Seriously- they’re not even doing what they’re put there to do- protect Honeywell from lawsuits. From my observation, it’s staffed 100% with fresh out of college graduates whom have zero real life work experience other than less than 2 years at Honeywell. Not only that- they all have the word “senior” in their title. The lack of experience really shows, on every level. My God.
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In reference to the tax anomalies threads, in my experience this happens because payroll is part of Honeywell HR, which is headquartered out of Mexico, so the local HR rep just passes it along to the team in Mexico. And, nothing personal, but the issues I saw happened mainly due to workers in a foreign country attempting to translate and implement US Fed & State tax laws (and/or other countries’ laws, depending on where the employee is based). I did not work in HR, but close to it, and I can think of numerous times I reported incorrect taxing of US workers’ pay and it never got corrected simply because the hr employees in Mexico either couldn’t figure out what they were doing wrong, misinterpreted the information they had, or stubbornly thought they were in the right already. And when they couldn’t find a way to make sense of it and fix it, they would just put it on the back burner and ignore communications. The language barrier always seemed to play a huge part in all of it (why it was wrong, communicating issues, trying to fix it, etc.). Never saw those types of issues consistently go unaddressed until it was all outsourced to Mexico. Considering people work for a paycheck typically, when your pay is wrong, it is absolutely ridiculous that there is not a local team of any sort that can fix the problem immediately.
And yea, the ‘anonymous HR direct email’ that you’re given upon RIF for communicating is insulting. Funny how the HR rep in the rif notification meeting is all smiles and ‘let me know if you have any questions at all’ but then goes fully MIA when you do reach out upon/after your rif. Insane the things this company chooses to continue to do, and the bs they get away with. If you’re still there, seriously take the bad you hear as cautionary warnings, and not just stupid rumors.
There are dozens of open federal lawsuits. HR is a big fat fail.
Have since left Honeywell, but last year I was harassed so badly in a meeting by someone in upper management. I got a message from a director of HR (who was also in this meeting) after telling me I “handled myself well” and that this person is “like that with everyone”. The fact that this person seemingly acknowledged the toxicity as well as normalized it, is all you need to know about Honeywell HR.
Ferreting out dissenters and propping up incompetent management is the primary HR role.
That department needs to be renamed, because the acronym doesn't fit. The H used to stand for "human," and at one time there were actually humans with souls and consciences there. AND they were resources for help, too. That's all gone!
HR is just as disorganized as the rest of the corporation, if not more so. I would not count on them to do anything intelligently, or even consistently
They are too busy trying to find executive talent. Posting this link all over LinkedIn careers.honeywell
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Never bother to learn hr people's names. They dont stay long enough to bother.
Same same here…wonder how many of us there are out there?!…
I am hoping to have a RIF soon. I am also related to a very competent labor lawyer who I have been supplying cigars and whisk-y to for years. I think I am set. :)
@hza+1pC0ygYl I had a very similar story, nasty pieces of work.
What HR put me through last year was beyond disgusting, I doubt any other global corporation could have been so unprofessional, incompetent and malicious.
My warning to all is thoroughly inspect every single pay check and thoroughly check your W2 for tax anomalies.
DO NOT ASSUME they are doing their job, they lie, they cheat and in my experience may not even follow the law.
If you think HR are bad whilst you work for them wait until they RIF you and all you have is an anonymous HR direct email that seems to disappear into the ether!
I only got resolution to very serious non compliance to legal requirement by threatening legal action, funny how all of a sudden that email managed to get through.
Absolute POS.