Expect a round of layoffs to happen two years after the last major round. The segment reorgs are resulting in doubled up upper management slots and they will just go away.
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Greenville and Waco are about to get hit hard
Good luck everyone 😊
Saves on legal fees not having to enforce NDAs and non-competes when tribal knowledge goes out with asbestos.
@115 Any update on the number of the people, or site they're targeting? Segment?
@17g - who’s talking about floor tiles? What about asbestos fiber insulation inside the air ducts? Not outside, like they do nowadays, but inside. Is that dangerous? You’re damn right it is, is lethal overtime.
@e3 Asbestos that is not free or disturbed - for example, that in undamaged floor tiles - does not pose a health risk. Asbestos just sitting there does not make you sick. Everything else mentioned, sure, but asbestos floor tiles that are not damaged (cut, broken, ripped up) are harmless.
@OP finance people to be laid off.
@vb Exactly, they should be available to support engineering, not overloaded with other non-engineering tasks.
@p6 last I checked EM’s were not doing critical engineering tasks, unless you use the term engineer loosely and call the cleanup crew custodial engineers too?
Stock prices skyrocketed lets lay off Greenville mechanics
Group Leaders and Engineering Managers should have a lot of critical tasks in backlog to support for real engineering.
At a time when there's a lot of different HR issues, there's now less HR. Now GLs and EMs have to pickup even more additional daily HR issues that take them away from the critical engineering tasks. They have zero desire to do HR tasks, and have zero training.
HR VPs must be completely out of touch. Not just this one issue.
@nv you mostly need HR in the hiring process, but since L3H is in personnel reduction mode, you don’t really need a strong HR force. Just get the manager to take their badge and escort them them out the door.
If you have ever crossed anybody or stepped on anyone’s toes, who now has authority, you might want to start looking for another job somewhere else.
@a9 It's easy to give the union big raises when you're going to lay most of them off anyway. "Here's the money you're never gonna get!"
Well played L3Harris.
@nv I thought HR was centralized into Melbourne a long time ago. The other locations had "satellite" HR offices. With the company going from 4 business units to 3, and spinning off the missile business, there will be too much redundancy in ALL administrative offices. Laying people off in a location away from Florida can be done with a simple email to the operations manager: "Inform the following that their services are no longer required and give them the link to the company's separation policy. Once they have been informed, have security escort them out of the building and block their badge number from reentering."
That's it. You don't need a "human resources professional" to handle that.
"After everyone is gone, the last man aboard scuttles the ship."
In usual backwards fashion, HR personnel let go at a time when more are needed. Now those tasks go to GLs and EMs who have zero training or desire to handle HR issues. Congratulations.
@hp - It looks like for Valentine’s Day, the kube doesn’t love HR anymore.
Started already with HR people let go.
@cy; don’t forget about the hydrogen fiber Bragg grating machine in the back of building 13, that could level half of the building if the hydrogen gets loose. It could be Supper unsafe, and probably hasn’t been properly serviced since the one guy who could perform the proper routine maintenance moved to Colorado and resigned from L3H years ago.
@cy asbestos and mold? That's funny. You should see or more to the point smell the facility at 77 River road in Clifton. The building is 75 years old and it literally makes people sick. I'm surprised there hasn't been a class action. There is so much asbestos in the floor tiles that the only mitigation is to cover it with a carpet! If you walk from the main corridor toward the East wing of the building, once you get over the old wooden floors, you can smell the mold coming from the old archives downstairs. Water from leaking pipes consistently drains into the parking garage through the ceiling tiles. If one removes one of the"manhole cover" inside the building, be ready with a broom and shovel to sweep up all of the palmetto bugs that will come racing out. (That's what they call big giant cockroaches up here). If they razed this building to the ground, they would have to take the debris to a special toxic landfill site. The ground under the building is saturated with carcinogenic chemicals. Ask anyone who grew up or spent any time around here.
@cq; The department manager of L3H’s Palm Bay building 13 optical department is a complete clown. I’m not sure how he got the position.
They should eliminate the department and tear the building down like they did building 1, 2 and 3A as it is contaminated with mold and asbestos, worse than the other buildings. They had better hope that OSHA never shows up to perform an inspection.
The optical department, housed in building 13 of the Palm Bay campus that at one time was Harris’ “center of excellence”, but now is the “center of nothingness”, could be marked for personnel reduction. They no longer accomplish the cutting edge work they once did, ever since the department manager, Pat was forced out (for valid reasons ), years ago. No longer attend in any meaningful way Trade shows, or contribute to the advancement of optical science. I am not sure what those PhD do all day?
LA facilities are closing or have closed. Preparing to be let go as part of that.
Assemblers and testers as well as engineering in Clifton are also expecting to see a drastic reduction in numbers. Amityville will probably close within the next year as the EW business shrinks and depot ops for older products is outsourced.
Layoffs are expected at the Greenville site
The rumored number is 200
Mainly mechanics and assemblers
Who knows maybe the whole place is in danger ⚠️
Before or after the next town hall?