It’s no secret State Fund has needed to make constructive changes for years, even a casual observer could quickly identify the hypocrisies embedded in State Fund’s ethos, but it took an intervention (aka criminal Investigation) by the Department of Insurance, the San Francisco District Attorney’s office and the California Highway Patrol of State Fund before State Fund was forced to take responsibility for their actions, but State Fund has struggled with forced ethical ‘sobriety’ they justify lapses of discretion the same way a recovering alcoholic might try to justify just one glass of merlot with dinner “it’s not like it’s hard liquor” I suppose that means the employee/employer relationship is one of co-dependency. The analogy fits – State Fund employees have had to defend or hide their employers behavior as they endured one executive scandal after another.
As for me, I felt State Fund was not defined by the douche-bags at the top, but by the hardworking frontline employees. I philosophically took ownership of State Fund and worked to make a difference. The flaw in my philosophy was the lack of reciprocity. I found out on Tuesday that I, and 699 of my co-workers will need to choose between ‘voluntary’ displacement or voluntary lay off.
To say we were shocked is putting it mildly. Why were the supervisors and program managers responsible for the hundred million dollar internal debacles revealed in the audit reports still safe in the ranks?
I think there’s an alternate mission statement at State Fund: CYA.
CYA would explain why I’ve not heard one executive take responsibility for the lay-off decision – when the suits from Home Office broke the news to San Diego they swore they “just found out about it on Monday.” CYA.
When I leave State Fund it will be with the satisfaction of knowing I made a difference and that I did so alongside individuals with so much integrity, intellect, kindness and wit.
I hope every one my co-workers joins me in choosing (in)voluntary lay-off, we deserve better and we’ll have no trouble finding it.
It’s no secret State Fund has needed to make constructive changes for years, even a casual observer could quickly identify the hypocrisies embedded in State Fund’s ethos, but it took an intervention (aka criminal Investigation) by the Department of Insurance, the San Francisco District Attorney’s office and the California Highway Patrol of State Fund before State Fund was forced to take responsibility for their actions, but State Fund has struggled with forced ethical ‘sobriety’ they justify lapses of discretion the same way a recovering alcoholic might try to justify just one glass of merlot with dinner “it’s not like it’s hard liquor” I suppose that means the employee/employer relationship is one of co-dependency. The analogy fits – State Fund employees have had to defend or hide their employers behavior as they endured one executive scandal after another.
As for me, I felt State Fund was not defined by the douche-bags at the top, but by the hardworking frontline employees. I philosophically took ownership of State Fund and worked to make a difference. The flaw in my philosophy was the lack of reciprocity. I found out on Tuesday that I, and 699 of my co-workers will need to choose between ‘voluntary’ displacement or voluntary lay off.
To say we were shocked is putting it mildly. Why were the supervisors and program managers responsible for the hundred million dollar internal debacles revealed in the audit reports still safe in the ranks?
I think there’s an alternate mission statement at State Fund: CYA.
CYA would explain why I’ve not heard one executive take responsibility for the lay-off decision – when the suits from Home Office broke the news to San Diego they swore they “just found out about it on Monday.” CYA.
When I leave State Fund it will be with the satisfaction of knowing I made a difference and that I did so alongside individuals with so much integrity, intellect, kindness and wit.
I hope every one my co-workers joins me in choosing (in)voluntary lay-off, we deserve better and we’ll have no trouble finding it.