I don’t know about you but I smell another furlough in the air. I hope I’m wrong but I’m getting the same vibes from management as before our last “cost action”.
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@bkux. Honeywell changed when Allied bought us, and Dave brought his GE ideas with him. It has been ONLY abought profit since then. I rued the day it happened, because we already heard about Bossidys reputation
Looks like the Aero HR are having an intense conference meeting and no prizes for guessing whats it about. Headcounts are the top of the agenda with reductions being the end result. MM and his merry men haven’t finished sharpening their knives from the last round.
When did Honeywell change so dramatically that livelihoods mean nothing to them and yet professes about employees first.
That's not a furlough you smell. 😳
Commercial work is drying up. What really needs to happen is to remove many layers of Sr mgmt and PMs since there is nothing to manage. It's like they're trying to keep it all on life support to keep their jobs. Can't blame them, I suppose. They couldn't find high paying jobs anywhere else.
I hope mad dog Mike makes this another very, merry RIFmas! That's the only he can show to DA that AERO makes money. He crippled ISC before the downtown and now he is selling off the business piece by piece combined with reductions and furloughs to "close the gap" he created and then COVID widened. There is no end to the sell off- AERO will be sold off on brick at a time and this is why they are separating D&S from the rest of the dead weight. Commercial aviation for Honeywell is dead and gone. Old tech, shoddy quality and poor customer support won't last in these times and it was only a matter of time anyway since Boeing has us on the no bid list and they're actively working to develop their own avionics and APUs.
Once all the product lines, pens, desks, cube walls and old chairs are sold, AERO will transform into the software industrial failure it's destined to become.
No worries.
FYI... Directors are sc-apping around to get the fill rates above 1FTE for each direct charging employee. Only means one thing. They are battling to show that there is more work than their department can handle. Also, weekly hourly metric (DDLP or whatever its called) is being reviewed vigorously, push to go all charge towards customer. Playing the game. So... that means VPs are looking to trim. So... Furloughs and possible minor trim in force here or there.
Q4 furlough is in the cards......
Thank you sir. May I have another?
I asked my director level boss if I could have 1 week off per month without pay from now on.
Regretfully he said "there's no f'ing way".
Maybe that will get me riffed. I'll hold out for the 26 weeks severance.
1) Defense+Space makes money while rest of Aerospace hurting with long recovery time.
2) Split Defense+Space into a separate SBU, isolating the profitable part from the hurting part.
3) ?
4) Profit!
Anyone want to guess Step 3?
2OVF - I don't understand. What do you mean tapped out? Put your big boy pants on and sell one of your beach houses or fire the house keeping staff. Maybe sell the Porsche. We all need to make sacrifices here...
- MM
I for one do NOT wish for anymore furloughs. It’s too huge of a financial burden for my family since it is nearly impossible to get unemployment in my state (pitifully small at that). I blew through all my savings to recover from the last three. All tapped out...
$540 to do nothing. Furlough yes.
Sept is a traditional RIF month. Get your family medical leave requests in now.
Perfect time to rif, we are missing development milestones everywhere and need excuses.
Reorg announced for defense so mad mike is already openning envelope 2.
It will be furloughs planned for the next quarter with a tinge of RIF. How's the weather looking like?
This is the best news I've heard this week. Another furlough week? Yes please!! I'd prefer it closer to Christmas so I can enjoy some nice weather here in Phoenix. A nice week off to relax, recharge, then come back to work and go even slower every day, purposely dragging everything out. I'm trying to work half days; spend 4 hours working then spend 4 hours job hunting. Fair is fair.
Email chain I got seems to indicate potential for another round of furlough and RIFs. ES engr mgmt is looking to reduce more US based charging (but not touching our sacred cow, India)
Got a furlough “out of office” email from APAC person. On going “rotating” furlough method. Lucky still have a job though
I don't really think they're a troll. They're just starting the conversation.
That's great news! Maybe they will grant more VRIF paroles.....
I hope so, the only vacation you really get from the 3rd Reich
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