Who is feeling like this is a preferred workplace? What is leadership doing to make this a preferred workplace? It seems none of the employees from 3M are part of the future. The goal is to replace everyone with better employees and bring them in as Sr Director or VP and above. If you are not already that level, you never will be.
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@35c collecting my pension while watching this stock trade sideways, mostly hovering in the 70s with no dividend. How Bryan can take home 40 million when most 3Mers or now SOLV employees would be lucky to get a 2 ranking and maybe even a 1 for this performance is everything wrong about merit pay.
At least Bill Brown has nearly doubled 3M share price for those with lumps of coal in their GESPP. Though it's starting to slide when investors realize that neither company has any real growth potential.
Sad to see this business underperform so badly. It truly had a chance to blossom once out from under the Maplewood mismanagement. It didn't help 3M saddled it with 7 billion in debt. Debt is still 5 billion even after filtration was sold.
Fittingly, Groundhog Day is next week. Bryan should spend a few of his millions to hire Bill Murray to play him in a movie. Only this time, it's always early December and Bryan is "forced" to layoff another 1000 because he can't grow the business and needs to go back to his wash-rinse-repeat shtick of Holiday layoffs. At least people can breathe easy for a 10 more months until the appointed time returns.
Former 3Mer watchin' 'er burn. And collecting my check at the same time!
@31s 3M was truly a treasured place until the end of the century. Agreed Mcnerney destroyed the culture and long-term productivity by strangleholding innovation and risk taking.
Cr-ppy leadership can really be placed on two things.
First, immense fanatical focus on meeting next quarters financials. Bryan is always thinking short-term since he has no long-term skin in the game nor any emotional attachment. Any more than a mercenary does to a country he's fighting for.
Second, HR under mcnerney became singularly focused on protecting the company and senior leaders. It uaed to be a friendly and helpful asset for employees for decades. Mcnerney brazenly pushed promoting up the under 40 crowd ahead of experienced and qualified leaders. Infamous Michael Vale (look him up if you'd like) was a poster child for this.
And worthless and overpaid as Bryan is, I doubt anyone could have come in and turned this place around after what 3M decimated under previous leadership.
GLTA who are left. The slow-motion gutting of the company will continue for 3 to 4 more years. Bryan probably set a personal goal to pocket 150 million before he's done, with a stretch goal of 200 million.
Back in the older 3M days, it was an amazing place to work. That was why we could launch new to world products, create new markets for our products and all the other stuff that you hear in the miracle innovation stories. All that stopped after McNerney, so if you joined 3M after that, it is understandable why you see 3M leadership as cr-p, same as Solv leadership being cr-p.
No point reminiscing on the past, what is gone has gone. It will not come back. We just cherish the wonderful memories of working with like-minded people trying to improve the world one step at a time.
I'm just waiting to figure out when is the best time to dump my Solv shares.
4 weeks till the clown show in Orlando! Stock is tanking and all my customers are unhappy since we lost our PSS counterparts….Interviews are going well and hope to be outta the clown show by spring… until then I’m quiet quitting and act like I give a S**T!!!!
@ee sorry this makes no sense I was not a longtime 3mer and I see the toxicity of the place it’s just poor leadership across the board old and new a lot them just don’t know how to lead and it’s sad because they are getting paid top dollar and messing up peoples lives either a not so great work environment bad go to market products bind us and promotional structure … I do agree that there are a lot of lazy a-s 3mers that should have been gone already but the new leadership no better
agreed I’m so happy to be out of that place leadership su-ks a-s I wouldn’t trust anybody in a leadership role at solventum they treat their employees like sh-t I would hope I never work for a company like them again. They are messing with people’s livelihood and can careless. I say who ever is left look out for you because they don’t give a fu-k about you. Will axe you in a heartbeat and you can be a top performer. Solventum can kick rocks and kiss my a-s!
3Mer taking vaca during NTM says it all.
@aj 100%! SO toxic. I'm so happy now that I left 12/31 and am starting my own business. 3M was a very supportive, positive work environment for me for close to 2 decades. Solventum management loved to shame employees publicly on meetings, write people up if they "didn't like them" and fired people to make the budget. The place is disgusting and won't last long.
SOLVENTUM!!! SINKING WITH MOMENTUM!!!!
@x6 very much bad. Just hang in as long as you can working 8 to 5 at Eagan. Do not do work off hours. It won't save you. Check our DoorDash jobs as Heather loves getting food multiple times per day. She is a cheap tipper though.
Be prepared for a bad job market out there...
@g4 Not really getting the back and forth. Cutting through the language games, I think you're saying something like this?
