Not my post, but it deserves a solo thread (it's from a thread below): Honeywell forces managers to rank people by arbitrary rules like “amount of overtime worked”. Often this requires putting good, or in the case of the manager referenced, who was well liked across all of aerospace— industry level great— people on a track to be fired. Simply telling a brilliant employee that they are in the outer L is enough to set this in action. The employee is angry at the obvious lie and the manager has no choice but to seek justification for an immoral act. dissonance.
I have seen it dozens of times over the last 30 years. I don’t think managers fire people out of spite.. I think they create those negative emotions because they have to fire someone.
This is cultural in Honeywell and it cannot be fixed unless the company begins to experience real growth again. Without new products to drive that growth the company workforce must shrink to meet revenue goals.
So.. look around and ask if there are new products likely to drive growth. If you don’t see real potential from new products... make a decision: either be content with diminishing rewards and increasing work or find somewhere that is growing.
I made that decision recently and joined a company that is growing. I get paid for my all of my work. I can see the progress. No more BS. I am INFINITELY happier.
Now I’m on a mission to make this site the number one result in any google search about a honeywell job. Why..? Because those immoral acts left me angry and spiteful. Now I get to direct that toward the source instead of my employees. I expect it will last a while.