Posted By Tex Walker on 30 Aug 2011 01:58 AM
So now I'm hearing stories of the adjusters, (hundreds) being sent home after some drove across the country to meet the demands of the IA's vendors staging area to be there within 48 hrs , only to be told, thanks but sorry we didnt have the claim volume that was expected this time. Thanks again for your support. If this wasnt predicted I don't know what is... 2011 IA Vendors Rule # 1 Always leave home or quit your job without claims in the que, or claim in hand !!
Tex, I hear what you are saying and to some extent you are correct. However, with that being said it seems like you and others are almost mocking some of these folks for driving across the country at a vendors request.
What do you want these guys to do?
I mean they have deployed a ton of rookies and although I am blown away that so many vendors pulled the trigger so fast ( some cases where rookies were at the site prior to landfall of the damn storm) these folks don't have the standing nor the experience to demand a minimum number of claims before they deploy.
When I was deployed to my first storm in 2004, I didn't question the IA firm, I simply showed up when and where they told me to be. Come on Tex, you were new once , weren't you?
What these vendors have done is no different than what these newer adjusters have done, showing the powers that be that they are ready willing and able to handle anything that comes their way. This industry has been in a dry spell for so long that the IA firms are just as desperate as the rank and file and therefore pulled the trigger too soon.
Again, newer adjusters don't have the standing to make ANY demands. Tex you know that, we can make those demands because we have already proven what we can do.
There are certain IA firms that have indeed sent people home, I can only pray that they pay these folks for their time because if they don't, many of these new adjusters are gonna be destroyed financially as most probably had to borrow beg and scrape up the funds to get onsite.
With all this being said, there is more work than you think Tex, I am headed out tonight. Whilst there will be both wind and flood claims, the lion's share of claims are gonna come from flood. So some of us are gonna have work for a few months.
Tex, hopefully you have enough experience to be NFIP certified if not then well there is always next year.
There are many saying that the media overhyped Irene but to that I say "Why don't you ask the families of the 46 souls that were lost if Irene was overhyped!"
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