Geico ripoff Macon Georgia

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Monica,

I'm in the same situation as you did you get your profit sharing check if not please respond. Geico tried to say i was let go for misconduct. I ended up winning as i had witnesse's. My ex supervisor just openly lied which helped win my case for unemployment and now i need people who are in the same boat not getting profit sharing! Hope to hear from ex-employee's who got shafted out of profit sharing days before the check was given out!

I disagree with one point

One previous post said that those who dont want to see geico succeed should be fired, or something to thaat effect. I disagree. I work for geico, but i dont care one way or the other about geico's success. I go to work every day for my own personal benefit, and do the job the best I can for my own pride. If geico folds under me, so be it, thats life. If it succeeds, fantastic. Either way it doesnt affect my job performance one iota.

And they certainly don't have the lowest rates

They quoted me $140 more for insurance than my Allstate policy.

Won't last long around here.

ripped off 6 days before profit sharing!

I too was terminated they tried for a long time and finnaly was able to drum something up on me after almost 5 years! and they did it 6 days before profit sharing and i was told by two lawyers that what they did was illegal.

So i plan on pursuing this in court for my profit sharing! they are firing alot of people in the ny office since they opened one upstate ny and in new jersey, and since long island is the most expensive place to live, power land, taxes and what not they are slowly removing people for the smallest things, I am also suing for a hardship since my sup tried every little thing in the book to get rid of me, the company is good to customers but they suck if you have to work for them! ask anyone in the ny office!

I also obtained a letter they circulated they brag how much money they saved getting rid of people for last year it amounted to 6.56 million $$$$ that is about equal to 2000 employees @ $3,000 a piece for profit sharing! yea something to be really proud of! I have not applied for unemployment yet but plan to shortly! good luck out there!

There is no need to make stuff up

You say, I also obtained a letter they circulated they brag how much money they saved getting rid of people for last year it amounted to 6.56 million $$$$ that is about equal to 2000 employees @ $3,000 a piece for profit sharing!

I would like to know if this letter actually states exactly what you said or if you are exaggerating.

First does it say anything about firing or getting rid of people?

Second what about a person who is not vested in their 401k and has found another job or just quit GEICO. Does that letter include them?

You do know what being vested means, don't you?

You say, that is about equal to 2000 employees @ $3,000 a piece for profit sharing! Leaving the assumption they were all fired

Yeah it would be about equal to that, if it happened. Too bad it didn't.

You might be able to fool or discourage people from GEICO, but your not fooling all of us. Obviously you are either making things up or you just don't have a clue how it works.

what's the full story

I too work for GEICO and I can tell you that it's not an easy place to be fired at. Superviors are there to help you meet your goals and not to get rid of you. Besides, GEICO has an open door policy so if you feel that your sup is trying to get rid of you, you can take it to a manger, director, even the VP. So you can't use the excuse of the sup trying to fire you. Also if you can't meet your goals in sales, you could have easy moved to service. I know plenty of people moved to service because of that they were successful in that department. As far as savings, hey I saved a bunch of money by switching to GEICO. State Farm could not even come close to my rate and I had multi-line policy with them. Even though I wasn't in sales, one thing I learned from all my friends that came to service is that there is always a choice to move to a different department. As far as the GEICO or Warren losing money, we wouldn't have any profit sharing at all if that was the case. One last thing, for you to be fired on the spot, most of the time it's because of integrity issues. I know that you will be put on PIP (Personal Improvement Program) if you do not meet your numbers and you have pretty much 9 months to improve your numbers before you are fired. My opinion on this is that you're not telling the full story.

Sounds more like a rant of being fired

My brother works in sales, in the Macon office. He showed me his profit sharing check. Profit being the keyword, if there not making money obviously warren would not share a portion of the profits with the employees.

After reading this I asked him if many people were fired up there recently. He said usually you only get fired in sales if you can't stay on the phone, basically doing the job your paid to do or if you have integrity issues.

He also said he saves quite abit of people money seeing how he sold a policy to 40% of the people he quoted last month.

Not many people by a policy from someone who isn't saving them money, do they?

Great quote though about State Farm, actually what does it mean? They want to beat what about state farm?

You have quite a few comments that don't make any sense, they weren't sure if the company is real? Maybe they thought they were imagining all the commercials.

I hope you find another job soon, but sounds like your mad. So what was the real reason you were fired?

The inside truth The truth is people do get fired from GEICO but it is because it is waranted

The truth is people do get fired from GEICO but it is because it is waranted. I have worked there for many years and have seen people come and go. Most of them are fired for integrity, poor performance,and not showing up. I bet that 90% of the people that post on this website about being fired fit into one of those.

The things you say about GEICO you and I both know are untrue. Every employee of GEICO knows the strong background and backing of GEICO. But maybe that was why you were fired you could not do you job and spent to much time worrying about State Farm.

I am glad they fire people before they get their profit sharing checks because if they are not doing their part to create that profit I don't want to share it with them. Warren didn't get to where he is by giving away money to slackers that don't pull their weight.

GEICO is not a place for people that can't do there fair share. It is not for people who bend the truth and it is not for people that can't be responsible for their own actions.

So all you whiners take a long look in the mirror and you will see who really riped you off then move on!

added remark

In my last post I forgot to add that you should be fired from any sales department when you are glad the customers aren't calling!

a lot of my family time

You're right, Brian. The 15 posts that I made that took me about a minute a piece in relation to GEICO, over the span of two years has really cut into a lot of my family time.

Some insight to GEICO employee practices:

I wanted to pass on some honest insight to address this issue.

