Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

@9biu. How’s Honeywell going to know? I’m not willing to take that chance. Sadly, in my last few years there, I came to trust no one. I would not risk having to pay back a substantial severance package. Sorry.

As far as emails, I only have Honeywell emails to contact most people.

Feeding names to my new employer? Wow, that makes me look really good to them, doesn’t it?! Also, once again, things have a way of surfacing. Not taking that chance either.

Now- IF someone I worked with at Honeywell contacts me, and wants the info, I will gladly point them in this direction. But they have to instigate the inquiry.

My hands are tied otherwise.

Again, I’m sorry. My years at Honeywell taught me to watch out for myself because that’s all everyone else is doing. Watch your back.

Unless you communicate to your former coworker using company email, how is Honeywell even going to know?

You can’t personally contact persons, but your company can. I remember when rayrheon hired a mobile billboard truck to circle our site all day at start/finish times

@2yzc. My new company is begging for people of a certain skill set- I know many at a Honeywell that would be great candidates. But I am barred from letting anyone know the name of the company by HONEYWELL- for 2 years, they can come back and take your severance back if you violate any terms if your separation. One of those terms is you are not allowed to contact any active Honeywell employee about another opportunity.

Believe me, my new company would love it if I could contact some people—

Standard language in separation agreements, and also in so-called non-disclosure agreement that many of us were forced to sign, includes non-solicitation of Honeywell employees to your new company.

Wow how strange. A company that is hiring but yet it bars employees from letting anyone know??? Why? Many pay a bonus to employees that refer successful applicants. Almost sounds like a back assward policy that HON would adopt.

In S AZ there are lots of engineering jobs at many companies. Folks are hopping from one company to another. The ones that land at Honeywell leave quickly. It just keeps getting dumber. Good luck out there.

Good for you, the entire infrastructure is a house of cards...

Getting laid off at close to retirement age really s---s. I got fired at the age of 60 from a job that I thought would led into my retirement. They even made me sign an agreement that I would not sue them for age discrimination and would pay me an extra $4K if I signed it. I needed the money so I signed it.

3 months later I got my current job and it pays $15K a year more than my old job. No pressure at the new job and they have been sending me to classes to learn more software programs (company specific programs). The old job gave me a head set and told me to watch YouTube videos if I needed to solve a software problem and I was expected to then train my boss on how to troubleshoot the program. They were too cheap to pay for software support for the company wide programs they purchased. This was mainly their manufacturing scheduling software like SAP but they too cheap to buy SAP even though they could well afford it.