Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

Agile as a motivation might make some sense, but not for a blanket mandate. There are plenty of WFH people who do not develop software, or are not co-located with their teams, even if they drive in to their designated plant. Typical teams are located at multiple sites since the execs forced globalization and knocked down the site-based culture.

But... we'll see. Maybe they'll go Back to the Future and restructure all teams to be co-located, without sub-teams at other sites. Everyone get into the time machine! Back to the '60's!

Take the video of Dave smashing the woman who asked at the town hall and send it on a jump drive to the Star Tribune, AZCentral, and any unions fighting Dave.

That might generate some real heat.

The customers are already are letting DC know how they feel. They're not calling. They're calling Garmin, Collins, etc. Dave must be still seeing smiling monkeys in the tree below him. Although less monkeys in the tree all the time.

Don't waste your time. The customer base already knows. Dave knows he knows what he's doing. He's running the company into the ground while he stuffs his pockets. That's what people who don't know how to produce a product act. They don't even pretend to after awhile. The only thing that can hurt him is to fly on an aircraft which has a Honeywell box fail & crash the plane because he forced them to ship before the product was ready or tested. Or it had inferior components that had to be used because of his idea/practice of inventory to manufacture.

Talked to some old friends Lockheed Martin.... They are aware of what's going on here. Make sure you blog on our customers board. Maybe our customers can put some pressure on D.C.

Hmmmmm ..... Maybe that is the real reason for the Open House here in Phoenix. They just sent out the e-mail to make sure everyone cleans up their work area. Could the real motive be to make the place look better for prospective buyers?

Agile is an excuse to not write anything down. Also it creates buggy crap that never gets the bugs fixed. It is the "new shiny thing" in IT and is going viral at all development organizations. I think it will be a disaster for many organizations by the time they figure out it doesn't really work well, like the 9-block.

More likely is that this is Cote's strategy for implementing "Agile" for product and software development. Distributed development teams and virtual organizations have proven miserably slow, without benefits of lower cost or better quality. Demanding CMM Level 5 was a colossal and unnecessary waste. But to make Agile work, you need to collocate the "wall-to-wall" business functions. Stick them all in the shiny new technology center in Atlanta. I think that is where this is all going.

We need to find, verify, and broadcast Dave's true motivation for some of the recent actions against employees.

Example: Why would Dave mandate No More Working from Home? Dave is a smart guy. He knows this backfired at other large companies like Yahoo, and it makes no sense for a global company. We're not supposed to be site based anymore, right? So why would Dave possibly do this?

Well, if you're trying to temporarily inflate the stock price and sell off the company, it's a perfect move.

1. It irritates some employees enough that they leave. No need to pay them any severance. Score!

2. When you sell a house, you get higher offers more quickly if the house is staged with the right furniture. We are the furniture. Dave doesn't want a prospective buyer to walk into a Honeywell building and find it half empty. That looks bad and inefficient. Of course, Dave would not want the buyers talking to any of the "furniture" either. That would backfire.

It's just my theory, but it makes much more sense than the BS Dave and his cronies are shoveling about "better collaboration, blah, blah, blah" after they dismantled our site-based culture years ago. Can't have it both ways, so their story is really weak, and meant to cover up their true intentions.

Let us know if you have a better theory, or some evidence, even if it's circumstantial. Won't find a smoking gun -- Dave is too crafty to put this kind of info in an e-mail.

He will change his actions if he take a big enough personal credibility and dollar hit. Remember, he is an egomaniac. Also a complete narcissist.

Idea is not to hasten the crumbling of Honeywell. The idea is to treat the cancer before it's too late. As with cancer, the treatment may temporarily weaken us, but it's better than sitting back idly and watching Dave gut the company to line his own pockets.

Get a union rep in here. That will quickly get their attention. I've already been advised that as a leader, I have to take an LMS course pertaining to union mitigation.

True, but feelings are so raw I can't blame anyone as long as it's legal and doesn't physically hurt anyone. Dave will be fine as he's sold over a million shares last month he could care less .

ALY could be more forthcoming with info, not. All another RIF within a month of the last one while blaming it on gained efficiencies, really? Guess you didn't calculate the efficiencies correctly the first time or we gained a heck of a lot of efficiencies in that month following the RIF

What will this achieve?... He won't change his actions. It sounds like your solution is to expedite the crumbling of Honeywell so it is on his watch opposed to the Patsy a couple months from now... sounds counterproductive to me.

Good ideas about spreading this web site address.

Dave has forgotten a very important customer base -- his employees. He likes to stifle feedback from this customer base through fear and intimidation, but there are other channels to give him feedback with little fear of reprisal. Time to shine a very bright spotlight on the Real Dave.

Leaving the web site address in every rest rm.

Set them around the cubes when you come in early or stay late

Get in contact with a union