Is there a single person on your team you could afford to lose? Honeyhell seems to believe so with all the new layoffs (even if they're mostly small rounds) but that's not the reality. The reality is that if we lose more people, things will start to fall apart. Those are facts but for some reason, they're being ignored once again.
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No, its true indeed. There are some shady managers/directors that will set their reports tasks in HPD so that they can use it for their own HPD. Usually internal business initiatives and the like, I have witnessesed it first hand. Not much here is done for the good of the business, more for the good of an executive bonus.
@jerc+1nLEJAVM, why was that not obvious? Shouldn't employee goals align with business goals? Would you support a basketball team member who purposely shoots hoops for the opposing team? The business has a team leader and all team member's goals should align with the team's goals.
I am so stupid, now I realize why my director always wanted my HPD goals to align with his because he was using our output to prop his own metrics! It is so obvious now!
The only thing leadership cares about is meeting their metric (HPD) so they get their bonus no matter the cost. They only need to survive a few years in their current position before they move to another company / divisions pretending to have experience to execute a role they have no prior experience.
We'd shed the PE. Useless, demanding, incompetent and a general drain on the project. Please remind us all how that one very small project you worked the end of qualifies you in any technical design decision...it's really the best joke of the night around those of us that do the work. Cee u next Tuesday.
My VP. 100% waste and drag on the payroll. A real grifter so naturally he fits right in with the ALT in aero.
The best strategy is to kick out experienced workhorses right before some project enters final phase. That cripples the development for months until others catch up. But then the project is already delayed and many times ready for being cancelled as being considered ineffective thanks to delays...
@1mmn+1nLEJAVM You must work in ISC SPS too! I feel the same way!
Does not matter, we had one guy who could hold things together and get us back on track and they Riffed him just before Christmas. We are f@cked now.
We have already lost the people that mattered or could do the job, in fact my team would work better if we lost some of the god awful hires from the last few years especially our director.
Everyone is dispensable in corporate culture. Ain't no one that valued, not even the CEO. For if we truly relied on an individual to keep the busines afloat, we'd definitely be in trouble
Start to fall apart? Lol
Our products fell apart five years ago in aero.
Maybe 10 depending on the design site.
Ask our customers.
Heard one say we make products the same way we make politicians…. Ouch!
"Please, if their jobs were so important they would teach it in college as a classes."
What an executive said about aero engineers and experience.
I feel it a bit different. There are plenty of competent good guys who can do a lot. But they are constantly being demotivated by furloughs, layoffs, job uncertainity, manager changes, forced office space sharing, frequent travel freezes, procurement freezes, hiring freezes etc etc.
Per capita, Honeywell has the least competent employees I’ve ever seen. I’d say that if the smartest one or two people on each, say, 10-person team, could have more autonomy and decision making authority, every such team could shed half (in many cases, it would be addition by subtraction). No imagination, no baIIs, no ability for most there to think about doing things any differently than Honeywell’s weird-azz way of doing things.
You have no idea how Honeywell actually makes money. You still think it is all about designing, manufacturing, and shipping products. That is the old way. Honeywell is a brand name. They don’t need anything but the brand … everything else goes.
I have heard several high ranking people say employees are like gloves take one pair off and put another pair on
In reality they could care less.