Can you believe that an employee who's been with Honeywell for almost two decades is now praying to get laid off? What does that even say about our company? I'm seriously questioning the state of things here if people are hoping to get the boot instead of sticking around. Something's gotta change, or we're in deep trouble.
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“Make more bricks, slaves. I will give you no more straw…or copy paper”
Yep..all this company does is work their employees harder and harder with diminishing returns and perks of doing so. Each quarter it's "wE NeEd tO hIt tHiS neXT sHiP cOmMit"!!! So we do, then management sends out emails thanking everyone for the hard work but "we have a tough road ahead of us" messaging comes through. Ok, so then we get through that road and then when it comes time for raises and such...empty pockets. It's getting REALLY old and as a 16 year band 4 veteran, I've had enough. Mad dog and his lapdog H.P just living it up making millions in bonuses while the rest of us eat sh!t getting 3% raises. HON is going to have a REAL problem on their hands when enough of us leave and the people who remain can't even navigate SAP or understand the aerospace business. After having driven out all the knowledge base and no one left to train the new people, this is now a snowball effect that cannot be stopped. I refuse to train anyone and bail these scvmbags out, I'd rather quit. Till then I just keep hoping to be on the next RIF list!
Always an army of H1-Bs or offshore grunts willing to assume the position with eating grins on their faces.
There are many of us with the golden handcuffs. No stability and everyone above is new. It's a revolving door. Changes are made without SME input so everything is falling apart.
I have lost count of the take aways.
Remember the email that they forced the cfo to write trying to claim once a year 401k match was better? I emailed a copy to the dean of his mba school for kicks.. is this what you teach?
Worse are the actual hazards..
Listening to leadership brag about spending money to renovate clearwater when it was a literal health hazard. i saved the emails telling me i could not replace the moldy carpet due to asbestos below it.. and yes my office tested positive for black mold. I took pictures of the signs saying the cafeteria was closed for health violations. Every day i walked past the ground water remediation pumps that try to dissipate the spilled carcinogens by evaporation. (Trichloroethelyne i imagine like the other honeywell sites).
Said goodbye and dont miss it a bit. My kid was smarter and lasted only a few years.
He will sue for me one day when i get cancer.
15 years in. It’s pretty standard for them to remove benefits and perks. They usually do it quietly, at least one a year. I’ve never seen them give anything extra or give anything that was taken away back (and one memorable year they took away raises that had already been given out- that was a special kind of f-u from the top). You do not get rewarded for going above and beyond either. Your reward is just more of a workload. It has never gotten better in my time with the company, only worse. Last 5 years the “worse” has accelerated by a lot. Toxic culture too. It’s really bad. I’m looking to leave ASAP.
Same for me as well. Over 20 years, made it to Director. I saw things that made me so angry that I left shortly after being promoted to Director. I was powerless to push back. If you don’t go along with the immoral flow downs then you are quickly canned.
Left on my own accord.
It’s shocking how much I hear from tenured employees at HW that the company used to do a lot for them in the way of pensions and benefits. The sad fact is that much of that was taken away and new talent is smart enough to look at the whole package before jumping onboard. Also after reading feedback on boards like this would scare me away,
I didn't hope or pray, I came up with a plan. Keep doing a mediocre job, act reasonably happy like all's well and when they ask for volunteers jump at the opportunity. Do not share your plan or the fact that you volunteered with anyone. Head down, Mouth shut. The second time that I volunteered, I was accepted. 26 weeks of severance and insurance.
Between promoting the undeserving, quotas for lower elbow (the will deny and lie about this to their own mother), MRR process that decides your fate before they have your results, taking away resources, but expecting you to excel:
this is just the tip of the iceberg on what drives Honeywell veterans to pray for an exit.
At some point you’re either part of the problem listed above or you want out of this Place.
Not just Honeywell. Welcome to the end of consumerism for the globe.
That’s me as well. I even got a stellar review, bonus and raise. I’d take my severance in a heartbeat.