Marketing, quality, operations, VPs, and the contracts teams have all been affected. Positions have been consolidated, and some work has been outsourced overseas. It’s still ongoing, and word around the office is that sales could be next.
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@1tr
Like someone mentioned in the thread, WC with inferiority complex, does not want to be challenged although she says challenge accepted! This environment makes her feel good, important and superior. That’s all it is- not sales, not profit, not products.
So many people have “left” or “retired” in the last month, mostly all folks with great institutional knowledge. Leadership appears to be yes-people all the way no challenge to status quo. Inept charlatan VPs running what was auto and advanced materials it’s pretty scary
anymore of the nonsensical #challengeaccepted?
Why would it "stop soon"? It hasn't stopped yet, has it?
@1dp why do you say that? I genuinely thought today was a good townhall seeing more examples of real things happening in the different teams. What makes you think Directors should be afraid…. Do you mean of getting let go? With all the ongoing layoffs, I see employees here scared, but I am hopeful it will stop soon with the other positives underway. No?
The team morales is all time low now.
To directors and above, be afraid. Very afraid..
This is the end
Hold your breath and count to ten
Feel the Earth move and then
Hear my heart burst again
For this is the end
I've drowned and dreamt this moment
So overdue, I owe them
Swept away, I'm stolen
Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
At Skyfall
At Skyfall
IT US based contractors going to be replaced by their own people in home country. They probably think shoud have stayed back there
@156 Seems odd that the Woodbury DA hasn’t charged you yet. The link to 3M is incontrovertible.
@153 You’re an id--t. Go back to trolling on X
Ya’ll are going out of business- should have left by now
@14b "Pushing boundaries" AKA a whirlwind of legally and ethically questionable deals to pull revenue forward.
Post from TheLayoff.com
The TEBG ESC SVP is flying around the globe and asking sites to push boundaries. They can push themselves as they stand to gain stock options.
Since there is zero incentive to do innovative work these days, 3M will continue to play catch up rather than lead from the front.
Which VP ?
Or you can acquire a company, assume you know better than they did, make a bunch of changes, and never get the same level of results. Rinse and repeat.
@p9
No more can 3M do 20 years research for a product. They need to collaborate with start up where they do it more efficiently and scale-up here for fast product launches. I don’t think any of it will happen in the current status
20 years for a launch isn’t bad as long as you have a pipeline full of them for continuous launches. Most certainly 99 percent have been destroyed to “save money”.
@jg
Yes!!! Still the same problem exists. Hope at least now they scale/up and launch!!!! You cannot take 20 years for a new product realization …. Only in 3M. Wonder why we are suffering …. As a company …..????
@jg 10+ is underestimated. 20+ is what it is. I worked with that scientist who conceived the idea!
@a6 EBO is not new, it’s been around for over 10+ years
@dj They're adding more people to the corporate separation management group and building up teams for that in IT and finance.
Only a matter of time.
Heard of one today in quality.
Wonder Why a few unexpected (the pillers and poops of 3M) ‘intention to retire’ at around the same time of the day
Why do you think TEBG is going to be spun off?
@cw yes, but aren't we hitting those numbers these days??
@cz BB loves using his psyops techniques on the worker bees. Make people live in fear of getting a mandatory "appointment" when they sign on from home on a Friday morning. That way, BB's henchmen and women only have to face the (soon to be former) employee online via camera. And read from a monologue scripted "exit" interview. What a dreadful place (hades hole) this once great company has fallen into. Even Roman wasn't this bad.
What BB doesn't comprehend is that 1000s of employees have already checked out while drawing a paycheck and are quiet quitting - more than negating what savings were made with the layoffs. I wonder who the next BB external hire will come from? Another Florida yacht club buddy?
@d1 only DMSD has some thing unique.
EMSD, AdMD, Automotive can all be sold anytime
TEBG is about to be spun off.
It’s exhausting and demoralizing watching colleagues vanish one after another with no real explanation. The constant fear of “who’s next?” hangs over every meeting and Slack message. Leadership stays silent or offers vague reassurances, leaving the rest of us in the dark, updating our resumes in secret while trying to pretend everything is fine. Morale isn’t just low—it’s shattered. Trust evaporates when people feel like numbers on a spreadsheet instead of valued team members.
Keeping the numbers low enough so they can do it quietly.
The WARN Act covers employment losses that occur within any 30‑day period (for a single event) or within a 90‑day period (for multiple related events) depending on the type of layoff or plant closing.
The WARN Act applies when
- a worksite closure affects 50 or more employees
- a mass layoff impacts at least 33% of the workforce at a single site, affecting a minimum of 50 employees
- planned layoffs affect 500 or more employees at a single site.
Feels like watching an episode of 24 where her husband Jack is eliminating people left and right.
They let a couple people in Design go as well. No announcements, just quietly letting people go. BB is doing a good job sowing the fear that each Friday you might get that email from HR and your boss.
@c0 because some 3Mers actually live outside the US
Happening in other parts of the company, too.
Whatever corporate customer ops is now, and also IT, too.
TEBG Leadership is completely inept. Every quarter Bendy Wower and Joe Karaoke lead a whirlwind of legally and ethically questionable deals to pull revenue forward. All the people that actually knew the businesses have been marginalized or left.
How have these not met the numbers yet for WARN act?
Every role to be impacted over next 4 weeks. Need the savings to buy more stock and pay our legal bills.
@OP inexperienced people have been given charge of consolidated organizations. May be this means more lay offs in those divisions?? All banking on one new product, the optical connector.