Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

Please!! Honeywell is a job. They pay you for your behavior and that is it. Careers are just a bunch of jobs..... You are your own company you should try to get the most possible for the least amount of work....Just like our POTUS has done in his realestate business. We owe Honeywell nothing...they use us and we should use them ...period!!!

I like to see good little Nazi's fall in line. The company loves you too!

9jro - you seem to have a very typical career at Hon that many others have too, and many who were let go had. Best of luck trying to maintain it. In the end you work for money and its about your nest egg when you retire. Hopefully your bliss at Hon wont keep you all in the stock when inevitable correction hits.

It is all good until one day out of nowhere your number comes up. I know plenty of people who thought just like you did before layoff. There is no way to garuntee your continued employment. If you are not picked then you can think it is because you were doing the right things. These are short term financial decisions. You maybe thinking differently if you were over 50.

Got hired after many (6) years applying. Hustled to catch up and network. Worked late and weekend shifts to cover tasks outside my "pay-grade". Knew and worked with some of the best people. Completed tasks on time if not early in every case. Was told I was doing wonderful in my 6 month review and to keep on hustlin. Just shy of a year I was honorary recipient of a layoff. Don't pretend you are immune there at Honeywell. Despite your best efforts, network and results Honeywell owes and remembers nothing. On parting my manager stated "Im as shocked as you are, but this is the way things are around here. I'm sure you'll land safely somewhere." I did, but not without a few months of unemployed reflection of how and where I apply my best efforts. Luckily I've landed somewhere I believe will not lull me to the slaughter with bull crap messages like "look at me! I was on the floor and worked my way up to supervisor. This could be you with a little hard work and dedi....nevermind here's 2 months of severance s---s to be you."

I personally believe that Honeywell is a great place to work and learn skills that will ultimately make you better and more valuable. To me one of the most appealing aspects of Honeywell is that you can accelerate at any pace you want, it truly is up to you, and you can move around from function, SBU or even SBG gaining a breadth of experience along the way. I have been at Honeywell 20 years am over 40, started on the shop floor, worked my way up through almost every function, went to school at night. The key to success in my opinion is, 1) Get results, understand your managers expectations and strategically align yourself with the initiatives of the corporation. Remember we serve at the pleasure of the share holders... 2) Develop your network and understand you have to sell yourself. Too many people build a network only at their site or function or even SBG, a broad network will get you more visibility. 3) Volunteer for special projects or assignments, even if it means extra or off hour work... When I was a machinist I became a shop floor safety rep for my cell, this gave me exposure to leadership and allowed me to present material especially during OSHA VPP activity. Also, if you are a band 2 employee volunteer to be an SAP power user - this will give you exposure to SAP teams, FPAs and other off site teams (build that network).... 3) Better yourself continually, education, training, etc... And guess what, the company doesn't always have to pay for it, it's your future take charge, don't be a victim... I paid for my own degree while working full time, had to take school loans, had to miss a lot of my family time and children's activities, but it has paid for it self multiple times over... 4) Understand that you own your career and happiness no one else does. You may have to move from one site to another to get the job you want or even take a series of jobs to Get the righ skills. There is a lot more I could say, and there will be haters out there, but it's up to you, if you don't like your circumstances then change them, but don't blame it on Honeywell, this company is giving you all of the opportunities you need to be successful. The question is, are you doing anything with it. And yes, I have had bad managers too, I have a secret they usually dont last that long and you will be fine if you are a hustler.

9ebo Then why don't youquit? If u don't like it here.

If not then you are a looser

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!! Somebody please stop this fool before they make me pee!! The people I work with at Honeywell are awesome. The upper level management, not so much. I've never been entitled, I just want to be treated like something other than a disposable commodity. As for the moron who posted "If the typical poster here shifted focus from complaining and stirring up trouble to a focus on doing their job they'd be a lot happier", I would love to be able to focus on my job, but I'm in too many unnecessary meetings. I have too many people pinging me on IM every hour asking for status to focus on what I'm doing. For every real worker like me, there are seven people trying to direct my work. Until the inverted triangle that is Honeywell tips over on its side where it should be, none of this will change.

The people who decide if Honeywell needs a furlough or layoff don't know you or care what you do. They are financial "wizards" looking at giant excel spreadsheets in a land far away. Your boss doesn't have much say except to execute an order flowed to him. He gets a number and has to let that many go. I have also seen entire groups get the axe at one time. So hopefully you are in the right group or your number doesn't come up, assuming you want to stay. All the people I worked with were also great people and very nice, but no affect on whether you stay or go.

Hey OP, let me take a wild guess that you are under 40. The game changes when your hair starts to turn grey. If you haven't figured out the age discrimination at work at HON then you are truly clueless. Maybe it is the same at too many places. That doesn't excuse the rotten practices at HON.

OP- I agree 100%. If the typical poster here shifted focus from complaining and stirring up trouble to a focus on doing their job they'd be a lot happier.

Are you baiting me?

Awesome summary of your career Dave...

Whether you are treated well or not is nothing but luck. There are many people who worked very hard, gave free over time, completed big cost saving projects and one day were told you are not worth anything to the company and are gone. Or you are not a 1-2 blocker, now you are a 6-7. That could be a 20 year person or a 2 year person. Just luck. You seem to be one of the lucky ones. 20 years ago I got a lot of training by Honeywell, not sure who gets any training anymore. But you are right in that other companies are similar, the environment we are in now.

This is reality, an unfortunate turn of events that is part of the process of change.

The question is what each of you do understanding this current scenario:

1) Apply and find another job

2) Stick it out to watch the disaster unfold then apply somewhere else

3) Go down with the ship to the very end hoping nothing further will happen like company is sold off followed by one final mother of all layoffs

4) Stick it out and a Boeing, Rolls Royce or some other company that doesn't have a strong market in the same as the company

Congratulations on your state of eternal bliss, millennial snowflake.

HON prides itself on promoting incompetence and then mismanaging the company till it goes bankrupt. That's the only thing these morons can do.

All big corporations are like honeywell.

There are lots of other problems with small and private corporations also.

It is good only for certain people

Overall life has been always hard

I worked for a Canadian company who unfortunately went public. It was a very good company to work for. A year and half ago Honeywell bought the company and things have gone downhill ever since. The benefits were cut and most of the employees were demoted. Prior to the Honeywell purchase Boeing and Airbus were our 2 main customers. Both Boeing and Airbus have issues with Honeywell management and are reluctant to give us contracts. This has resulted in layoffs and rumors of more layoffs to come. I don't think someone who expected to stay with a company until retirement is spoiled when they complain that about being laid off because of being mismanaged.

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