Long ago when I took my first job with Honeywell (Garret, back then) joining a global company, it didn’t meant just securing a job but securing your future for you’d know joining a global brand meant being with the company till retirement. It was by no means being complacent about your work but it removed the fear of losing your job so that you concentrate in delivering your best for your career.
How things have changed. People have started to cringe when they hear Honeywell and would rather work with mom and pop shops for the many layoffs heard. No longer is big global brands such as Honeywell offering the same level of ease as they used to. Walking thru’ those corridors each day sends an eerie feeling down my spine that anyone could be next.
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Age 52 (+-2 years) is the magic number to be RIF terminated if you have 10-plus years of service. It’s all about the money and cost of existing employees.
@2hwn is correct in the statement that outsourcing is nothing new.
There were massive cuts (15,000+ employees) in the 2000-2005 time frame in Aero & Automotive. Plants in Southern California and Phoenix that were completely shut down and outsourced to Mexico, Czech Republic, Romania and several other countries.
@1mad+1ad2pSn5 – when your hair turns grey you get cut.
Where have you been? You are describing a phenomenon that existed 20 years ago or more as if its a 2020/2021 phenomenon.
I'm with you 100% When I first hired on in 1968, AiResearch was considered one of the best places to work in the Valley, if not the best – Motorola was good, but Garrett AiResearch was better. Over the next 50 years or so (10 year hiatus from '70 to '80) I worked in Project (when that was a good thing), Operations and finally Material & Process Engineering. I carved out a specialty dealing with castings, which are usually the longest lead time items in any engine and fairly complex to deal with and a small supplier base, not like machining where there are hundreds of options. You have to actually work with the suppliers and develop trust both ways.
The end came three years ago when MM decided that we needed to re-source many castings, with a time frame of 8-10 months. The Almighty couldn't transition a complex casting (needs substantiation) in under 18-24 months, so Project 248 (or whatever it was) was destined to failure before it even started. I pointed all this out and retired on the spot, certainly not the end of a career that I anticipated after 35+ years of working with and for people I liked and respected.
Those of you who have hired on in the last five years or so have no idea what I'm talking about, but this used to be such a wonderful place to work. Sad.
Its all being offshored. Contractors are used locally rather than permanent hires.
Don't be told what you want
Don't be told what you need
There's no future
No future
No future for you
Job Security at HW is like going to C-sino and hope win some at the night end. Keep looking and hoping, my friends
lol don't use job security and Honeywell in same sentence. They don't mix.
Job security at Honeywell is like the NFL. If you get hurt you get cut. At Honeywell if you fail you get cut
I had the same feeling. It is disgusting what Honeywell has become. It is a very unamerican company!