Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

In 100% sure what the UTC heads said was true. The differences between Honeywell's engines/APU assembly shop and a
Pratt's shop are stunning.

Sounds like you switched rooms on the Titanic.

A lot of colleagues have taken their chances elsewhere and are happier, others are leaving soon, they don’t care anymore....

I believe the merger with UTX will mean the old Raytheon is gone. Any merger like this is for cost cutting purposes. The finance guys slowly start to take over and call the shots. I worked at Raytheon for a while 2015-2018, pre merger. Typical government work, lots of folks working on gov contracts / complliance, slow motion, and a lot of really smart engineers doing incredible stuff. Production schedule came in 3rd behind these 2. Never felt any pressure on meeting a schedule, emphasis was on getting it right. Very much like Engineering project work or development work. And Ray was very family friendly and actually did value employees time off. I enjoyed my time there and met a lot of friendly people. I think those days are going by the wayside

50 years ago when I was a young whipper snapper working at GE on Nuclear Power Control Systems, I was told by a senior employee, look around see all these guys and girls in suits and with their heads down elbows out, and few other choice words... They are all salary id–ts. I continued to listen, he said don't fall into the trap, be a contractor, set your price and don't worry about being loyal, worry about getting paid. And he was right. I have worked for startups, huge corporations, some for long periods of time +10 years others for a year, some for a few months. There is always another position somewhere else, when I was young I jumped time and again +20% increase in salary every time. Then once I had reached a plateau, I started jumping when I finished a project to move on to something new and exciting somewhere else, because the same old same old was boring. But several times I had set backs, guess what, I went back to the previous company, time and again. Why, number one rule, do not burn bridges, bite your tongue on the way out the door. I played the "let's tell them everything that is wrong, to fix things" once when HR asked for an exit interview, because they were dumb founded that I quit a week after a 20% salary increase internally. I politely declined. If your not having fun, JUMP. If your not making enough money, JUMP. You need to polish your resume, if you don't know how to find a job, use a head hunter, if you make more than 100k/yr try ladders.com, if you make less, search Glassdoor and LinkedIn. Hell do that anyway. Grow your network on LinkedIn. I have had more people reach out to me for new positions on LinkedIn than anywhere else.