Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

So the North American company then had the bright idea that if it could license it's "good" name out to other companies to put on their merchandise, they could artificially profit from the exploitation of good times long behind them. Over time, that didn't pan out because the tired old corpse was no longer functioning, and the ex-employees spread like banshees over the industries and made sure the name was not "good". Nobody wanted to have that company's name on their stuff, nor did they want to buy any canoes from that company. Even Jim Cramer couldn't stir up any sales. The stock started it's final decline.

So with nobody buying their software nor hardware canoes, and with the name racket stillborn, it was then decided the least bad option left, was to de-flesh the remaining bones and sell off the flesh, and the bones separately. Unfortunately it was found (to their surprise) that the flesh was old and tired out like old exploited boxed-in breeding stock and no new flesh had been added for so long, scar tissue was marbled-in everywhere. No stock traders would buy their old flesh, even to grind into McRibs.

The last effort for the North American company was to finally sell off the bones. There were a few good bones, despite years of calcium deficiency, but those good bones went quickly so all that was left, was the osteoporosis-laden bones. Nobody wanted those bones, and some of them even had toxic waste destruction. Those bones still lay there today, as a monument to what could have been but wasn't.

So in the end, the executives still made out with bloated pay & bonuses, and out there in the world are products still used from this North American company no longer being supported. Some of them are flying in the sky every day.

Well done, well said!

Outstanding!!!

So...

The American company declared that they no longer will build hardware canoes but ones constructed out of software. This follows other American companies such as IBM, Dell and HP, who used to build hardware but now are "IT/software" companies. Those companies claimed to be able to build "software rivers" of which other companies could then build things to float on it. But those companies off-shored all the work and in the end, couldn't deliver a software river that consistently flowed.

So that other late-to-the-party-me-too American company also off-shored the development for the software canoe, and in the end it was also leaky, and couldn't float on the software river which didn't flow. Potential customers found it odd that a company with a history of building hardware canoes that used to work many years ago, had lost its way and even with all the corporate process procedures in the world, could not deliver that software canoe on time, just like it started doing with the hardware ones.

So those canoes languished and didn't sell. Also something about having to buy them through a mobster in New Jersey didn't stomach well.

But in the end, all those executives still got paid huge salaries & bonuses and those two American employees who bailed out the first hardware canoe project? They got blamed, elbowed, PIPed & RIFed. Both now work at competitive companies who build better canoes and would do anything to take business away from their old company.

Ain't that the truth!

Let me add that once the team was outsourced to Bangalore they only had 9 rowers and one poor Honeywell manager in the U.S. at 2 AM guiding them by Lync. The communication was always choppy. No matter how hard the Indians rowed they never reached the finish line and the canoe started leaking. The canoe was brought back to the U.S., repaired by the only American left that ever worked on it, then it was put into a storage area that used to be populated cubicles, and there it still sits years later. Rumor is they have been trying to sell it but nobody wanted a canoe made by a company with the reputation of Honeywell.

Love it!!!