Start your career with a company that has a future. This is not it. 3M was a great place to work years ago and it’s still trying to reel in new talent using the reputation it had years ago. Don’t fall for it. There are many, many better places that will respect you as an employee and that will provide you with the kind of career growth you will not get here for sure.
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What is it going to take before you realize that 3M is dying a slow and painful death?
“Used to be” is the lowest form of communication.
Founders Henry S. Bryan, Hermon W. Cable, John Dwan, William A. McGonagle and J. Danley Budd, are spinning in their graves at the self serving actions of Roman and his gang of miscreants.
The IRS should investigate and determine if the books are being cooked.
Don’t do it! No strategy for growth, and nothing but lawsuits and layoffs ahead.
Some stats I can give you:
In the Pre-Roman days, the non-retirement non-layoff attrition rate for full-time 3Mers hovered around 2%. That is, full-time employees leaving 3M for any other reason than retirement or layoff was about 2% every year, or 1 person in 50.
The rate was so low that non-work related employee deaths, like car accidents, was one of the top causes of employee attrition.
The last attrition rate chart I saw before HR reps got conspicuously quiet on the subject was at 8% and very rapidly climbing. I dare HR to start publishing the numbers again, I strongly suspect 8% would look good compared to today's rate.
This is entirely up to the person that is looking to join. If you are looking for decently high pay with minimal amount of responsibility this would be the perfect time to join.
By the time your manager catches on (I would say if you do a good job quiet quitting they won't really catch on till 6 months) they 1. Don't care and quiet quitting also 2. Have already exited; AKA Ran for the Hills when better opportunity comes along or 3. is close to being or already laid off.
If No. 2 or 3 happens you'll get a refresh start with your new manager and rinse and repeat.
If 3M was the last place on earth to work, I would not work!!! After almost 30 years with this company, I retired with so much disappointment. 3M is no longer the company it used to be. When I first started at 3M, it was about the employees and you were treated well, treated with dignity and respect, it was very difficult to get hired, NO ONE LEFT THE COMPANY!!!! They kept the employees happy, we all loved our jobs, we came to work and because of that we worked hard, did everything to make your Plant the best, no rejects, broke records, we all worked together, had crew meetings to address the issues, we understood what our job was and why our product had to be perfect…. We had pride in our Company and we were proud to be a 3M employee, we bragged about being an employee for 3M. Over the years they stripped everything away from the employee, any perk that kept employees was taken away, eventually it was all taken, that’s when 3M started the continuous turn over, couldn’t keep employees. The ones who stayed were those who had a pension but as time goes on they are all retiring as soon as they can because they are tired of the downward spiral 3M has headed into or 3M is pushing the ones who were once loyal to them. 3M is not THE Company anymore, now with all the lawsuits, listen to people, they have lost the respect for this company, it’s all about the money that they are no longer making. Remember 3M it’s the factory workers who make you money…..GO BACK TO THE BASICS OF HOW 3M WAS FOUNDED - I think you forgot what made 3M one of the greatest companies. Hold people accountable, make it great again!!!!!
More red flags than a Communist parade!
Don’t buy real estate property as 3M leaving 3M Center will ki-l Maplewood, Woodbury, Oakdale market.
Run
The only things I remember from their speeches was RESTRUCTURING.
I suggest anyone considering joining 3M listen to Mike and Monish on the Q2 earnings call.
Listen to how they answer questions and what their strategy sounds like.
Then think about if you want to work for these leaders. Are these the type of 'Generals' you would follow into a war? Do you trust these men with your career? If yes, 3M is for you. If not, run for the hills.
Join hr. U will become a vp in no time.
Even two years ago, I would’ve said “join for a few years to have 3M on your resume.” Sadly, I can’t give that advice today. Save yourself the pain. Look elsewhere.
Company headed for further divestitures and ultimately a Ch 11 reorganization. If you want to work somewhere for a year or two, 3M is fine. If you want to make a career somewhere, it’s not the place. Incompetent upper management and board. They, the board, must know bankruptcy is inevitable or they would have fired MR by now. There is probably a plan for RemainCo in place and it doesn’t end well. This should be a Harvard Business Review case on how to destroy a once great company over a 25-year period.
This company has a serious problem on HOO. Big positions can be left unfilled for months. It has big issues on succession planning
I'm a young millennial.
What I want is to do as little work as possible for the biggest possible paycheck. 3M is great for that.
Just reached four years and I've had five different bosses across two positions. Constant turnover in management means no accountability for us peons.
Long-timers like to complain that us young guys don't work hard, but I attend meetings, send emails, and make slide decks, same as them. Except what takes them 40 hours takes us 5.
it is hard to decipher what the next generations want, the college leavers from the 80s wanted a 30+ year career and wanted to work damn hard for it, similar to the 90s leavers, but then the millenials wanted something different, they challenged historic grievances and rightly so in a lot of aspects of life and work culture, unfortunately the leavers from mid to end of the noughties had one thing extra and it was to think they were working smarter not harder, yes it was really called laziness, and a desire if they did not get their own way to whinge and upsticks and move on to a different career. Mm has made it easier for them as well caving in to their demands with ludicrous DEI valuations, he/she/me pronouns, give over, its embarassing. This is a manufacturing company made great over the year and now finally will go under in the next 12 months.
This is true. 20 years ago 3M was a great place to work, with opportunity and whole buildings full of smart people who want to make the world better.
Today, leadership is full of people who just want make it to retirement and the company itself is a rapidly sinking ship.