He retired ten years ago. He only has positive things to say about his former employer. Listening to him makes me sad sometimes. I've been with HON for seven years and I can't wait to leave. Most of my generation (and no, I'm not a millennial) feels the same. This is not just a HON issue, either. I think the time when the relationship between a company and its employees was based on mutual respect and everybody worked towards the same goal of bettering things for everybody is long gone. This is the new reality.
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Very true I've been a employee for 16 years I should have left a long time ago I guess I'm the looser here. 16 years later bad compensation this company never cared.
@2hlw I don't have any skin in the game but...
The company that I worked for was acquired by Hon a few years after the Allied buyout.
Slotted into Aero. I have worked with folks that worked at Allied, Honeywell, Bendix, Garrett, Sperry, the list goes on and on.
One common theme, each thought their former company was great and the others ruined everything. Never heard an ex Allied guy say we are better off now or an ex Honeywell guy say we are better off now.
I wish Honeywell never acquired my company too.
Hey people, if you didn't know, Honeywell has been long gone, this company is actually AlliedSignal that bought Honeywell in 1999 for $14.8 billion. They kept Honeywell name because they ruined AlliedSignal reputation and didn't want to associate with that name. But instead of getting rid of their old toxic culture they brought it with them to Honeywell (after letting most old Honeywell management go) and ruined Honeywell too.
Just like Satan changed his name to Saint Hon, the devil can never become saint, it's the same old evil AlliedSignal. If any of you worked for AlliedSignal before the merger should know them better.
I retired after 20 years at Honeywell, and saw the gradual decline you are living in now. I joined Honeywell because my former employer was ahead of the curve in alienation of employees, so I was able to witness the disillusionment twice!
While I am grateful to both companies, and am comfortable with the retirement I am able to enjoy only due to good timing more than anything, I still wonder how it would have felt if that respect you mentioned had stayed.
There are still some companies out there that have the values you seek, if you need to leave, take your time and choose carefully.
I for one am done with it.
India and china are big boys and dont need my help.
Said goodbye to honeywell and i dont miss the bs.
Want my help?
$1k an hour from doorstep to doorstep.
Your dad retired with a pension and probably health benefits.
He got a grandfather clock when he retired.
That generation has no idea how an E2 feels...alone, mistrusted, no chance of retirement.
By the time i have a shot at retiring the dollar will have collapsed and there will be no social security.
Interesting perspective. Despite a very trusted maternal input, OP still finds the industry disappointing.
Here's where it's actually a detriment to hire legacies. Their families will know of better times and have the free path to express. Backfire on isle 4.
Adding to the previous post, a company that makes little to no investment in their employees has no incentive to keep them if they can find cheaper, lower maintenance resources. That is why we find ourselves on this site.
Agree with OP. I came to HW from another industry and they started the same dirty tricks in the late '90s...replacing pensions with 401k, cutting 401k contributions, constantly cutting health benefits, eliminating PTO carryover, eliminating remote work, cutting training and onboarding programs, cutting professional society memberships and paid conferences, moving degreed professionals from offices to cubes to smaller cubes to carrels to hotdesking, requiring X% to XX% offshored resources, replacing flagship product originators with H1bs, and the list goes on. Within 10 years of the start of this, the company's tech offerings dropped from #1 to #3 in the industry.
This started after the company pulled in a well known consulting firm and replaced HR with people from another country where people are a dime a dozen and do not complain about things being taken from them because they never had anything to begin with. As if this would go over well in the US, where our predecessors fought and unionized for better working conditions, at least in factories.
US office workers have not organized to demand an end to what I'll call "workplace shrinkage", and should look to Europe for guidelines on setting boundaries on what a company can demand from their office workers. HW milks this crack in the system to the extreme to get blood out of us turnips.
Very true. It is a completely us against them way of life. IMHO its a please wall street first employee last mode of operating.