Mid life i learned about the 4 noble truths. I now realize that most of the unhappiness at honeywell can be solved with this simple way of thinking. Perhaps that is why HTS thrives. Once i accepted that honeywell has no individual identity and will always be an ephemeral and changing thing i stopped mourning for the past. This was so helpful for me.
Perhaps you might consider letting the constant change flow over you.
Then decide to accept your own change and move on to someplace less toxic.
Corny I know.. but honest and related with respect.
For me it was a job with my hands in north carolina. I make half as much and i am five times happier. Retirement isnt something i worry about. Every day is new.
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OP, I think that's excellent advice for learning to live a life of serenity as the storm rages around us. It may be a key to emotional survival in the post-COVID, post-truth, post-privacy, post-incentive world we are rapidly approaching.
In the meantime, HON employees are right to be outraged at the harsh treatment, exploitation at the expense of work-life balance, elimination of standard employee benefits and preparation for advancement opportunites, etc. None of us (in the US, anyway) signed on with this company that claims to offer soaring opportunities, to find ourselves in a state of battered submission.
The Europeans have passed legislation to spare workers much of the tone-deaf treatment that Americans just roll over and accept...primarily out of stunned disbelief that a company would to that to their loyal workers. Wall Street, which is the only higher authority HON leadership recognizes, rewards the top tier for such behavior in the absence of laws against it.
Therefore, in the short term (until we are fully living Orwell's world of 1984), if we want to have a rewarding career, the best bet is to join or create a mission-driven company as opposed to a Wall Street-driven company.
The Buddism concepts are, honestly, good to review and contemplate,
out of respect for other religions, regardless of one's own particular religious affiliation.
Inspired by HI's acronym VPD
(Velocity Product Development)
- k.a
VPD-FPF-MRI acronym,
(Velocity Product Development - First Pass Fails - Many Regrettable Iterations)
how about :
VPH:
Velocity
Path
(to)
Happiness:
Do consider Buddhism,
contemplate the ideas there,
AND
seek a decent employment.
(I respect, and am Not mocking, Buddhism.)
https://www.pbs.org/edens/thailand/buddhism.htm#:~:text=The%20Fourth%20Noble%20truth%20charts,Right%20Mindfulness%20and%20Right%20Concentration.
"The Four Noble Truths are a contingency plan for dealing with the suffering humanity faces – suffering of a physical kind, or of a mental nature. The First Truth identifies the presence of suffering. The Second Truth, on the other hand, seeks to determine the cause of suffering. In Buddhism, desire and ignorance lie at the root of suffering. By desire, Buddhists refer to craving pleasure, material goods, and immortality, all of which are wants that can never be satisfied. As a result, desiring them can only bring suffering. Ignorance, in comparison, relates to not seeing the world as it actually is. Without the capacity for mental concentration and insight, Buddhism explains, one's mind is left undeveloped, unable to grasp the true nature of things. Vices, such as greed, envy, hatred and anger, derive from this ignorance.
The Third Noble Truth, the truth of the end of suffering, has dual meaning, suggesting either the end of suffering in this life, on earth, or in the spiritual life, through achieving Nirvana. When one has achieved Nirvana, which is a transcendent state free from suffering and our worldly cycle of birth and rebirth, spiritual enlightenment has been reached. The Fourth Noble truth charts the method for attaining the end of suffering, known to Buddhists as the Noble Eightfold Path. The steps of the Noble Eightfold Path are Right Understanding, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration. Moreover, there are three themes into which the Path is divided: good moral conduct (Understanding, Thought, Speech); meditation and mental development (Action, Livelihood, Effort), and wisdom or insight (Mindfulness and Concentration)."
Way simpler and more effective than the Honeywell 9 (vague) behaviors . . .
https://www.google.com/search?q=buddism+%224+noble+truths%22&rlz=1C1ONGR_enUS927US928&oq=buddism+%224+noble+truths%22&aqs=chrome..69i57.8073j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
"The Fourth Noble truth charts the method for attaining the end of suffering, known to Buddhists as the Noble Eightfold Path. The steps of the Noble Eightfold Path are Right Understanding, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration."
Or,
One NOBLE TRUTH:
Go get a better job,
instant happiness.