I was on vacay with the fam and looked up the Clearwater site as I hear so much about it. What has happened to our sites? This one has knee high weeds all around, cracked parking lot, over grown bushes, etc.. There is a little drainage ditch covered in cigarette butts and trash. It was actually embarrassing. Didn’t someone say a manager drive into a sink ho-e in a Honeywell parking lot at Sky Harbor? Jesus. Judge a damn book by it’s cover.
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I know it won't make anyone here feel better, but I was looking at the layoff site from an enormous global company where I started work fresh out of college. The people were lamenting that they no longer have trash cans at their desks. I can sort of understand if a company is really hard up and decides to make people empty their own trash into a central dumpster. But to remove the trash cans entirely? What this also says is that the engineers are in the office. What a world!
Poor management at the upper levels. Someone said the workers are heroes. Well, last year they did all the paperwork for a raise and then took.it away. Some of us still did an outstanding job and got awarded with a coin that wouldnt even buy a donut at the end of the street! Wouldnt buy anything actually. Its worthless. Then some in our isc production got some.money as thanks at the end of the year for working thru the pandemic, but others in our same production group got nothing. People that support that group got nothing. People that support both groups got nothing. What the...way to inspire greatness and teamwork leadership! If you win a big individual award you dont even get a gift certificate for earlier said donut or even a donut ho-e! You get zip! Yes, I like donuts. Cheap a?? place. No cafeteria and overpriced vending machine or food trucks. I feel so appreciated. Sit at home in your recliner doing worthless meetings and get your bonus while the heroes actually work. Welcome to Nasdaq and brag about your accomplishment off of everyone else's hard work.
I started there in the 80's and left 2 years ago. The grounds, buildings and cafeterias were top notch and made employees proud of their careers. By the time I left everything was a dirty pathetic s***ho-e. The cafeterias served food that was fairly priced initially but later on turned into overpriced slop. Sadly once a place employees considered employment with a long career is now considered a mistake that they can't wait to leave.
Filth: yet another example of the disregard the ELT has for the workers.
I worked at a different site, and was amazed at how filthy the place was. The carpets were never cleaned, chairs were falling apart, drawers were covered with grime, the parking lot was pitch black at night and in the early morning, there were things on the toilet seats that I'd never seen before in my life. It was the filthiest place I'd ever worked, and visitors from other HW sites remarked on how nice it was. Frightening.
Since Covid WFH, all of my allergies have resolved and I don't spend the day hacking up a lung like I used to at the office. The overseas HW offices I visited were all MUCH nicer and were located in business centers with restaurants and other services, as opposed to being out in the middle of a deserted field. It's hard to be proud to work for a company that makes me cringe when I badge in.
The entire site leadership council is a joke. Bu-t kissing brown nosers
Clearwater workers are heroes?
Victims maybe in the sense of how abused people are unable to do what they know is needed.
Which is it? Are you abused and afraid to leave or just another person wishing they were one of the site leaders. Grow a pair and leave that destructive environment that is making you sick.
A huge number of posts here are specific to Clearwater. Can only mean a LOT of people have been hurt by that place.
They won’t replace the carpet in many areas due to the asbestos in the floor tiles being disturbed.
Why would you cut the weeds out front if you're not going to clean the bathrooms,, ever. When I left Deer Valley 5 years ago, they had duct tape over the holes torn in the carpet. Class Baby!
It reminds me of that pretend nuclear fallout neighborhood in The Hills Have Eyes. The employees coming out of the building literally look like zombies that cringe when the sun hits them. What a sad existence. Don’t get any of us started on the cafeteria. It’s been condemned and now they store junk in there. They have the “healthy” food trucks now. