We have been on mandatory 25% overtime since the beginning of the year. We now have to work this coming Saturday, it’s a mandatory day they said since it’s last day of the quarter. We are also exempt from the 2 week furlough. I really do appreciate the fact that we still have jobs and plenty of work but we’re all exhausted. I hope they don’t say “since we’re one of the few sites open that we need to work harder and more hours to help the company through this financial hardship”.
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No argument that Honeywell will continue to do whatever it takes to keep the stock price up. However, I'm hopeful Olathe R&O will have a long tenure.
As much as they'd like to outsource the work somewhere off-shore, I don't think they'd ever be able to (you need to keep some of the capability within the CONUS).
I had to go to Olathe and help train/clear backlog to recieve my severance. Corporate is driving everyone insanely hard since they know this is a sinking ship, and you can see from the HR posts here that they're scrambling to juice just enough out of you before they can RIF you away like they did with the rest of the R&O sites. Sorry to the guys who moved from Renton and Wichita to Olathe, you guys don't deserve this treatment. Honeywell still pretends they're a work-for-life company to drag you around the country when they're turning into the McDonalds of Aerospace.
Someone hopes Olathe will get to a "steady-state"? For at least 12 years, there has been no stability, and layoffs at least once every year. Vacation gets taken away, and as in all of Honeywell, any perk is eventually done away with. They've turned it into a dump with a leaking roof that never gets fixed. There may be a few ebbs, but there will always be flows. Never expect stability there. Even with R&O moved there. All they are doing is staging R&O for the next transition to outsource or offshore.
@yvk, thanks for sharing that eye opening info. Your wife is a real he–ine. Please share our best wishes and gratitude.
God bless you and your family -yvk. We pray for your well being.
OP: You're complaining about 25% overtime?
There's been over 5 million people lose their jobs in the last several weeks in the USA that would love to still have a job.
My wife is an intensive care unit nurse at a hospital. She's been doing 70-80 hour weeks without a day off for the last five weeks. Due to possible exposure to our children and myself she is living in our travel trailer on the side of our house. Quit complaining, it could be a lot worse for you.
Don't worry, HON will deem you essential and exempt you from RIFs and furloughs and add in mandatory OT, working you like a rented mule, then at the first sign they don't need your work you'll be gone with another email containing the words "tough decision". You'll see.
From what I've seen, the mandatory overtime is due to the backlog of R&O units, primarily due to the transitions of work from Renton and Wichita. Not sure of everything that went into the transition planning, but it seems like they missed the mark. Not nearly enough people hired and trained when they should have been, although they seem to be well on their way to digging out of the hole.
FWIW, outside of late R&O orders, I've been impressed with Olathe. I was more familiar with Renton (didn't work with the Wichita folks much), but a the Renton folks who transitioned to Olathe are all good people, and the new hires have been impressive as well.
Looking forward to a time when all of the transition pain is behind us, and Olathe is at steady-state.
Mandatory 25% overtime? Why haven't you found a new job?
They’re canceling new orders. We haven’t seen any R&O cancellations. We recently absorbed the Wichita and Renton R&O sites so our backlog is over 10,000 units right now.
Olathe is in AERO.
Should not be a problem for much longer since your airline customers are cancelling orders. The parts that you are behind in shipping will likely be cancelled orders soon.
what division are you in?