Is there anywhere within the company that is ok to work with a decent culture? At this point, I don’t even need it to be enjoyable—just not toxic. My group is rough. Unrealistic expectations, low resources, no willingness to hear input. I’ve been at 3M awhile and wondering if it’s worth exploring other groups within the company, or better to cut my losses. Is anyone happy??
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Marketing is a perfect place to work. No one knows what bg marketing, division or activiation marketing does, so no one can take you accountable… nice!
The WORST places to work right now are any place that has to report up metrics (OTIF, OEE, etc) as these numbers will undoubtedly be subpar and will result in SVP micromanaging your boss, who in turn will make life miserable for you.
Even with Tireman leaving, the metrics obsession will only intensify. BB scolding " the team" on a quarterly earnings call with Wall Street on OTIF shows you why he was so despised at his former company.
Any IT system global deployment group is a good place, like global labelling, global CRM, global VC, global SAP, global blablabla... No one would know what you do, your boss would be in other country and you would be free to work from home.
I am in IT and have not always been happy but am happy now. I think so much depends on who you directly work for. When I have been miserable, it was tied very closely to the fact that I worked for a horrid boss. I have left IT twice and came back both times. My happiness in my career has more been who I was working with and if the work itself was the right level of challenge and interest for me.
Nowadays there are just too many dashboards to report. Tireman used to say get rid of Non-value added reports, but he doesn't say that anymore now.
For manufacturing plants there is SVP personally reviewing OEE performance. Imagine why does 3M need such a high paying executive level to look at OEE details?
Mikey was clueless as was Monish when not around the fairer s-x. Billy Boy knows exactly what he's doing. His toxic style is imposed on his leadership team which then amplify it on the next layer until the frogs realize they are in progressively hotter water.
The frogs finally jump out of the pan and leave without a severance. Which means more money for BB and tireman.
Welcome to Minnesota Nasty
Agree with everything you just said, but have even darker interpretation of “Leadership doesn’t understand the burnout is real and people are on the verge.” I think they do understand, and it’s a strategy to get people to leave the company to shrink the workforce as cheaply as possible. Sure seems like Bill Brown thinks in general 3Mers are a bunch of bumbling mo--ns. In reality, it’s that we had a very few bunch of bumbling mo--ns who are in leadership positions for the last few years.
I’ve been there 10 years and it’s gotten progressively worse. They’ve cut too deep and implemented systems and processes which create administrative burdens and frustration between groups. No new innovation but expectations of growth. He been in healthcare, industrial and global positions. I don’t think it’s going to get better. Leadership doesn’t understand the burnout is real and people are on the verge. Just keep preaching to us about safety as we walk safely out the door. People are now doing 2-3 jobs for the same pay.
I can tell you that IBO is run by a manic narcissist who prioritizes in-person seating and pointless administrative busy-work over actual productivity.
My experience was in “IT/Digital”. Very toxic. I left.
It’ll help to describe your current function and what you might be interested in doing.