First and foremost, in any company with 16000+ Associates, mistakes are (and will continue to be) made. While we do attempt to train our management staff as best we can, there are some members of management that are substandard, and unfortunately, there are circumstances where associates are unfairly terminated. These situations should be pursued, and in many cases, the company should be made to pay damages. This is the reason we have courts, and lawyers, and mechanisms in place to redress grievances, although we would hope to find resolution before we reach the point of termination.

This being said, I believe overall the company is more than fair in its dealings with associates. I have seen far more cases where we have retained associates when we shouldn't have than cases where we have unfairly terminated an associate. The fact that we have profit sharing at all speaks volumes of how management feels about the employees of the company. GEICO has no responsibility to share its profits with the associates, and associates have no "right" to expect it. Also, if the company makes a decision to terminate an associate, does it truly have a responsibility to wait until after profit sharing is dispersed? Of course not.

I am truly sorry for those that are terminated unfairly, and in those situations, I do hope you get your fair restitution. But many of these postings include wild accusations about conspiracies to intentionally mistreat associates which are obvious fallacies and to any casual observation make the submitter appear ridiculous. The management of this company is not so ignorant as to ignore the fact that such treatment is counterproductive, and that no lastng benefit can be gained from such practices.

To allege that associates are fired to avoid a profit sharing payoff doesn't really make much sense when you consider that if the company wanted to save money, it could eliminate profit sharing entirely, or change the matrix to pay out less. Also consider,the pay out is directly related to growth and combined underwriting ratio, so the profitability of the company is the determining factor in how much is paid out. In years we do poorly we get little or nothing, in years we do well, we get more. In fact: A few years ago we deserved nothing from profit sharing, but the company paid a 4% bonus to everyone anyway. Not the kind of practice you would expect from a company that allegedly fires associates to avoid a payout is it?

I know there are many associates who feel they are terminated because of a personal vendetta, I won't say it never happens, but I feel about that the same way I feel when my 9 year old explains his grades are bad because "The teacher doesn't like me." And let me be the first to tell you that a lawyer telling you that you have a case is not always the best justification for the validity of your grievance.

Is it fair for GEICO to expect its associates to come to work on time, display a positive attitude, be a team player, work to improve performance, and have a genuine concern for servicing its customers? I have never seen an associate who displays these characteristics be unsuccessful, and have never seen a supervisor or manager who would not gladly welcome them on their team.

I am proud to work for GEICO, as are the overwhelming majority of the associates who work for the company. Is our management perfect? Of course not, but they are not a collection of greedy heartless imbeciles conspiring to save a few dollars by terminating innocent hardworking associates to avoid paying profit sharing, and they certainly don't meet late at night and say "Gee,I really don't like Joe Blow, lets make up some stuff so we can fire him."

Tit for Tat - Employment Commission found that GEICO wrongly terminated me

Well, I also was fired from GEICO oddly enough right before profit sharing time. In my case though the Virginia Employment Commission found that GEICO wrongly terminated me as they had no just cause. So on to the lawyer it goes in regards to GEICO doing the right thing and paying me my share of the profits I earned.

P.s. David sure seems to have alot of time on his hands to defend GEICO

Kudos To You from Woodbury Ex-Employee

Robert,

If you and other people were fired be assured that Geico will try to fight your right to collect Unemployment benefits. I am going through this right now as a former Geico employee in Woodbury. Not only was I fired 27 days before Profit sharing checks were given out (because of my Diet Pill taking vengeful Supervisor) they are trying to stop me from getting my unemployment benefits. Many Broadcasting Stations are very interested in doing a story on this because I am not the only ex employee that have come to them for the same problem. If you are interested let me know.

Enough already...

So all the other regions have had their responses to the Geico bs. The rebuttals are nice in defense of our lovely employer but who are we really kidding. We WORK for this company. We know how it really works. We know all the problems with upper management. We know that HR is so jacked up they would get screwed in a lawsuit if someone actually had the nerve to file suit. We know that anytime a class action suit is mentioned and people find out about it other people mysteriously start getting fired- that happened to 3 people in my region. We also know that Geico has little people like sitting in an office responding to posts like this.
Is Geico a good company to work for? Depends on what they want from you. If they don't like you, regardless of your performance, they will find a way to get rid of you.

My whole opinion of Geico changed recently. I was about to make a complaint with HR about a recent problem when I was told BY MY SUPERVISOR AS DIRECTED BY MANAGEMENT to drop the formal complaint i was going to file or my application for promotion would be pulled.

I never knew threatening an employee was the way to drop an issue Geico KNEW they were in the wrong for.

So I played their little game and guess what- I got the promotion. Go figure.

I learned that Geico is a very shady place. How a company could threaten to pull my job post one week and then promote me the next is beyond me. But hey, welcome to Geico.

As far as all the jacked up claims handling- the public is just misinformed about claims- they don't understand. I ignore their comments. But the comments on here from employees- those are true for the most part.

Why its your fault!

GEICO is a wonderful place to work. The people for the most part are nice, friendly and helpful. The supervisors go out of there way to help. Sometimes bad people do get good jobs. The difference is that eventually the bad really does show through. There are 3 reasons why a person is fired at GEICO, dependability (showing up to work), ethics (lying-stealing or cheating) and poor performance. Sometimes you can put on a good fron for an interview and maintain it for a while, but eventually it shows. Who wants to work with someone that doesnt want GEICO to be a success? Only the sore losers that couldnt maintain the standards.

Maybe you got fired for not hitting your goals?

I am a Geico employee and you do not just get fired for no apparent reason. Maybe you weren't hitting your goals, and if not, well then that could explain your termination. If you worked for Geico you would also know that we do have offices that people can go to, and deal with a Geico representative. Perhaps its just sour grapes that you got fired for not performing? And just a side note, you would think that if you are in sales, which includes bonuses, you would want people calling in, not the other way around. Perhaps sales isn't your forte.