Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

Same for patents.
Your odds of getting them approved increases dramatically if you make someone on the reviewing board a co inventor.

The indentured and the weak-minded feel exalted to be working there ... happy just to show up and warm a chair.

The standard here is 'nice idea but it won't work' then your manager/director goes off and proposes it as his own iniative.
Or in my case, I build a program, do a bulk of work and my Director hands it over to someone else without even telling me.
I guess this way he gains ownership and suckers some other poor fool to finish it for him before presenting to his bosses.
Pathetic little man.

Welcome to corporate. If you are below certain level, all your ideas are flushed down the toilet unless your boss can say on some meeting above, that he is the author or at least that HIS TEAM found something. And if you are above certain level, whatever stupid idea you have can be realized easily even if it cripples effectivity, brings additional meetings, additional webpages and ki-ls huge amount of workhours.

I and my co-workers continually work to improve our processes. Not because of Honeywell, but just to make our own lives easier. Honeywell doesn't understand anything about what we do or how our business works. I'm down to about 10-15 hours a week and I still meet all of my assigned objectives with room to spare. Some weeks I work much more, but I make sure to make up for that extra effort in the next few days. I wouldn't feel this way if I had any reasonable ownership in Honeywell, but that is the way "they' have set it up. Honeywell's inability to sell stuff makes my life much easier!

Same. I’ve got ideas I could give, but I’m not giving them. The engineers straight up stole the last one from me and no one cared. So f$$$ them. I’ve refused to give them anything more than the bare minimum ever since. Why should I?

Doing your part? You haven't even started.
Take a turn online posting opposition reviews on glassdoor.
Visit a college and mentor some aspiring engineers toward more profitable companies.

Stop an old lady at walmart from buying a POS rebranded third-world air purifier manufactured by 14 year olds earning 3000 yuan a month just to survive.

It's the same old corporate song and dance. Pit one Business group against the other. This has been going on for 30+ years that I've been in a corporate culture. Talk to someone from the "other" group and they'll tell how great you guys are doing. Meanwhile, we are told how great "they" are doing. This totally leads to distrust of management. I am almost out of here. It's just going to take a little time.

Yes I have also done the same. Got tired of india getting credit for things I would come up with. Management had to make india appear to be a success.

Absolutely. There was a time I was fully committed until I realised the chain of dishonesty. What I thought I was doing to progress my team and hopefully my own career turned out to be only propping up my director who is claiming mine and others efforts as his own.
I could handle that to some degree if it was going to help grow the team, win us investment or if we received some recognition for our work but that was never going to happen. He just assigns us unbillable side work (which we had to claim against active projects and pi-5 off the project PM's) so that he has a set of his own deliverables every year for his HPD and hence boost his bonus. He is a master of looking busy and doing nothing. He always smiles and hypes the team but NEVER delivers on his promises and worst still he will clip anyones wings if he perceives them as too ambitious or a threat. It is a sneaky game and an impressive charade that had me fooled for the first year however once I realised the game I put the breaks on. I am of course persona non grata now but I don't care, I will soon be out. No one cares for great work here, they just want to climb the back of others. The snakes thrive here and I hate it.