Sarasota - what was the date of the Friday afternoon visit - August or September what??
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LOL!
"Bye, Bye Garvey Train...LOL...It;s about time. I hated seeing these people screw the system while most of us were made to be in this hell hole all day long while these people only worked part time while dwawing a full time check."
First, learn to type and/or spell.
Second, working from home is a necessity when working across time zones.
Third, I'm sure I can speak for most telecommuters when I say that I'm way more productive working from home, especially when I don't have to share my office with negative jerks like yourself.
Bye, Bye Garvey Train...LOL...It;s about time. I hated seeing these people screw the system while most of us were made to be in this hell hole all day long while these people only worked part time while dwawing a full time check.
No badging out in SH!
To Mr. Douche-bag....if you have had a work/life balance up till now, then you are a Kandy-A$$. Oh yeah and enjoy your drive in on Monday!!! Ha Ha Ha.. LoL I recommend buy a Volt or Bolt ASAP. I am going to definitely talk $hiyte to everyone I know who was abusing the WFH luxury. Get TF out of town wit dat $hiyte. It is funny because we all (responsible/hardworking types) thought we were doing Honeywell a favor. You can bet the ALT will be looking hard at badge in/out times and idle computer times. If you get a good offer... jump ship.
Sarasota - what was the date of the Friday visit? August/September what?
Just the next step in making the employee a commodity to use and discard as if there if there is no value in the unique talents of each. Dave Cote-ex an Tim F---honey have got their golden eggs from this sh--hole company and could care less about you remaining throw away assets. I am so glad I took the last RIF 3 WEEKS ago.
Hahaha. I said "quit whining". Hahaha. Sounds like you're the reason why Dave wants to do stuff like this. Enjoy your work-life balance!
It's not whining. You are just stup!d enogh not to see that all they want is to absorb your life. You will end up giving up your life to this business. Your life will become your job since your personal life will be a mess. Most probably divorced or never married, alone, bald, bitter and living on miserable home waiting for the next working day to come. At the end of the day your employer will trash you just like a dirt bag that doesn't has any value added to their interests. You'll go through a deep episode of depression once you retire since during your good years you burn all the bridges of family and friends relations. Only then you will remember these words.
You think you are wining by s---ing this policy crap but I can guarantee the price you are paying for this is not enough
You who said quit whining........ YOU ARE A F@CKING MORON! This isn't about the old days idiot. This is about 2016 and work life balance in a time when EVERYONE WORKS! You stupid f@cknozzle. Take your douchebag opinion and shove it up your @ss. Not everyone has the ability to magically take care of their kids on short notice. Not everyone lives where the wind were so light and breezy. Stupid sh1thead, some people have homes farther inland and were inside the warning area. Some people have rental properties on the east coast. So, f@cking whiny d1ckhead, how about YOU get over YOURSELF and realize that WORK-LIFE-BALANCE is a necessity in this day and age. This isn't the time of white picket fences and one parent at home all day, dimwit.
Quit whining! The hurricane caused 25 mph wind in CLW, so you really didn't need to work from home. You're just using that as an excuse to make your point. Everybody wants it to be like the "old days", when companies treated employees differently. Well, guess what? In the "old days", everybody went into the office to work. If you had kids, you figured out what to do with them during the day, while you were at the office.
Dave thanks you...
http://imgur.com/a/rY0Gb
It amazes me that the board of directors can't stop the CEO from throwing a man tantrum and disrupting the entire company because he was offended that they didn't bow down to him when he entered the Sarasota facility. This concept doesn't even make good business sense with how the company is structured across the world and how it requires daily cross funtional teams to meet that span across different time zones. This change doesn't even impact me but it does dishearten me. Why can't we have leadership that has the wisdom and ability to influence the organization in a positive, profitable way? It is like people are purposely letting Cote take the company down, training Darius each step of the way.
Did I miss this announcement? What sites got it already?
