Thread regarding 3M layoffs

The best part of this evening is...

Knowing that a bunch of execs are at the conference and drinking heavily during "networking" time. They are likely reading these posts and commenting what ungrateful bstrds we are for posting here and feeling this way. Probably collectively laughing at the misfortune and boiling over with the biting commentary that we can't say to their faces.

Of course, what is not good is the booze is being paid for by shareholder money, as are the rooms and 1st class flights and all the perks.

Hey tireman, what number scotch are you on by now!

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Hard to "trust the process" when Mike and Pete are steering bull, and lying to our faces about amount of spend by management being reduced on themselves, and Executive level layoffs and so called cuts at COC level. They consistently pay lip service to eliminating layers of beauracrcy and levels of management when these two have done nothing but bloat, and elevated higher paying roles that are purely non-value added leadership spots for well connected individuals , and initiatives and roles that the customer is simply not willing to pay for. Go back 20 years, 3M has never in history had so many high paying leadership roles that have no direct impact on products made or sold, or COGS until last 3 years. At the same time they ground and cut our sales and marketing staffs, and customer service groups, without giving customer clear direction or advice beyond go to our website, and demand data they neither need, or understand. The E-commerce site they tout is absolute crud and not well thought out. Paying 3rd party distributors, not well thought out, or planned and will be poorly executed for new marketing and sales. They are completely spitballing blind, and throwing out words. Both talk a good game about digitization, analytics, emerging new markets, and technology and cutting out the cr-p and crud in Supply chain, and manufacturing being focused without listening to people in their own manufacturing organizations that can drive these type of changes. Gibbons needs to stop talking about Starbucks and learn something about our 3M products and what would excite 3M Employees. We are adhesives, material science company that assemble's commercial products, and sub con consumer goods, not coffee or retail. Those story's about bleak times at Starbucks retail, inspire nobody at 3M and will not translate. These two are focused on self preservation, not rallying the troops to grow and build 3M on a new path forward, especially with a ton of people that have been through internal tumult for 10 to 20 years. We are just cost and tired I guess. Without fresh voices, and new top leaders, this company will continue to whiter on the vine. You need credibility to drive change. We owe nobody anything beyond what we are obligated to do when the same voices lead with zero real changes, tune out, refuse to listen, and we are surrounded by yes men and women that bow down to the same masters. When 5 years of the same old same old will not drive results or change, and ZERO accoutability for mistakes, failed redsigns and repacked consultant packages, no wonder we are failing and tuning out. We would be better off splitting up the entire company and adding new leaders. 3M needs fresh voices to lead. This Apple is far to rotten to keep whole.

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C'mon cut them some slack....they are getting battered and will get battered at the town halls...just look at the incoming bazooka of angry but honest questions coming in...keep it coming lads and lasses

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