All the sites here in the Phoenix area hit hard in all salaried function. Have not seen any massive RIFS among hourly direct labor personnel. What gives? They are standing around in the assembly floor
With nothing to do. Why are they exempt from this m—acre?
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What about Glendale Space ?
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Rough cuts in procurement last few days many were RIFd Including myself, PM, Director, My site Even exceeded Q2 goals I thought I was safe but thought wrong. I guess India and Mexico team will pick up the pieces much to the dismay of all my suppliers asking why their payments are not made on time or not at all. I was swamped in procurement and yesterday I was let go and R\O detail tracking sheets, meetings, AOGs .. just everything I was feverishly working on went in the trash. So much for Buy American / Keep Jobs in America - Not Honeywell.
Alot of the standing around has to do with lack of parts. Whether from single source vendors who are upset with Honeyhell for no payments, delayed payments, or just good old fashioned ineptitude about what the part was supposed to be(vendor making a -1 part that had the print changed to a -2, and no one told vendor). Or the "just in time" inventory disaster. With these 2 issues causing parts shortages is it fair to blame shop floor mechanics? I think these decisions were made a higher pay grade than they make. Salaried personal have made bad decision after bad decision affecting entire business. Please dont hate the wrong group for managements incompetence. Remember, I'm pulling for you, were all in this together.
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The problem is exactly what you described. HON is not RIFing the "dead weight" but instead they are RIFing the ppl that are actually doing their job and play a critical roll in the teans they are on. On top of that the tribal knowledge that is being lost here is overwhelming and since they are laying off whole teams (or almost all of them) that knowledge will most likely never be replaced which is a shame. If they want to cut expenses and increase production than get rid of the id–ts that get in the way by just sitting around taking up space and diminishing productivity of those that actually want to get things done.
It’s more than “dead weight” that’s being rif’d. I know of 3 people I work with that were direct charge and rif’d. These 3 were in the Phoenix area and critical to the programs they supported. Programs that were already short staffed and ramping up in workload. It certainly seems it is only a matter of time before I get a meeting request with HR.
I can tell you that our site has very little work to do in R&O. Before all of this COVID stuff hit we had a massive amount of backlog but now that planes are not flying there are no incoming units anymore. Most of the R&O department is just sitting around playing on there phones and having little chit chat sessions with each other throughout the day. There is a lot of dead weight that can be cut and let the guys that are actually doing work and there job stay on and keep making money.
I don't know about Phoenix but my specific work center has more than 200 hours of past due, and my department is more than 1000 hours past due. They were asking us to work 55+ hours a week up till this week. It is 100% because they RIF people in May, and then stole people to go to another department because they lost people to.
Production and hourly were hit hard last month.