- Solventum is a great company, well led, has a great plan, and is inspiring to work for
- Solventum employees who are ex-3Mers are lazy and upset by being held accountable for the first time in their lives, and this is why they are complaining here
Is that accurate? And by the back and forth, I take it you did come from KCI? I thought 3M really botched that all up, no? Doing some background research, KCI/Acelity was 1.5B in 2018 around the acquisition. Happen to know if that's grown?
I don't know how this discussion went from what was asked, to "accountability." If anything I feel like that goes in the other direction. It's just endless emptiness. What have they actually done?
Paraphrased jargon from the past 1.5yrs: "Once we spin, it'll be great, I'm so excited about our future. Are we selling P&F? Naw, don't give into speculation. With these restructurings and layoffs, we'll be more poised for success than ever. I'm so excited about our 6 growth drivers (P&F listed). We're so excited to sell off P&F, this is the best for everyone. Transform for the Future will change everything. Heather Knight's track record will launch us into unprecedented success."
Meanwhile, flat stock, layoffs, $40M salary. He-l if I know what they want to actually focus on or do. What are the key products to launch in the next 1-3yrs? What is Transform for the Future? Why Heather Knight again (read her emails, it's like she's starting from scratch to solicit input on "what's working and what's not so we can fix it"? They don't know those answers 1.5yrs in?). I don't think they know where they are going in order to hold anyone accountable to anything. Or do you disagree? Specifically, what wasn't being held accountable that now is?
In my view, they are just shuffling the deck of cards hoping for a straight flush.
Wow you told me!! There is that well known 3M class. Bet you can’t wait to get back and tell your co workers in the tape dept. I don’t need to worry about working for door dash as long as losers like yourself are around. When it comes to the next layoff you are low hanging fruit.
@fy Sounds like you should take one of the prevena you stole from your hospital to make your number and place it over the gaping wound on your face that you call your mouth…
Don’t forget to use all those Panera points to feed the front desk fatties at your main doc’s office, they need to get fed so he keeps using you while the SN rep waits for you to mess up….
Maybe give him some free canisters to keep that relationship solid… When you don’t hit your number and they pip you there’s always door dash….
I will be happy to get you started on order takers. Which criteria would you like to compare? Pick a year any year, you want to go with W2’s, rankings, most sick time used? I threw the 3rd one in there just so you could win one, you know like a participation trophy. After all as a 3Mer you feel entitled to getting something for just showing up.
I agree with you entirely! All the executives have golden parachutes. Guaranteed money whether the company fails or not. They shift the little guys around like us and then do layoffs and lie to our face. They should all go to Hollywood because they are actors! They will all be gone in 2 years…
Also to the other poster that pointed his finger at the 3mers… if your legacy KCI don’t get me started on order takers.. you have zero relationships outside the or… all those cases you cover for what to tell them how to apply some foam and press start… you are a glorified door dasher to docs offices and hear you do some shady things to get more “biz”. I’m sure they could dare to do the surgery with out you there..
@ee accountability? Starts at the top. Bryan makes 40 million. Share price has lagged the stock market gain by 50 percent. No dividend. And exactly what value are his external SVP hires bringing. Look at their records running Baxter and others.
Nope. If Bryan gets a kings ransom, then employees deserve better than Christmas layoffs.
It is really telling that most that are posting on here are ex 3Mers who are complaining. Could it be they are upset because they are being asked to become salespeople instead of order takers? Or is because for the first time in their "careers" they are being held accountable for their actions?
The job market blows right now. Best to wait around till the Christmas 2026 firings and collect a severance. The job market may be better by then. It will not get worse. Worst case is to take a DoorDash job when fired for the holidays and make daily deliveries to Heather and her gang of cronies and clowns.
I am so outta this place! As a 3mer I can say this management regime is the worst yet! These guys are grasping for straws. This place is a toxic dumpster fire and my local pizza shop is run better. I am on vacation and missing the NTM and so glad I don’t have to listen to hair plugs blow smoke this year!! I will take a few more joy rides in my co car before they take it in April and by then I will be onto my next opportunity.
I loved 3M but this place and the name alone is hard to stomach. Anyone that stays is a fool, don’t say I told you so when the do more layoffs next year!
I'm updating my resume and looking. I am also considering changes to my current role, as if you don't know what the better thing is out there, it's worth seeing how to make this job less negative at least.
Part of that might simply be detaching. Why is "not a best and preferred place to work" bothersome if you aren't paid poorly or suffering? It's a suffering of the mind, a being bothered by contradictions and failed ideals. But if you don't care and this is a transactional exchange, it doesn't have to be a problem.