If you joined within the last year or two, do you regret it or do you still think you made the right choice? I have a feeling I know what most of the answers are going to be, but who knows, maybe I'll end up surprised.
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This is the first time I have commented on this board as it is not usually my thing.
I joined SPS a few years back, moved my family here and was made lots of promises to persuade me. Money is important but not my biggest motivator (which is just as well since my salary has not really changed since starting considering furloughs, freezes and inflation) but being successful in my job is VERY important to me, I once had a career delivering great products and LOVED my job! I was told how much freedom and opportunity I would have at Honeywell and that I would thrive, HA!
Today I feel ashamed working here, the last 2 years particularly have been the darkest of my life.
The negligence of leadership is a total disgrace, I am unable to perform my job due to the complete incompetence and malaise across every team I work with including my own and I have a director who never seemingly has any budget. I spend most of my time in a never ending bureaucratic loop answering to id--ts explaining how they should do their job (not that they care) and barely getting time to be productive.
I am beat down and feel like I have lost a good chunk of years in my career, it will be hard to explain such pathetic showing for Honeywell in my next job. Thankfully my wife has realized enough is enough and has agreed to leave, she does not like the area anyhow and the kids area at an age where a change won't really disrupt them. If you care about your job or have any integrity, please do not come to work here. It has been by far the worst decision of my life.
@4izk+1nfqlDty You sir have perfectly summed up working for SPS!
Don’t kid yourself you are anything more than an EID. No matter how much value you have added to the business. When it’s time for the business to make cuts, the number of heads and $ are all that matter. Speaking from experience having been RIF’d after nearly 30 yrs of working my butt off for HW.
I regret that the principals of my previous companies owners chose to sell to Honeywell. From what I hear, they do to.
There is a flipside.
Honeywell was a horrrible, soul su-king experience for me however on the bright side I am now super resilient in the major corporation I now work for whose politics and morales are almost saintly in comparison.
When my colleagues here complain I laugh hard, they have no idea, I am so much more mentally healthier and tougher after serving my time in Honeyhell.
Left Honeywell after over 28 years a few months before they closed the doors of the Greer R & O facility. Walked away from 26 weeks of severance pay, but in the end, I had employment and benefits when COVID hit.
I can honestly say that I do not miss the toxic work environment that festers at Honeywell. Walking out the door for the last time left me elated and feeling like a huge weight had been lifted off of me.
It was rough at times, but I don't regret it. I learned what pitfalls to avoid and that makes me better for my new employer. The HON experience also makes me appreciate my current career path/employer and helps me keep things in perspective.
The tragic operations in Canada are a revolving door. Only the thickest dolts remain there because they are literally unhireable in any functioning organization.
Been here for a year and am actively interviewing. Need to get out ASAP. Every day I want to pick up the phone and tell my manager to go fu-k herself.
Came and went within a year. Once I saw how this place really runs, I was out.
Absolute waste of my life, I can not tell you how stupid I feel accepting this job. They lied to me through and through. Fortunately I have already setup my next job but it has cost me dearly already by having to move states.
I am furious, every aspect of Honeywell is despicable.
The absolute worst engineering teams I have ever had the misfortune to work with, they do not even understand fundamentals. We have zero budget to play with and what we do have is wasted on hours of meetings with people at all levels trying to figure out how to do their job. The leadership is just mind blowing, how on earth did these clowns get these positions. A load of nonsense from engineering, complete BS from 'design/HUE' and my marketeers are all dinosaurs. All the good sales guys have run off into the distance and the 'dial a third world country' IT and HR that take literal months to get back to you with the wrong answer. Unless you are a completely talentless loser (the seemingly best qualification) you will totally regret joining this he11hole.
This is like OceanGate submarine. We are going to implode just like they did.
There will be no survivors.
Another Walmart style sweatshop now, where only the H-1B or the new immigrant gravitate.
I have my company cell phone set to "do not disturb" from 5:00 pm till 7:00 am. Unless I I am in the field or I have someone in the field working on one of my projects. Got to take care of customers and fellow techs.
I’ve had a pretty good experience so far but I’m on the older side and have no illusions of staying past my welcome. HON is notably bad at internal career development
@1xei+1nfqlDty Since discovering the VOE is actively being used to single out employees and is NOT anonymous then what choice do you have if you want to stay off the radar. For those questioning the anonymity investigate the T&C's. Our last director told us when he quit that they quietly segment the team into into smaller groups and that is how they can judge which comments and likely scoring came from who.
To keep my d-mb a-s manager off my back for the voe, I went though and put all 5s. This way he couldn't come down on me for telling the survey how sh---y this company really is. I wonder who else does this? This would explain the rise in scores even though it keeps progressively worse each year.
I've been here 16 years and I regret coming here. I gave this company the best years of my life thinking that it counted for something. I thought that my hard work would be noticed and recognized. Boy was I stupid! If knew back then what I know now, I would have just used Honeywell for a paycheck while I looked for a real job. It really sucks this is the way it has turned out.
But I cannot control it, I can only react to it. This is why I quiet quit about a year ago. I never answer my phone or emails outside of working hours, I used to work long hours and weekends; those days are long gone. Honeywell only seeks to exploit employees and reward bootlickers and a-s-kissers.
Mad dog surrounded himself with siccofants and mo--ns so he wouldn't feel out of place. I'm just waiting for the inevitable RIF so I can volunteer for it and make the company pay me my severance. Truth be told I don't even need the money, I just feel better about being a drain on the payroll and making them pay me for a months after I leave. I'm sure they will just offshore a few more jobs to offset it.
Yes everyone does. Even those here for 25 years
OH BOY Is this another VOE thing to see how bad Honeywell is LOL
@OP Do you regret having the horrible lot in life where you have to post questions like this for your overlord?
Do you think you continue to make the right choice by staying at this job?
Being a troll must be a miserable existence but I guess it's a living.
TROLL....probably a tactic to bury recent posts.
I regret not leaving after Honeywell bought my employer. But it is too late now.
Man the HR troll posts here are OUTTA CONTROL lmao