their performance cash. Doesn't seem fair since we are the little guys who do all the work. We are treated with no respect whatsoever. Someone is always looking over your shoulder and anything you do is never enough. I feel like I am in kindergarten all over again. People will stab you in the back any chance they get including management. Speaking of management. That's a joke. Where is your management, working from home of course. And when we submit a proposal to work a four day work week, management always has an excuse why they need you in the office everyday. I will say your job is pretty secure with State Farm and they are so afraid of being sued that they hardly ever fire anyone for performance issues. Therefore if you do just enough to get you by then you can pretty much feel safe that your job will always be there. If you dont' have a college degree then you can pretty much kiss any type of advancement goodbye. They post for positions but is is the opinion of everyone in the company that they already know who they will promote before the posting ever comes out. I don't know why they haven't been sued before for some of the reasons given why you were not picked for a particular position. Don't get me wrong, there are still a few State Farm Employees that love their jobs. But if you were a fly on the wall and could hear the gossip around the office you would quickly learn that the majority is fed up. There are so many of us who are so close to retirement and just cannot walk away.