An insurance company now wishes to lecture us

[JustHereWithMyPopcorn]

Aviva shared these lovely tweets today. I am actually insured with them but I will not be renewing. And they are not bothered by customers leaving, clearly.

I don’t think they have actually deleted it because you can still get to it here: twitter.com/avivauk/status/1198992118913622019?s=21

But it’s not showing on their timeline so is it hidden? I don’t know enough about how Twitter works to understand how I can view it via the above link but not see it on their page!

Can you just see ones with replies?

I'd be raging if I were Katie, the tweets from other members of the Aviva team show that this was an intentional strategy but rather than hold their hands up and admit to an appalling failure of common sense they're chucking her under the bus.

And also not just chucking her under the bus but implying she's drunk at work. It's the exact opposite of professional and completely unfair for a team manager to do to a junior colleague rather than accepting responsibility.

I’m afraid my sympathy for Katie is as real as my belief that people can change sex. 🤷🏻‍♀️ They may have given her permission to run that thread, but the words came out of her mouth, so to speak.

Can you link to the tweet implying she's drunk at work? I can't make head nor tail of the whole thing.

Jacob
twitter.com/AvivaUK/status/1200049921107406848

Have @AvivaUK been hacked?? The tweets are increasingly unprofessional and bizarre. My personal favourite.

Wow. This is like a masterclass in unprofessional.

They will be citing this in future marketing and customer services courses (and no one will believe it)

I am completely shocked, what a mess. Is no-one senior paying attention?

Oh my! How bizarre.

Meanwhile, their actuaries will continue beetling away in the basement, calculating and circulating to all Aviva agents the various mortality risk factors according to biological sex.

FFS.

And now a "heavy night", wine emoji and winky face?

Again, FFS.

It becomes clearer, "Ms Darlington, who became group chief risk officer at Aviva in 2015, is one of her industry’s most prominent senior executives promoting LGBT+"rights.
www.ft.com/content/79578b86-cc75-11e8-8d0b-a6539b949662

I have quite a lot of business with Aviva I'll write to them tomorrow since they've not bothered to answer my tweets

It becomes clearer, "Ms Darlington, who became group chief risk officer at Aviva

I have a friend who works in their head office. They certainly ramped it up for pride this year. He went to quite a lot of stuff they put on. He's not actually gay, of cause...... 🤷‍♀️

Tom and Kate should book a room together methinks...

I don't agree with Katie's views but i am horrified by how her colleagues have thrown her under the bus. They basically said 'don't worry the poor little woman got confused' Katie if you are reading this do you now get why we fight for women's rights?

It’s a pity. We all know that trangenderism is going to collapse into a heap of litigation. However we want to happen before to many organisations, sports etc reach positions they cannot row back from, and before too many lives are damaged or destroyed.

Insurance companies in many ways were our best hope. We wanted to assess the risks early and prevent, say, 16 year olds with XX chromosomes playing competitive sport against smaller girls. Or to refuse to insure prison placing TG sex offenders in women’s prisons without stringent risk analysis, or to ensure that teenage girls were provided with safe toilet facilities in nightclubs.

But Aviva seems to have decided that wokeness comes before reality.

Insurance companies in many ways were our best hope. We wanted to assess the risks early and prevent, say, 16 year olds with XX chromosomes playing competitive sport against smaller girls.

I wouldn't necessarily take a few tweets by the communications team as evidence of the way the actual business of insurance is being run. (Speaking as someone who works on the financial side of a large insurer). These are people whose job is to present the nice fluffy brand, who will have little understanding of actuarial statistics, managing risk etc which will steer pricing and underwriting decisions more than any PR considerations. As with a lot of large companies, they may churn out all the "worthy" corporate cliches to the public (and their employees), but there will be plenty of employees quietly pulling a sceptical face and getting on with doing their job professionally.

any one have a link to the FT article - it is behind a wall for me. thanks

The trick with the ft is to Google.

Type in keywords like FT Darlington Aviva and the article comes up without a paywall

Great tip! Thank you!

The laces campaign is to highlight homophobia in sport - particularly males sport where no active professional footballers for example are 'out' - but goes right down to LGBT people not feeling welcome to play in team sports with hetero people. My DM asked me why there was a 'gay' rugby team in our town, why did they feel the need to be in a gay team rather than just a 'normal' team and I had to point out that the men formed the team because they weren't allowed to join the other teams as they didn't want to paly with openly gay men.

If that makes you want to leave AVIVA then you go for it OP - I doubt that you'll be missed,,,