Pros
Farmers use to be a great place to work with fantastic Supervisors within the Claims Dept. the supervisors I had while working in Claims were fair, responsive and displayed obvious signs of wanting to work as a team to get the job done. I enjoyed working for Claims at Farmers back in the late 90's
Cons
Once I transfered to the SIU Unit, I was faced with having to deal with Management who always displayed a "Holier Than Thou" atttiude. Annoncements were made in meetings that the manager had a policy of favoritism. Talk about a big morale builder. Investigators were made to work while on vacation if they had no plans of traveling while off. There were actions involving investigators being set up for failure by having their work taken away from them (without them knowing, until after-the-fact). Then the investigator was ultimately temrinated for failing to make monthly goals and having poor performance.Management could care less about their investigators and would stop at nothing to "bury" a person, if they weren't a golden child. There was a lot of backstabbing and managers being two-faced, which was more than obvious. Any issues discussed with H/R resulted in the H/R manager stating "I know nothing about it, so, there's nothing I can do". In essence, the actions of the managers involving favoritism is not only condoned by H/R, but encouraged. Benefits were paid through bi-weekly withdrawls from paychecks however, in certain areas, there were no doctors or dentists to go to. Employees were paying for benefits that didn't exist. There were no words of praise for a job well done. Only when something wasn't the way management wanted it, was when an investigator would catch hell. Management admitted in meetings that they don't give credit where credit is due.