Town hall with new CEO tomorrow. Maybe we will find out where the HQ will be and if Melville is being shut down. All aboard, the SS Titanic is leaving the dock!
This is a disaster across the board. From products no one is buying, a marketing group that cant market, to an over bloated IT org to an"engineering" group that's incompetent from the top (CTO) down to the lowest "engineer" in a sh--hole country.
Its been very quiet....anyone have any news or rumors about this disaster?
All the rest of Homes employees in Brno CZ are now on RIF, six months paid in advance.
Well, the "rest" are the "non-useable" people, who could not lay any decent job, so they have stayed until the bitter end, or scattered to aero (lol what a wreck) or sps. Hehe, guess for how long - I give it until EOY 2018 and the company is gone (from CZ, AFAIK).
Some of the corporate warriors are there for up to 15yrs, what a shock it will be for them to see the professional life outside the cowshed.
All the smart guys, who engineered the cool things (alto voice, cvpro, duo, manhattan, jasper), have left already - brain drain since Q4/16. Althought actively driven by the mgmt. as it was found out, but meh.
In fact it started to go downhill since india/china pushed themselves more and more in; the laughable thieves from sentience, also did they part (haha renaming a cloud instance won't make you to magically understand it). Even more in fact it all started with the US-based attempt to build the dratted honeybadger - the 'round one' lol; and we all know it failed big times, what a mess it made - that very thing killed Homes, yes.
It is hard to point fingers, as most of the people who caused it, are gone; and the damage is irreversible. But we all know the names.
There were a few truly great guys in US (MPLS), but only a few; too bad I can't name those here.
The rest, ...censured...
Never mind, this thing is over, what a ride it was.
And - whoever stays in Hon, deserves it.
Is HOMES what this company's core products used to be before being purchased/assimilated?
The emperor has no clothes. But don’t dare say that if you still work there.
Dear Aero employee,
I hear you...take a few deep breaths. Like you said, you only have 15 months to go. If you take it so personally (and I don't blame you) you're going to cause yourself health problems. I feel the stress in your post. Only look out for yourself and your health, collect your paycheck and go home.
My health forced me into retirement a few years ago, but I still hear about the failures in my old department and feel disheartened that all the work I put in is now being undone by incompetent engineers. Obviously I still can't let it go completely because I'm monitoring this site. It does make me feel great that I left HW before things went really wrong. My identity is not focused around being an engineer anymore even though I've taken on some very challenging projects since my departure. Life is so good in early retirement!
Best Regards,
Ex HW Band 4 Aero Engineer
News Flash...... The CEO doesn't care. He'll be wealthy either way as he's guaranteed his money.
Similar concerns in aero The biggest problem is they laid off competent US people, then outsourced to incompetentss, It takes three times as many to get a task done in months or years instead of days. Training and standard work (MOT) are non existent. Everyone is running around like a chicken with their heads cut off.
They shove finance classes down engineers throats, so they “understand” that it’s a great idea to cut the legs out from under suppliers until the only ones who will do business with us are those that shaft us at every turn.
Dear CEO - since when is it a good idea to have a supply base of one? Whose brilliant idea was it to sell our drawings out so that only one supplier would have the right to make them? (Finance people) - we saved a penny today to report to our stock holders but we are going to lose millions tomorrow. Who cares?
Dear CEO - have you actually looked at the eAuction results??? The very undernourished supply base you have created is gouging you at every turn. The eAuction process is costing you a fortune!
Bid#1-$1000, bid#2-$600, so the job goes to #2. A year later that price is $1200 (and will continue at that rate for many years to come) due to “increased material costs” and supplier#1 has sought out other companies that have a win/win mentality to do business with. We also see supplier #2”s that can’t make the parts to begin with. So you’ve screwed yourself out of being able to get the material at all unless you pay 3 times the real value of it-over and over again. Doesn’t help that you don’t pay suppliers for 6 months and insist on better terms from your customers. Very, very short sighted bean counters that have obviously never taken an economics class.
The only cost savings he CEO can think of is cutting the employees who knew what the @$&@“ they were doing and giving their jobs to idiots in India that spend the majority of their time chasing their tails and claiming they understand what they’re supposed to be doing when they don’t. Didn’t learn from outsourcing to Puerto Rico either did you? I watched 8.5 million get flushed down the toilet last year because of that on a single project. The employee turn over there was so bad there was zero training and the entire project -swoosh...down it goes with all the chunkies.
Marketing? Nonexistent. This is a company with ZERO long term goals and is sinking fast. They’ve taken on an awful lot of water. Titanic- is a good name for it and we hear it used frequently.
It’s pretty bad when the second sttock is passed out to employees, they swap it out for something else. Oh...whoops...This year you won’t pass stock out again until AFTER the round of layoffs that you gift to your employees every Christmas Eve. I’ve got a year and three months to go until I can escape-just hoping to float until then.