Heard from some IT folks that worked on the badge in/out reporting at the security gates. You can be bet people that don't spend at least 40hrs per week physically at the plant will be accused of fraud. Of course you can work extra hours at home (LoL) as long as you are physically at the plant 40hrs per week.
Is Honeywell following Yahoo's initiative? As a fellow telecommuter I was deeply offended when yahoo announced they were cutting the remote option therefore I closed my yahoo account and express that reason on the comment section.
We should not support businesses that do not respect and or promote personal-life balance.
Oh, isn't google more successful than yahoo? Why is Honeywell following the wrong model?
What I want now is a sick day policy set in stone for salaried employees. A lot of my telecommuting days were when I was sick, or when my kids were sick. Believe me, I will now be calling in sick more often.
This guy krish... is bledding honey... He is contracting his ind... friends and they are bleeding this company with bad decisions. You can save money contracting ind. workers but you are sacrify the quality if you see all indian stuff are 90% sht... with no sense
If that is the way they want it, fine. No more late night/early morning meeting with HTS. No more prompt responses to off-hours e-mails. No more putting together reports for Monday morning during the weekend, I'll do that during my 40 hours. When I am sick or the car breaks down, I'll call in and watch Netflix all day. Might as well look for another job, because my performance evaluations will go down because I will no longer put in the extra work that I do. Thanks Tim!!!
Obviously, Flabby Butt ( a.k.a. Dave Cote) and Shim-me Timmy are taking a page out of Marissa Miller's playbook on this one. Banning telecommuting worked so well for Yahoo! that they decided to combine it with furloughs, layoffs, and benefit reductions to get as many people to leave voluntarily as possible. This just makes the flush down the sh1tter go a little bit faster.
Since I telecommute my performance increased 33% per year, as er the evaluations. Even I have not receive any increase salary in the last 3 years, several furloughs and minimum Christmas bonus. I am 1 1/2 hours from the nearest Honeywell facility, so I will get tired and annoyed every day from next week on...seems that none of our "leadership" read professional books...15 to 30% in reduced Company expenses when employees telecommuted.
Hereby announce my boss at Honeywell a Reduction in Performance (RIP) of 33% per year, to adapt to the new policy.
I for one will be s---ing as much out of the buildings as I can. My building is very cold so I think I need about 3 space heaters (hidden of course) running all day (the 7 hours and 58 min I will be at my desk since it is a 1 min walk each way to the gate). I wish I had a plugin car. Maybe I could get a long extension cord and charge it from my cube. It will be my goal to use as many resources as I can while I am in the office. I also think I need multiple color copies of every email. Can't be too safe. Then I need to archive those emails at iron mountain and have the company pay to store them. Gotta go. I have more planning to do...
The company will issue GPS monitors to all employees to track them.
The sick irony here is, this announcement went out on a day when many of us who work in the CLW site are working remotely due to the MASSIVE HURRICANE that just skirted our east coast.
Many if not most people work remotely from time to time, especially when folks are sick and don’t wish to share it with others while continuing to work. I also know some who work from home more often than not. In all cases, these are valuable employees working hard and in many cases they put in more hours when they don't have to spend some of their time making the commute.
This new policy is foolish and ignorant of the need for work-life balance. I wonder how you are even going to enforce it. Big brother going to monitor the IP address you log in with? They going to check badge swipes in and out? Have a tattle tale system for co-workers to use? Force managers to micromanage? Finance going to scour timesheets for "TELECOMMUTING" entries? I mean, seriously, who in their right mind thinks this is a good idea?
Do you trust us to work for you at Honeywell? If not, then what makes you think that any of us employees are trustworthy enough to do our jobs properly from a desk inside the facility any more than we are when working from a desk offsite?
