Thread regarding 3M layoffs

@zr wrong... I am remote and have none of those but frankly I see people navigate and do their jobs without issues even with a few distractions from time to time.

Just get back and do your job
Dont complain

I’ve heard some 3M workers are considering a new union for grievances like RTO.

@1np MM isn't putting stooges in place; he's putting experts in toxicity.

It's exactly what he wants: a bunch of a--holes who aggressively drive out anyone less devoted to Mark than themselves.

Unfortunately we have an unqualified joker running IT, so good luck with being productive in the office. MM has done nothing but cut and push all the competent leaders out of the company. The backfill stooges won’t get anything good done.

@18k I think it depends on distance to nearest campus. Distant Remote seems to be unknown right now. Hybrid or distant but within 50 miles of a campus are expected to start coming in.

what are they doing with remote set up? force them to come to office?

@d7

Brilliant retort. Because 100% of remote workers have barking dogs, crying babies, or both.

How do you manage to log on to your device each day, with such a crippling cognitive deficiency?

When everyone was in the office, execs would say the jobs could be done anywhere, then cut people and later rehire in cheap labor countries. Now they say the opposite when it is convenient for their agenda. 3M forgot its best asset was people. It is a game they play with people’s lives. That’ll be their legacy after 3M is finished off

@kt I had heard a lot of bad things about Bryan and his puppet master from Trian (Nelson Peltz) when he did a Christmas layoff that was even worse than my boss Frank Shirley doling out Jelly of the Month bonuses.

Now it sounds like Billy Boy is the real scrooge. His ego knows no limit. He probably proudly displays a nameplate Mr. MINNESOTA NASTY at his desk.

Just hope my severance check covers that new pool at the Griswold home.

Funny what Solventum Bryan Hansen said about RTO. In a company-wide town hall today, our CEO Bryan Hanson told the entire Solventum organization that 93% of Fortune 500 companies are going back to the office and 94% of medtech companies are too.

Then he said we're not; because "our employees aren’t children."

I will go back with minimal complaints (okay, I think 3 days would be sufficient, but I digress). BUT - I want a permanent spot. It is not too much to ask at all I don't think. The other day I had to go to 4 different spots until I found one with all working equipment. First had someone there already - even though I had it reserved. I didn't feel like confrontation, so I just kept walking. Second had a broken mouse. Third had a table up really high and I couldn't lower it. Crawled around on the ground to make sure table was plugged in and all of that. Finally the fourth goldilocks table was like 90 minutes of suffering later. I guess that is productive???

@es that's not really true.

The people who love the RTO are the upper-level dou--ebags with literally no experience producing anything, convinced that is they can't see people then they must not be working.

Funny how those same people are the ones who still get to have private offices with doors (that are always closed).

@OP
So true, I’ll support my reports “transition” until they have a space to call their own. This was not well thought out…

@es exactly... some of us WANT to work and be productive. Give us the basic setup to actually work. Funny how those who push this "collaboration" are those who are behind closed office doors.

You know who loves that open office layout, with the sea of small cubicles with low cubicle walls, all tightly packed together with 50+ people all trying to work in one large space? Extreme extroverts, high level bean counters, and .... yeah, that's it. Most people hate it.

Didn't they greatly downsize the cafeteria (staff and food options) at the Center? The only "entertainment" there was seeing Tireman being fawned over by his jackals. Now that he's gone, the place has all the aura of a dentist's office.

@d7 Tell me you work in a plant without actually saying it.

A barking dog or crying baby is certainly no worse than the constant call center babble in the background of everyone from the IT CoE, or the sales guy in the cube next to you yammering all day long

And the reality is that because 3M hired so many global people, we're all still going to be stuck in Teams meetings every day, all day, anyhow, so now we'll ALL sound like we're working from a call center.

@ax yeah, you are right, how will we be productive without hearing your dog barking or your baby crying in the background?

The tiny little desks, elbow to elbow with your neighbor, attempting to talk over each other, is a unproductive as it comes.

If you put fences around people, you get sheep.

• William McKnight

Saw the above painted on a wall at the center recently

@a4 BB would never win at Texas Holdem. He quickly telegraphed his plans about RTO. His reference to Minnesota Nice and everyone gets an A shows he has zero appreciation for the generations of 3Mers or their culture that built a empire.

He is a more clumsy version of Mcnerney who at least talked a good story with Wall Street for a while before decimating Boeing with his GE style tactics.

BB is using a rusty worn-out version of Neutron Jack's cut and cut some more and maybe cut even more.

This clown is making 20 million when he should have remained in early retirement. He got booted from his last gig, albeit with a fat severance package.

BB is here to finish what Mike started. Breaking up 3M into a bunch of smaller business only units. Central Research is doomed in that scenario.

I'm not happy to be back in the office, but if this effort weren't being bungled by hapless leadership or wouldn't feel so obviously punitive.

The plan clearly isn't to get us all back together in the office, doing our best work; it's too drive away anyone that might quit before the end of the year so that we can reduce payroll and show Wall Street that our costs are going down. (Just ignore the fact that productivity is also in the toilet.)

Are you kidding? I’m not paying a wooden nickel for floor space for my teams!