Geico ripoff Macon Georgia

I am sorry this is for employee #7 Paul

I would love to believe what you said and I would love the oppurtunity to show me how and I can only mention a few because the list is a mile long. The sad part is this is a story about my insurance co. Guess what its Geico when you talk about supervisors if you truly believe then I would like a chance for you to counter everthing that I know to be true. I tell you what if you can get my statement about I would not even call it a accident. I have the true taped statement I gave Geico only problem is what they have on record is a doctored up tape. This is a true statement you do not have to beleive it. But could you answer me this one have you ever heard of someone that's doesn't have Geico and never even called her insurance co. that she had a accident to get paid for damages that or could not have been made by a 350 lbs motorcycle that was just rolled back onto my bike I only have a few scratches and if she didn't panic and jump her car forward there would not even have been a scratch but 6 -8 day after the accident she had a check from you Geico. I always liked Geico but 9 months of lies and bogus tapes and etc. is enough are you in agreement. I have never said a word against Geico but 13 days ago I was in the worst accident I ever don't remember I was out cold. I was lucky I have a severe head, neck, back and crushed hips. I will never recover from head injury everybody dragging there feet. 5 or more days Geico paid a lady over $600 and I have injuries that may never get addressed I have full blown coverage on my motorcycle and my wife's car. I would bet you could not get me together on the phone to anybody in corporate! Now this is nothing maybe you are not seeing the big picture or make me a liar please I'm serious.

this is not a bad letter if I made it out to be forgive me I want my life back and I want to beleive in my insurance company again I am very sincere and my apoligy.

GARY CAISSE(((ROR redacted)))

That comment was right out of the manual. Are you sure your not Ashley Mancin. I have got evidence coming out of the wazoo the lies and little thing they do so well falsefy documents and tape interviews etc. I don't have that kind of time to put it all together but anybody who wants to act on what I have I will gladly proof to you before you waste your time on some nut job that has nothing better to do I waited 9 months for geico to set things right. I think I have been more that patients I say put up or shut up I'll put up my e-mail and phone # I will be glad to let this web site give it to a legitamite person like reporters especially and lawyers I am no gold digger but how much stress it to much before your only option is a lawyer. I bet my story is long and exposes a lot of corruption. The sad part is Geico is set up to never ever get past Macon Georgia office and that's were it all begins. Anybody who lives in Georgia and has talked to anybody other than the Macon office please tell me how you did it. I still have to believe that this is not the way a big company like Geico works. You can't get this far and run your insurance co. like some backwoods boiler room.

I personnally can tell you that the reason they got fired is because they have integrity and was tired of lying to people because of their so called superiors and if anyone of Geico people or the one's i'll tell you about want to dispute any of this. I am going to tell the truth and can back it up!!! I will guarentee they can't and won't. This is a guess but these people probaly had to sign a cofidence agreement. How dare anybody make statements. When what goes on with us policy holders is criminal and they should be thrown in Prison and accountable for their actions. I am 54 years old  I am on disability and it wasn't my fault I not only get a ticket but I get backed into by a fake college student that tells the drolling policeman I am a college student and I not use to this town.I looked her up she been living here for quit some time and worked several jobs in this town and never went to this College or High School a cronic lier But on a public road or highway never had a accident and only1 ticket you can get an offical to look that up I don't have anything to hide. I was riding my motocycle coming out of the mall parking lot there is one continous lane and this girl was stoped with nobody in front of her but I noticed right away and stoped 10 -15 feet behind her and waited. Then she must have wokeup, finished her lipstick, or was finished talking on the phone I don't know don't care I had enough sense to stop and wait. There's to many people out there like that to upset me because I am to busy driving and being aware that I am not the only person on the road! So she takes off. and starts to turn right she out of my line of sight I glanced slightly to the left just insticnt as I was turning back I had just pulled my clutch in to go. My feet were still on the ground fortunetly because out of the corner of my eye I saw something I pulled the clutch in just in time to be knocked to the left and then pulled right. It happened so fast that I honestly could not tell you what happened. I was 10 to 15 feet behind her before she took off and I was about 6feet from where I was originally? I was not moving but like I said it happened so fast that I was able to respond only to pull in clutch and at a slight incline could not figure out how my bike was moved at all. Not until the next day when I inspected the slight damage and figured that there was only one way. Back to seen of crime I was pushed left then right my front fender not tire fender was scraped on right side of fender my fairing had a slight indent and scatches going  both ways up and then angled down. I have a 360 lbs bike and her car is in the thousands of pounds long story short my insurance co. GEICO THOSE WONDERFUL PEOPLE THAT CAN DO NO WRONG. Again Geico is my insurance co. She never called her insurance co. Guess who got money for I guess for having no damage to her car within 6 -8 days she was paid over $600 dollars. I know I see you scatching your head right Geico the wonder co. Paid somebody that has no insurance with them money and I believe it could be some kind of record for being paid for just being stupid? But 9 months later I still don't have an estimate on my bike? I am still fighting the courts because there case was if she was paid I must be guilty. Without a supena she was there at my ticket hearing and was called up 3 times to be asked are you sure you got paid. I am calling anybody out that thinks that this is not 100% true. When I got home I asked GEICO THE WONDER COMPANY why have they been lieing to me for a month because the girl admitted she got paid and you have told me over 30 times you haven't even talked to her yet. Oh you didn't know she was paid etc. I blew a gasket. this is nothing there is not enough money in this world to put a 54 year old disabled person through this and this was just the first month. How dare you defend this kind of trash. I am proud to know there are peope out there that say enough is enough. And the only reason I called geico was because of there commercials. And don' think State Farm is no picnic and her insurance co. Allstate did the same dirty little trick on me when after 6 months I call just to make sure she was insured to drive that car with the washed title for the VIN # OF THAT CAR. For the people with integrity I salute you. THANK YOU FOR HAVING THE GUTS TO STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT AND HOW COULD ANYBODY THINK THAT THERE'S NOTCRIMANIL GOINGS ON I FORGIVE YOU. But if anybody wants to go toe to toe on this. I be glad to blow the lid right off of the last 9 months and that goes for the city to.

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

Won't last long around here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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!

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?

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.