What about single parents who have to drop off and pick up their children at a school an hour+ away? What about people who have sick/injured spouses/relatives/significant others at home needing occasional assistance?? What about parents with special needs kids? What about the people who are critical repositories of knowledge, nearing the age of retirement, who choose to take an extended vacation and work occasionally from their vacation location? What about employees who work offsite because the air inside our office buildings is so dusty and moldy that it is literally toxic to them? There are so many examples of people with a legitimate need to work remotely. Telecommuting is and has been one of the key benefits offered to us as Honeywell employees that has cost the company nearly nothing to give, yet provides SO MUCH OPPORTUNITY for employees to successfully excel at their job while still tending to the needs of their personal life. WORK-LIFE-BALANCE! -and now you state you are taking this incredibly powerful and necessary benefit away!
Dave Cote, you are intelligent enough. You should have no difficulty understanding how much this telecommuting benefit is one of the last remaining things helping to retain high performing employees who otherwise have very little reason left to stick it out working for you. Maybe that's it? Maybe you want to force attrition without the cost of a RIF. If that is the case, you're doing a fine job. -But if you think for one second that we employees actually believe that this wholesale-elimination of our telecommuting benefit is somehow in the spirit of "fostering teamwork and diversity", you must take us all for complete morons. Only the grandest of narcissists would honestly think themselves capable of feeding their employees such BS and think the employees ignorant enough to fall for it.
Good luck retaining talent. I'm officially beginning my search now because without the benefit of telecommuting, the ONLY thing Honeywell has left on the table that goes above what a competitor can offer is literally the 4 weeks of vacation I've earned by working for this place as long as I have.
Honeywell, Dave Cote, Senior leadership, you should reconsider this idiocratic policy change immediately before you find yourselves desperately wishing you had not alienated, demotivated, dehumanized, and abused your employees to the breaking point. You've put gasoline on us with demotions, pay cuts of band 4 employees, RIFs, and furloughs. Now you're breaking out the matches and it seems you wish to watch your employee's world burn. Just remember that when the smoke clears, typically the only remains among the rubble will be the c---roaches you didn't want in the first place.
Very happy about this new policy. No more need to support late night calls with customers in Asia because I will be sleeping so I can get up and go to work the next day.
Honeywell aerospace won't exist in 10 years. It likely won't exist in 5 years.
Starting to think I have just wasted 31 years of my working life. I was hoping to retire from this company but I can't take another 10 years of the idiots running this place. This company is total sh-- and I am embarrassed to say I work there and no. I am not a disgruntled telecommuter.
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Clueless Exec's making uniformed decisions that have huge negative impacts. Been going on for years as we watch the roof leak and the building fall apart around us. If you'd like a tour of the facility Coty, I'd be happy to show you around the 70's architecture that has never been maintained. A$$HAT!
This seems like a very knee-jerk reaction (to the Sarasota incident), and as one poster noted "short-sighted", for a global company to have made. Allowing working from home has allowed us to collaborate better with our counterparts in India, China, etc. This was not thought out well at all. It's embarrassing to be a part of this company when initiatives like this are implemented without first researching the implications. Wow. Just wow.....
Maybe UTX will buy this crap company once all the crap leadership is gone.
It's coming from the future CEO. He doesn't believe in work/life balance. This is company wide.
Another one-size-fits-nobody policy from the geniuses that have strangled a once great business. Shareholders should have Dave and Tims heads on a spike.
Let's flush the toilet at least 5 times each time you go!
This was not well thought out. There are some sites that don't have enough space at all. It is disgusting how Honeywell continues to treat people. We have calls at all times of the day and the fact that this is being required is insane. It makes no sense to me to have this blanket policy. Honeywell takes takes and takes and never gives. They are a very short-sited company. I would think once the Media gets a hold of this, they are going to have a hay day with this one. Furloughs, layoffs, reduction in benefits and now this...time to start bringing this to the Press. Good employees will start looking around. Time to pull out the resume.
Are they going to change the company policy for managers that get to the office around noon? Oh wait, there is no policy for that......
As Dave said in the announcement yesterday...the best is yet to come.
It wasn't Clearwater, it was Sarasota. And he was there at 4:57 pm on a Friday. Trying to justify business reasons for using the corp jet. He was there for personal reasons building his mansion on the beach, but wanted a business justification.