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Progressive to add 1,000 jobs in Austin
Austin American Statesman ^ | 1/24/19 | Lori Hawkins

Posted on 01/24/2019 8:56:25 PM PST by Blue House Sue

Hundreds more jobs -- this time non-tech -- are coming to Austin.

Auto insurance company Progressive announced Thursday that it plans to create 1,000 jobs in Austin as part of a national hiring push to add 10,000 workers in 2019.

The new Austin positions will be in sales, customer service and claims at Progressive’s contact center, which is off East Ben White Boulevard. The center is the company’s main bilingual service facility, and some of the positions will be for workers who speak English and Spanish.

(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...


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KEYWORDS: austin; insurance; jobs; soros; texas
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To: beethovenfan

Progressives love jobs. They just hate business.


21 posted on 01/24/2019 11:12:28 PM PST by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: beethovenfan

But the name is a reference to American communism.


22 posted on 01/24/2019 11:54:39 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: beethovenfan

This company is both, IIRC


23 posted on 01/25/2019 12:32:21 AM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: laplata

She’s just an actress. She improvised the ‘Flo’ character based on her mother’s personality.


24 posted on 01/25/2019 12:34:29 AM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Blue House Sue
Progressive can go to hell. I was with them 10 years, zero tickets, zero accidents, zero claims. they kept raising my rates a little at a time until I had to pull the plug. I now have 3 times the coverage at 1/2 the cost with another company.

I hate the name too

25 posted on 01/25/2019 12:46:27 AM PST by KTM rider ( .......than to post and remove all doubt)
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To: Blue House Sue

If we can keep the “Progressive” b*tches contained in Austin we’ll be able to keep an eye on their commie asses.


26 posted on 01/25/2019 1:07:34 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Pelham

The real Flo is Polly Holliday.


27 posted on 01/25/2019 5:52:37 AM PST by wally_bert (We're low on dimes in fun city.)
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To: Blue House Sue

Insurance companies rip us off. Look how many commercials on TV are insurance related. Cost big $$$ for all those commercials and we the policy holders are footing the bills.


28 posted on 01/25/2019 6:08:32 AM PST by tflabo
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To: Blue House Sue

These days, I can’t understand “English speakers”.


29 posted on 01/25/2019 7:02:46 AM PST by Does so (Build the Cpl Ronil Singh Memorial Wall...A Legal Immigrant...)
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To: Pelham

I should have said “In the commercials she is one nasty piece of work”.


30 posted on 01/25/2019 7:34:53 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Blue House Sue

Not good news. More liberals.


31 posted on 01/25/2019 7:35:38 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: wally_bert

Progressive can “kiss my grits”.


32 posted on 01/25/2019 7:36:39 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Notthereyet

Thank you for the insight. Makes sense and it is sad.

I have been fortunate to work for companies that were owned by conservatives and most of the employees were also conservative. I suppose I have been sheltered. I admire conservatives who are surrounded by wacko leftists and carry on.


33 posted on 01/25/2019 7:38:39 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: KTM rider

Yes. We were with Mercury and they raised our rates a lot one year. We had had NO filings for a couple of years (not even for glass which is necessary here in the Southwest). I asked the Rep why our rates went up. She said ‘everybody got a rate increase’. We went to AAA and got our Home and Auto for $1,000 less/year. Not EVERYBODY raised their rates.


34 posted on 01/25/2019 7:46:08 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: dfwgator

I hope Mel Sharples didn’t make them.


35 posted on 01/25/2019 7:46:22 AM PST by wally_bert (We're low on dimes in fun city.)
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To: Blue House Sue

Progressive is another Soros entity. I would never go to Progressive.


36 posted on 01/25/2019 7:46:35 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: originalbuckeye

“Progressive is another Soros entity. I would never go to Progressive.”

Perhaps, but the jobs are good news.


37 posted on 01/25/2019 7:58:46 AM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: hinckley buzzard
Peter Lewis was a prog weirdo but he was good to his people and they remember him fondly.

Of course his people remember him fondly. With all the jobs he created in Cleveland, especially on the east side, he probably hired half of the people fired when the manufacturing plants in town were sold to conglomerates who moved everything overseas years ago.

And he did give a lot of money to the retirement communities, so there's that. Nevertheless, he was pretty far left. Not Occasionally Coherent-level, but close.

38 posted on 01/25/2019 7:59:02 AM PST by ssaftler (Beam me up, Scotty! There's no intelligent life left in this country!)
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To: laplata

I can’t stand Flo and always change the channel whenever a Progressive ad comes on.


39 posted on 01/25/2019 8:36:54 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Same here. There are many commercials that are stupid and cater to the PC crowd. Metrosexual men, for instance, are everywhere.


40 posted on 01/25/2019 8:42:07 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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