Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

Zero Motivation - What to do....

Simple- GTFO

I had 3 calls with recruiters, had lunch and in the afternoon i felt a bit tired. So i took what was supposed to be a 15 minutes nap but it turned out to be 2 hours.
By then I noticed i was doing overtime and hence shut down my laptop to poor myself and my dearest a beer.
Cheers DA.

"...use your psychotic energies to join HON management."

Hahaha, that is the only way one can succeed in HON management...to be as crazy and unempathetic as the guys above you.

The advice on getting a hobby is good but for your professional career; you need to get out of this place. In your case, it is not necessarily HON that is the problem. These types of situations occur at all companies at times. Some are just worse than others.

By changing jobs, you will give yourself the opportunities to reset yourself and your thinking. Heck, the process of job hunting will probably give you a boast.

You need to do this immediately or you will drive yourself into a one way path of destruction that you won’t be able to get out of. You will become the jaded employee with the chip on your back that no one including your colleagues will want to be around and support. Your family will suffer as well.

The inevitable will occur, your performance will decline and sooner than later you will get the axe and be too far gone to help. Getting employment anywhere will be difficult.

Vow to do something today or you be forever longing in a professional career.

Or use your psychotic energies to join HON management. But again, that is only a 18 month career track.

I used to think they were useless and had their day, but HW sees them as barriers to close sites....they make it harder and require a lot of work and money. Look at some of the sites left and look at the ones closing, its not rocket science. Under MM, leadership does not have strong relationships with employees any longer. Heck, he got rid of PER surveys because he frankly doesn't care about what employees have to say anymore.....he will pound his fist and Tarazi will say...we will close it next week.

Be professional.

Here's the deal my friend...I spent 13 yr at HW Aero in various Director roles. Early on, the company was great, great leaders, felt I had a career path with my leaders really supporting what I wanted to do. That all stopped and changed dramatically when leadership went through a major change in 2014 with Maddog coming on the scene in ISC. HW found the trigger man they were looking for to make the shoot from the hip, short sighted decisions they were looking for and now they could care less about people, in fact the strategy is to eliminate heads to an absolute minimium. Like you, I felt compensation was good, but I was losing interest with all the cost cutting and wondering when you last was coming. Well, my last day was back in April as part of the RIF. I can tell you, I have never been happier, working outside of the Aero industry, making just as much money, better benefits with a smaller company, with great leaders that see growth through employee satisfaction. Go ahead and get out of that situation and make your self happy and content in another industry. HW is closing sites and reducing heads and it will not stop, the footprint will be less than 5 or 6 hubs and probably will be sold soon given the far fetched Darius strategy of becoming a softwware industrial. You will not regret making a move, believe in yourself, not HW!

I am sad to say the truth: I wish I had your job! I am 58, I still have ten years until full retirement, struggling and worried to pay my bills. Until now, I am not able to find any work, despite my willingness to move anywhere where the job is. Back in May, I was laid off by a Honeywell director in Puerto Rico, whom I had never met nor spoken to before (I am in the CONUS), and who does not even speak good English. He did not really need to do that because the department had enough volunteers for retirement, but he still did it in spite of my senior manager's recommendation (or so I was told!). I also had not even met my manager, only "very friendly" video and phone chats ! I am definitely much more educated, with more experience and much more skilled than both of them! It is very sad, to say the least, that Honeywell HR and others allowed this to happen. In conclusion, I advise you to just cruise in your current job; it is much better than the alternative I am enduring.

TRTD- Take their money until their checks no clear!

i show up late, leave early and take long breaks. in any given day i do about 20 minutes of work

To the dude that can't even proofread his own comments before sending: Not everyone whom has any work ethic whatsoever is a member of management. With you're thought process, you are probably exactly where you were when you started, and have no desire to improve yourself, your position or the company for which you work. Please do your part in improving this company, and leave. Immediately. I have no patience for useless, lazy, dead weight people around me.

Everyone feels this way at some points in their career. For me the fix has been to refocus on the small things. Succeed at the things which take an hour and soon your days will be better. Good days lead to good weeks and good weeks ... this is about doing LESS work as you must stop solving other people’s problems.

Meanwhile work hard to find something you can do outside honeywell in terms of new skills. I found that working on outside projects improves my mental state at Honeywell and gives me a sense that even if all the aerospace folks shut down tomorrow I could still make a living with my hobbies. This includes taking interviews outside Honeywell, preferably in very diverse fields. Much of the angst for me was just this sense that Honeywell owned me and fear of the unknown. Interviewing and job hunting puts me back in control even if the axe is always looming at my present gig.

To the dude saying someone is pathetic for have a problem being motivated to do his job: Spoken like a true member of the Honeywell management team looking to rif someone to make hmself look good and to save his own a– from getting rif'ed

I changed careers to come to Honeywell. I'd been developing the skills and credentials for that new job over the years. Hon provided what looked like the perfect opportunity to move forward in that career direction, where I could lead continuous improvement that ideally would result in happier customers, happier employees, lower costs, and increased revenue. I was basically left on my own to make this happen, however...no mentoring, budget cuts that nixed training, downsizing of mission-critical personnel, delay by over a year of the (promised) technology required to carry out this mission...all compounded by leadership changes and a sudden demand for new metrics without the software enhancements needed to generate those metrics that would show the value added thus far.

Within a short timeframe I'd gone from elation over this great opportunity to absolute misery over the impossibility of making any headway at all in this constricting environment. It was like dancing backwards in high heels, and then they came with the blindfold, and then the handcuffs...

When it gets like that for you, when it's impossible to do the job you were hired to do (yet the job still needs to be done), it's time to leave. If you wait too long and keep trying to make it work, you might get lucky and get RIF'ed like I did.

You are pathetic, and don't deserve the job you have. Motivation should not come from the people around you, it should come from your own morals and values. The fact that you have no motivation to do your job tells us all we need to know about the type of person you are.

I do it by thinking of my own honor and values. I do my best because I am getting paid. This is a matter of self respect. When honeywell rifs me or I get so disgusted that I leave, I will never look back at this abomination. Also want to support the many good, decent folks that need help so they can continue to be productive and they have families to think about. When I cam no longer tolerate their behaviour, I will resign and no longer accept their money.