I often like to think about leaving HW as a significant turning point in my life (easily for the better). As a result I consider those last few straws as a blessing that helped me see the situation for what it was... a toxic dead end.
What were the events that helped you get off the fence and finally make a move?
Ran out of straws. Turning in my notice
And last but certainly not least.
RUN. GET. OUT. NOW.
No more WFH. Report to closest Honeywell site which was 2 hours away.
The day HR told me i was only allowed to hire "diversity" candidates and then handed me a list of resumes containing zero female candidates and having been clearly filtered by perceived race. I cant handle illegal activity on a corporate scale. (Aerospace)
Had a new job in a month at ge down the street.
Being forced to get the jab despite natural immunity.
Finding out that schedules are just a game to the clowns in upper management. Apparently pre-coordinated ship dates for product can be changed unilaterally at any time in order to artificially pump the monthly and quarterly numbers. They always do it without any notice and then leave that mess for everyone else to sort out.
When I realized that office politics is the primary factor for everything: size of work load, career trajectory, quality of assigned projects (half baked products, nasty customers, excessive travel) etc. I know that some level of this can be expected at any company however this one really takes it to record heights.
You can be a star player and you will still end up with the dirty end of the stick. Meanwhile the deeper you can jam your nose into your boss's rear end... and the harder you throw your peers under the bus... the better your prospects will be.
When I watched others get promoted for doing less than me. When DA came in and my superhuman efforts that resulted in regular 2's and 4's on the nine block were automatically grounds to put me in the 5 block... to ensure that tw-t could get his $500 bottles of wine and a golden parachute at my expense. When I was told in several annual HPD reviews that I had a reputation for being a "40 hour per week employee" (after years of working 45+ hour weeks). And then when I found out that so many people had been told the same thing (about being a 40 hr/week employee) after busting their a$$es, that was it. I now work at a place where I have a real career and I don't get some c@ck and bull story about why the execs get a fat bonus and I get no merit raise.
I couldn't protect my team from the "no WFH" mandate and I wasn't going to fire them for that corporate and HR cr-p. That was the last straw. Then COVID comes along and look what happens - every office employee is WFH. You can't make this $hi! up. HoneyHell lost a lot of good people and continues to bleed talent.
I received a PIP and a couple years later I was laid off. That is when I decided the place wasn’t for me.
First Darius town hall, he starts talking about $500 bottles of wine, while we are supposed to feel good about 2% raises.
CEO totally out of touch, was the final straw to leave.
EEI being forced on the Engineers, but us managers couldn’t talk about it to our staff. In no uncertain terms, managers were told our jobs were directly tied to meeting the EEI goals.
It was an immoral, no win situation, so I left.
I guess I did win after all.
Salary cuts and playing games with the 401k program so management could get their big fat bonus checks
I left a little over two years ago and I'm so glad I did because it seems like it's gotten worse. It was the constant reduction in benefits (pay your own dental?), perks (no international business class travel...even on 20+ hr flights), and inability to work remote. I left for an end user and my benefits are twice as good, and the pay and morale are way better. So glad to leave Honeywell behind.
PIP