Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

Aero
band 3
5-block

2. 5%

Aero B4. Twenty years of 1,2,4,5. Put in 6 this year. Zero negative feedback over the last year. Reasoning sounded like a popularity contest in a Seinfeld episode. "She doesn't like you." No regard for the work I did to "go beyond" to make up for their planning mistakes, drive new initiatives. My previous leaders knew what I accomplished, stood up for me, reciprocated. This year sounded like a high school clicque deciding who is the coolest. Simply disgusting. After two decades of bravo awards, kudos and thanks. And no, I'm not going through "the change" or anything like that. Despite being female, I'm an older white American below VP level, so I shouldn't be suprised.

The 9 block is the Honeywell "legal" way to get rid of undesirable workers - older folks making too much $. Your accepting it in the HPD system means you agree with everything written; even if your boss says don't worry about it. When push comes to shove they pull these back out. Only a certain % can be in upper elbow means a lot of your review score has nothing to do with your work. Those in the upper elbow typically get there by being friends with the boss, on a personal level. Working hard will succeed in getting you more work.

The 9-blocker thing is a sham, just like the buzzword bingo copy & paste "personal" goals every year. My listed goals had typos in them for a few years and no one noticed!

I also went above and beyond achieving my goals, and got absolutely nothing. When I questioned it, I was told basically that it is all calculated early on. They can "only give out so many upper elbows." So, it's just a way to check the box and say that someone was reviewed. Garbage. I learned there's no reason to try and do more than you really need to, because it doesn't get anyone anywhere unless (maybe) they kiss the right rear ends.

Aero B4

2. 7% merit

150% MIP

Band 4, scored a 6 out of nowhere. Had a 2 last year. No raise no mip. This just came out of nowhere! always have gotten positive feedback from my manager. I don’t get it, guess they want me to leave....

For many years now, the merit pool has been near or below the inflation rate. That means for someone to get above inflation, others have to get less. What really gets me is the gaslighting, their trying to convince employees that they’re really getting more when it’s less. Would Hon serve a market that returned less and less each year? Why should employees?

You must be really new to Honeywell.

You should check this site to see the frequency of postings before applying to a company.

Yup. No honey, all well.

Inflation rate in 2020 is 2.73%. If your raise was less than that percentage, you lost money. If your raise was more than the inflation rate, you have increased spending power. My raise was .02% above that, so my effective raise was $19. That's the difference between 2.75% and 2.73%.

That's pretty good when you think about it. That's about $1.53 per month before taxes. After taxes it's roughly 50 cents per check after it's all said and done. If I save my raise for a whole month i.could almost buy a soda from one of the machines! Man, what a nice reward from countless hours of unpaid overtime, weekends wasted working, and the extra effort needed to achieve unrealistic AOP targets. Mark my words, Mke Mdsen, I will NOT be making the same mistakes in 2020 I made in 2019. I'll be working just hard enough to not get fired while I look for something else.

2018
Worked my a– off, lots of free OT, took on leadership roll. Lots of stress, time away from family etc.
Result
Band 3
Block 5

2. 3% increase

2019
Did just enough not to get fired
Result
Band 3
Block 5

2. 3% increase

Positive review

For those of you that have years before you retire, a little advice, my experience after 30 long years is that you are far more likely to get a bigger piece of the pie if you play golf with the managers who all sit together and decide who gets what at review time. Unfortunately, it is less important to be a high performing talented employee and more important to be connected with those who have influence over you. Basically you need to become an a– kisser. It is less of what you know, and more of who you blow.
Glad to be retiring next January.

What was the inflation rate? I'm sure I was below it. Haven't seen a decent merit raise in 6 years.

HR data mining scheme. Don’t go full Gabe when they claw back your MIP.

OP - Quit whining and get a job somewhere else.

There's a good chance that your boss checks in here from time to time. Just sayin'.

Aero b4
Block 2
My raise was the inflation rate in 2020

Thanks for the sweet reward for all the hard work in 2019, HON! I won't be making that mistake again.

Leave now... Leave now... Leave now! Your career dissipation light should be blinking on overdrive.

SPS, says it all. Aero was the winning group this year and took home the big MIP bucks, unless that Aero group was called out for a BS metric.