I’m a new director to Honeywell (4 months). I’m completely shocked my the lack of professionalism and communication skills. People don’t respond to meeting invites, ignore email, read texts/don’t respond and don’t call back. Free for all. The folks at the site only do what they want, no partnership with corporate functional leaders. Why has the culture devolved to this?
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Absolutely correct. It's not rudeness or unprofessional behavior. There are just way too many fires to put out that have been created by incompetent management. There are far too many meetings by too many directors, program managers, and project engineers. And none of them seem to know how to use the scheduling assistant function of Outlook meeting notices. About 95% of the meetings they call should be emails. Between COVID and the Great Resignation, the drain on talent has been severe. And the big wigs don't seem to get it and don't care. My team is so understaffed that I can only answer emails and go to the meetings of the most critical programs that I support. And that's determined by revenue and/or penalty clauses in the contracts for gaping customers' aircraft production lines.
Unfortunately at times its everyone for themselves. Your goals and priorities are not the same as mine, I have my own marching orders and masters to serve. Also with the 9-block rating systems, my peers are my competitors, so I have no motivation to see them succeed at the expense of my rating. So we are behaving exactly the way system was designed to make us do.
Dear “new director”, I’m sorry you’re not properly getting your a-s kissed like you’re used to. Not sure what division you’re in but in Aero those of us that are long timers have seen some sh-t, I’m sure all divisions are the same at this point. We’re like shell shocked soldiers just hanging on through our PTSD and anytime things are changing like oh- maybe a company split- we sort of know some of us will get let go. It’s like the last meal before we go to battle and not all of us will make it out alive. We all have a lot more on our minds than more pointless meetings, we’ve been there done that and none of it will matter in the end. Just keeping head low trying to get work done while we can. I been here 20 years and have no faith in this company anymore.
I’m just curious. Were you hired from within the company?
They always hire people without any credentials or experience. If you’re brought in from Elliot management, they’ll have to replace everybody with people that know what they’re doing.
@OP "I’m completely shocked my(sic) the lack of professionalism and communication skills". As a director you should set a good example by proofreading before posting.
I had the same issues when I was there. Eventually I asked myself “does not responding to this email or not attending this meeting pose risk to the project?” The answer was always “no” and I then realized I had a pretend, non-impact corporate email job that could be done entirely on Outlook
@OP We’re getting far too many requests and are being pulled in every direction, which inevitably leads to things being ignored. Each new director introduces additional requirements, reports, and metrics, yet none of it addresses the underlying issues. What we need is meaningful growth, not more reports, more meetings, or more metrics that don’t drive real results.
It's called "Quiet Quitting".
Quiet quitting is when employees do only what their job requires, withdrawing extra effort without leaving their job. I lowered my efforts to this level during the Covid era.
10 years ago it used to be quite normal company. It changed a lot. RIFs, almost zero increases, benefits removed, shared space offices, constant changes, everything blocked including wifi or personal email, zero care about employees.. so what is the result? Employees do not care about the company as response.
Which of my three email addresses should I respond too? Did you book every meeting at 10am because the calendar was free? I have nine (9) meeting notices for ten am today because calendars don’t work. What the he-l is a phone? I haven’t had a desk phone for ten years and don’t know how to dial out from teams..
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"Unprofessional"? Honeywell may be many things, but unprofessional is not one of them...
Yup, on the Automation side this has resulted in a culture of escalating up the chain until some GM or VP says something and then it rolls all the way back down to whomever was supposed to do the work anyway. It’s basically created an organizational bottleneck in each individual silo because nobody feels empowered to make a decision. It also leads to defaulting decisions with functions that have more firm requirements such as Legal and ISC because they have external regulatory and compliance things to lean on to drive decisions. Not a good way to run an enterprise and it’s starting to bite. It will only get worse after the split.
We are asked to do too much with what little time we have. So people prioritize what will keep them from immediately being fired.
Every time Honeywell decided to make things worse for employees, the employees made corresponding cuts to their productivity.
Now, after so many cycles, we have what we have today. Honeywell barely tolerates us, and we barely care about the work.