Has anyone actually looked at the slides on the default screensaver? We openly mock how bad our customers tell us we are.
In our all aero townhall we are told all about amazing record numbers and opportunities then a company wide email comes out threatening our bonuses if we don't 180 the company that's red in 70% of metrics. Very tired company with very tired messaging. Can't wait to turn in my badge in the upcoming months
I learned a long time ago, and in MBA school, that to make a change that works and gets stakeholders to jump on, an exec has to be the champion and the example. I spent over a decade at Honeywell and I can tell you why the "entrenched" personnel don't want to train anyone. It's not because it's beneath them, it's because they don't have time and it's just another work task for which they won't be recognized, appreciated, or rewarded. And the attitude of disrespect for their wisdom and experience from the younger generations coming in the door pretty much ensures that they won't do it. Many of the legacy products were designed and qualified in the '80's. Today's technology is simply incompatible with the legacy products. The idea of rolling out new products based on old part numbers isn't their idea. That stupidity starts with DA and Maddog. Sh1t rolls down hill from there. Don't discount what people 50 and up can do when the wrong management structure is removed and the right one is put in place. That is the generation that made flying safe for you and me, invented the internet, the pc, the smartphone, LCD monitors and TV's, earbuds, LED light bulbs, Playstation, Xbox, and solid state drives. They know exactly what they're doing and have for decades. You can learn a lot from them if you have the right approach.
The Execs have no clue to turn this around, no ideas, out of ideas. That's why they are left with "the beating won't stop until the ground troops come up with ideas, implement them and turn it around"
For over the past decade, the Exec relied on the same formula = smoke and mirror jargon to wall street (Gold Enterprise,... down to recent Accelerators). But wall street is starting to catch on and demands real performance, not fads, fancy catch phrases bought from McKinsey consulting.
So the workers are screwed no matter what...
Either stay and take the abuse or leave to fins another employer who will pay true market rate. Exec and HR lie about Honeywell pays market rate. LOL. Just ask anyone who left to work at Blue Origin, Raytheon, even Boeing...
We have no one to blame if we stay. I gave notice and going to take my 15% pay increase from another. See u all on the other side.
Doesn't hurt to look, right? Worst case, nothing happens and you are still here. Good luck
@zdi
“all employees under 50yo”
Age discrimination? Sc--w you!
@olg
It's more than the executives (although it is a big part of the issue).
There is also many entrenched teams that have circled the wagons. Refuse to teach new hires because it's below them. Refuse to use (or even evaluate) commercially available tools and stick with uncompetitive 1980s technology. And think that "new" means doing the same thing they always have but with a new part number. And when someone comes with a mandate to make changes, they continually get stabbed in the back.
Honeywell is rotten from top to bottom. The best thing would be to sell off the IP and all employees under 50yo to a company that know what they are doing and can mentor their young engineers properly.
When times are good, the execs take the credit. When times are bad, everyone and everything else is to blame... especially the workers. The execs have no plan to 180 the company to get enough workers, treat them right, and retain them. The execs are the problem, but refuse to change their fossilized ways of doing business. Until that changes, nothing else does. Go somewhere else that is better. You'll be very glad you did.