Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

My HON vacation experience. Hired a new person that I trained to be my boss. A VP was going to a HR recruiting event in silicon valley and asked that I attend an important meeting on a Friday which was during a scheduled 1 week summer vacation after a minimum of 60 hour weeks for years on end.

So I booked an "o dark 30" flight Friday morning from the beach, made the meeting that had 1 person from another company that conferenced in a couple of their team members. HON had 4 people at the meeting including myself. I captured the meeting notes and sent to HON staff 3 minutes after meeting closed and left for the airport and made it back to vacation 8:00 Friday evening, then returned home on Sunday.

Not so much as thank you from the VP or my boss. My next vacation was taking a few days off Christmas to new year. VP has legal contact me at 4:00 on December 23rd, then I received a ton of work to complete by new year while the VP was going on a ski vacation over the holidays.

But I was rewarded with a 5 block rating that year........what can I say. HON Executives are a real piece of work.

I can't say how many times I have been given others work to complete. Sometimes I do it, sometimes not. It doesn't seem to matter. Example, A guy has a project to work and isn't doing it then goes on a week vacation and day 1 I am told by skip level boss we can not wait any longer you must do this. 1st of all, managers still are not allowed to say anything remotely close to lack of resources. 2nd, managers play hot potato all day long - big issue comes up, toss out a name, wipe hands. Someone not doing work, find the guy that does work and through him in the ring. I can't

Don't work during vacation; ok. During your vacation Just need to work on your answers to manager the morning you get back regarding status of everything that didn't get done during your vacation. The kicker is, you are not allowed to mention you were out on vacation. Good employess can come up with good, creative answers that managers like.

@2gwm, it's either that or get PIP'd for not meeting the unrealistic deadlines.

Any person who works during their vacation, or, has to be told NOT to work on vacation is some kind of ‘special’, plain and simple

Take vacation from work, but no one can cover so work even more when I get back.

Probably panic from exodus of talent in the 4th quarter, people have had enough...

Probably panic from exodus of talent in the 4th quarter, people have had enough...

Unlimited vacation but we do track your vacation time, so beware

Too many of you dummies are coerced into working over vacation. Don't be their rube, just leave laptop off, or better yet, lock it away. You've earned that vacation time. It's yours to do what you want. These managers need to be told to go f@&$ themselves!

If an Aero leader is telling you unplug they are FOS. What they are saying is.... Slow down a little, work maybe 14 hrs a day and make sure you answer if I call or assign you an action that went to me but because I have you as my slave you get to do it and make me look good.....

It's very easy. Just don't do it. Don't say anything. Just don't do it. It's time for Mad Dog and his minions to suffer for their complete incompetence. I'm done backstopping jobs that aren't mine and paying for the a$$inine "leadership" decisions. I doub that any of them can even wizz by themselves.

I was forced to take vacation but with no delegates due to rif i was forced to support meetings every day. People dont even bother with outlook calendars anymore. Everyone is fully booked so just ignore. Why would anyone pay us to do work when we cant even bother to assign staff?
I have been told IN WRITING that engineers should be planned at 45 hours per week.
That policy is starting to backfire i think and one recent manager told me to plan the engineer at 45hrs with 1 head in MAT but assign two engineers to the project.

What is this “vacation” you talk about. Get back to work.

Does anyone know if the working environment is like this across all of Aerospace right now?

Before COVID, the only way to catch up on all the work piling up was to periodically take a week off and WFH, just not attend meetings. This is because we were not allowed to WFH, where we could be more productive.

Yup, some new initiative from the Aero leaders. They supposedly care that people are getting burned out. But the reality it’s not happening. Hence why people are exiting faster than they can blink.