Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

Mexican HOS guy booted out a long time ago. Think he went to Seimens Ottawa (Epocal) the guy was no good for anything. Useless!! He talked at lot and laughed until your ear drums hurt.
Terrible, ugly laugh! I have to give him CREDIT for one thing he did really, really well..he talked to everyone, asked a lot of questions, pretended he was against them and had you talking in no time. YOU KNOW...what he did with the information? He went back to management and told them what you said..but told them in a different context. A real SLIMY SNAKE. Couldn't trust the guy at all.

HOS = Increased productivity and decreased head count. Seems like Ottawa can't do it themselves so HW does it for them. It's called RIFs!!! Less people to do the work, automatically applies pressure to the rest of the folks to get the widgets done & out the door.
Simple math folks!!!

What happened to the Mexican HOS guy? Thought he was going a great job.

Yes, we are p$ssed off!!! The environment is very toxic but the employees are even more toxic. Don't walk down the hall with someone behind you...there likely to $tab you in the back..seriously. The toxic employees are only there because they can't get jobs anywhere else.

You guys in Ottawa were pi$$ed off when EMS bought you and fought it the whole time.
It's been almost 10 years since Honeywell bought EMS. You got pi$$ed off even more and you have fought it ever since. That's a lot of years of fighting. You must be a miserable person.

NEWS: Honeywell Buys Life Sciences Software Group Sparta Systems For $1.3 Billion. Hareware is out, software is in. Start your job search now.

For years Honeywell Ottawa has been known as an "employer of last resort" in Canada's declining aerospace and defence sector.

What makes a good boss a leader? Ability to post on the topic of the thread is a good start.

Ottawa is exempt from a lot of things ...including strong leadership..ha. Shame seeing great site being run into the ground.
A rudderless ship

What makes a good boss a leader?
Please leave your comnents.

Ottawa exempt??? Why the he$$ would Ottawa be exempt? Other sites are going through such hard times. Management is riding our coats tails all the time..they desperately need revenue to meet this quarter.

@OP must be the same chucklehead that posted this:
https://www.thelayoff.com/t/14NKEJeR

You suit folks...can take your LEAN manufacturing and shovel it right back to where you came from. Thats right where it belongs. This is still EMS SATCOM!!

Next year will be the tough one for sure. Shelves are bare and Honeywell is persona non grata with the global supply chain for delaying payments to vendors. You should hear what they say when I call to check status every day.
No worries.. There is a job waiting for JH at Lear seating.

Transition coming soon

Who cares about Lean when there is revenue to be made in the books. Its an advertising tool to let our customers know that we have a eye on cost to pass on the best value to them...not.
JH, the lapdog of ISC, has great big plans sadly, lost his rudder together with his band of merry men. Wait for the Q4 results and there will be a pat on the back for a great year that it was and the e bands that had their pay docked by 10 percent will have it returned back to them 2 folds only to realize that they dug a big gap to fill for next year. Hang on folks, its gonna be another rollercoaster ride.

Manufacturing engineer says "lean" and means the flow is good and no wasted steps.
Vp says lean ( talking to you JH) and they mean minimal work by honeywell.

All you have to do is follow a returned part from boeing or airbus to understand the insanity of the contract manufacturer strategy that mad mike and his staff push. In the old AME once I personally tracked a part that travelled around the world for any simple repair (including scratches).
Pack your bags...here we go...Eur>Eur>US>US>Asia>CM>Asia>US>US> Eur>Eur. Almost a year. Best case.
I wonder what the shipping cost was? I could never find it. We still do this every day.
Nothing mattered other than making sure only the contact manufacturer in asia did the work.
I'm sure they got an award for saving $50 on every unit.. who cares about the customer.
There is some bias in ALT to think other manufacturers can do what we cannot.. regardless of the history or even current results .

Management is the laughing stock but so to was the old management. They will never change old dogs habits :)

Gawlee...Lean..what's that!!

it's funny but we spent a lot of hours like 10 to 12 hours a days during many Kaizen events during the mid to late 90s. Then when HOS started to rear it's ugly wasteful head we undid a lot of the hard earned lean processes improvements. Kiinda like when Bob Johnson ran Aero before DC became head ax man. They reduced the band 5 VPs by 50 % but within 3 or 4 years all had been replaced and additional added. Lean? NOT! Go Figure

Zackly. 'cept gains are quicker. For one most people are more productive because the new jobs and skills re-engage their interest and job satisfaction due to the break from the same old routine. People are learners at their core.

Honeywell has no idea what lean means. If done right, they would staff at 150% of demand. That extra 50% is to focus on cross training, process improvement, and the unscheduled work that comes in unplanned.

The next year you stay 150% staffed, but you need less people because of the skill and process improvement.

The cycle repeats, and after 5 years or so you get higher output with fewer people than you started with.

I've seen it work. It fails when some id–t thinks they can simply let 10% of the people go after a process mapping session.