Just came on board. Dang, what a bunch of sad sacks moping around here. That's too bad. Here in Eagan and in the old 3M site it's like a morgue. Nobody says "Hi". They are afraid of their own shadow. Oh, well. Maybe some new blood can liven this place up!
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@nh Eh, give it some time. This site is like buying a product on Amazon and only having the 1-star reviews to go by. It's called "thelayoff" not "theawesome." Go ask some real life people in your team and/or outside it what they think.
This stuff only really bothers me when I look up too much or when there are actual layoffs. See how your actual team and work is. Half the people in the country hate the president in alternating periods of 4yrs. It's up to each of us if that's going to ruin the experience of making eggs in the morning.
Good luck. Long time 3Mer and then Solventum here. I'm out and now at a much better company. Money is of course not as good as 3M, but no chance of redundancies here.
Should have found this site before taking the offer.
@kn I don't recall external hires names ever coming up but he was asked why he was hiring a number of outsiders for high level positions rather than promote from within since the people already here know a lot about the business.
To be fair, sounds like Bill Brown at 3M is doing the same.
Maybe this is just an indication of how incompetent some former 3Mers or KCI at SOLV are at leadership.
Still, it's frustrating when someone being paid richly comes in at a high salary and then acts like the team that they inherited are id--ts. The Holiday layoffs included have greatly eroded what trust there was on Day 1 after people thought they had "escaped" a declining 3M.
People do understand that Bryan inherited a huge debt load for a company with under 15 billion in sales. But his "reward" of 40 million before he had done much of anything to deserve it should not sit well with people who've lost their jobs.
I got a mile of numbers, and a ton of stats. I don't even worry about crime anymore. There are just so many scared faces. I do keep thinking of Layoffs of Layoffs.
Paranoid, stuck on Overdrive.
@gb I don't ever recall him being asked this, or answering it. When was this and what was the question asked? Like at a town hall someone literally asked "Why did you hire Heather?"
The way it was explained to me is Bryan is and always was just the "I've done spinoffs before" confidence guy, and Chris was set to take his spot, but something in personal life prevented this, hence Heather is now next in line. He said as much in the Oct townhall when Heather was announced. Just wondering if that's what you mean.
I hear you, I'd even do it for $1M.
@fr Bryan's wobbly answers as to why he is hiring so many external hires from other companies and giving them high-level positions and big pay as well as a signing bonus (Heather, etc.) Was enough to make the audience realize most of the employees are just costs in a spreadsheet and not assets to the team.
He has clearly disappointed a lot of people, some of whom got jettisoned the last two Holiday seasons.
When he leaves as a very rich man, he will have the "fame" of breaking up 3Ms former HCBG into a bunch of underfunded and shortstaffed neutered dwarfs.
Give me 4 million, not his 40 million, and I could easily accomplish this without hiring the external bloat.
People here seem unfriendly because they feel you are stealing THEIR job,
@ea You sound like some OLD hippie from Minnesota that has frostbite on their brain…
Just saying……
Welcome Fledgling,
Just do your best and collect your check. Do not let the Doom and Gloomers get you down. Work, play, eat, sleep. Crazy how much people let this affect their lives. It's just a job. Americans are so hung up in what they do for a living. It's hysterical that people who can work from home have an actual job. What and where is the product? People in labs doing R and D work. People in factories making the product work. People working from home outside of admin work and sales what do they do?
If you can work from home move on. Get a job working somewhere else that "treats you right". Get out of the way and let these shiny happy people grow this company into something great.
Take the money and run
You'll love the townhall meetings. Bryan can waste 60 minutes with corporate gibberish, waffling answers to employee questions, and complete lack of vision for future growth.
If you're new, then you missed what was a very uplifting introduction meeting when Bryan first was named CEO and shared his vision. It's been all downhill from there. Don't book any big vacations to Disney before the Holidays as Bryan likes to leave lumps of coal and manure in employees stockings in corporate layoffs.
In the odd chance Eagan has some kind of celebratory buffer lunch to acknowledge something big, get to the front of the line, ahead of the Destroyer of Buffets. Or you may be stuck with salad fixings.
I feel bad you joined this sinking ship…. Get ready for the biggest S**T Show of your life!!!