I might be out of line for this way of thinking but allow me to retort.
I, as I'm sure most of you reading this post, worked my butt off last year to accomplish seemingly impossible revenue and margin goals. It required weekends, long hours away from my family and elevated stress levels which I rationalized were ok for the better good. That better good of course being a nice raise at the end of the year and God willing, a nice bump in 401k value as a shareholder. Imagine my shock and surprise when after being told 2019 was a record year for us that my raise was a whopping 2% even after a very high block rating. Later, in a twist of irony and hilarity, Honeywell yanked that raise back because surely they couldn't possibly squander that amount of money whilst only having $10B in cash reserves, but I digress.
We all saw what COVID is doing to our industry and there is no doubt companies have had to tighten their belts but this feels like it goes even deeper than that. Over my years at Honeywell I have seen ups and downs I'm the ebb and flow of the normal course of business. Upturns and downturns. But under the surface, it felt like something was still off. Over time I've endured the 401k match being reduced, and then lied to my face that the match would return to it's normal %. I saw the elimination of earned vacation for the sole purpose of sticking it to people being laid off in the form of the company not having to pay them for time they rightfully earned. CEO and AERO president salaries soared as TM posted happy pictures of him and his family taking expense paid vacations on the company aircraft paid for by, you guessed it, you and I. Mad Dog buys himself a new $120k sports car while laying off 40% of the division he's ruining and constantly reminds us of the necessary sacrifices we all need to make.
With the latest round of Furloughs, we are asked to do even more with less despite our sacrifices over the last decade as employees. Half my team was let go and that workload fell right on my desk while I'm being told that not only did my raise get yanked from last year, but I won't be getting raise in 2020 and if I'm even still here after this. We can all be sure that there won't be a 401k match in January, either. Now, the company has been furloughing the workforce while simultaneously expecting the same workload output from the employees. My dear co-workers, enough is enough. The cuts made to satiate the insatiable monster called wall street were too deep; we can no longer function effectively and yet, mad dog continues to send his clown emails pretending everything fine. Well, everything is not fine. You get to enjoy an immense income while the rest of us toil away in COVID ridden plants. The weekly emails from the site leader indicating more exposures each week is a nice touch and a good reminder of how much Honeywell cares about it's employee's well being.
It's this point where I quote a great movie: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!!" I'm tired of being taken advantage of and treated like Honeywell's emergency piggy bank. I have made a conscious decision to slow down. I feel it's only fair. The more workload which is demanded of me, the slower I get it all done because 8 hours only gets you so far. I guess if they don't like it they can fire me too, but then who is going to do it then?