Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

Yelling and screaming at employees may not be "classic abuse" but it's hardly a motivator in the workplace. I've seen it too many times by VP's + who thought they were leaders, but were really desperate to make their numbers and outshine their peer group so they could get the biggest bonus and survive another day. It's not the example I followed as a manager.

@3eq I am sure there was a productivity play, but I assure you offloading the costs on the balance sheet to improve that margin at all costs was absolutely, absolutely objective one here. Everything is about the margin (they certainly haven’t grown revenue). Just listen to any earnings call for the past 10 years. Margin, margin, margin.

@2wpq
The intent was to reduce vacation use as that was the result at GE when they did it.

The only abuse to report is that the OP can't spell correctly, thereby abusing the english language: "Identitfy abbuse"?

For those not in the know, limitless vacation had one objective: they don’t have to carry the cost of paying out vacation when you leave on the books. One of the many one time cost savings tricks they pulled some years back to prop up margins. Glad I left and took my cash balance pension and the cash from my unused vacation time when I could.

I guess my manager was abused for being weak and he squeals like a little girl and pounds his fist like a girl with a temper tantrum. I feel sorry for the guy. He had to put up with us and we were not an easy gang to manage. One guy looked like a guy from the biker movies...lol

In person, his voice would be like a mouse but over the phone it would be sharp shrill like that of a harpy shriek. I guess the young and inexperienced VP was pounding his hard old a$$.

Bunch of whiners. “I was yelled at and told to work hard. And that made me spill my chai latte on my Ugg’s. How can anybody work under these conditions?” Sheesh.

Don’t forget about the good old boys club, and the s-xual harassment. Do as I say, not as I do

You can thank the great state government of CA and mostly Netflix for vacation slavery. CA passed a law saying any vacation hours an employee is due for a year must be given out in the beginning of the year. Some employees abused by taking 2 weeks of vacation in Jan and quitting in Feb. Netflix responded by replacing a defined vacation benefit by an unlimited, business approved vacation benefit. As HON loves to copy abusive practices from Tech companies, it became HON policy even outside CA

Mental abuse is saying you unlimited vacation (freedom) when really you have no vacation (slavery). I still don’t see how this vacation thing is technically legal.

Each time HR sends me a 'diversity candidate' and asks me to ignore merit and talent, its serious abuse, both on the ignored candidate and on every member of the hiring team that has to put with the joker they are forced to hire. So what do I about it?

Good heavens, I have observed abuse too many times to count. Common denominator— factory management. The current president has a specific reputation of establishing dominance via shouting. I have also seen employees discriminated against for weight issues— routinely.
I do agree that abuse usually takes two. Standup and lead.

"Man up. So you were yelled at. Put on your big boy pants and get over it. This is the real world, not the world where everybody gets a trophy for participating."

Yea.....sounds like you missed your number every quarter and probably have to bcc your boss on every email or make any direct reports bcc you....if you had any. Now get back screaming at 100 decibels and contact a Center of Excellence in China, India, Mexico, or Romania to get some support or better yet send "thoughts" emails to others and paste the response up the incompetent ladder of dysfunction. Drink that restructuring Kool Aid future shaver and check the bookings for Quantum Ponzi noise.

Man up. So you were yelled at. Put on your big boy pants and get over it. This is the real world, not the world where everybody gets a trophy for participating.

@nwg .... Pretty described the GSI VP.

@nwg: Examples of "Narcissistic Behaviors":

Being overly boastful, exaggerating one's own achievements
Pretending to be superior to others
Lack of empathy for others
Looking down on others as inferior
Monopolizing conversations
Impatient, angry, unhappy, depressed or has mood swings when criticized
Easily disappointed when expected importance is not given
Always craves for “the best” in everything
Has a very fragile self- esteem

• Do you mean 12 hour meetings?
• Do you mean a VP "yelling and screaming" at staff on a global call with 30+ staff on the line?
• Do you mean "constantly interrupting a speaker" after a question is asked by the VP in a "prosecutorial" tone?
• Do you mean a "rant from a VP" over petty perceived issues?
• Do you mean "Anti Semitic comments" on a global call with those offended in the room?
• Do you mean "firing someone" after a global call?
• Do you mean staff quitting after a "roasting" by a VP after every monthly call?

Not sure I would call that abuse....simply cost avoidance on severance payments and part of the HOS system.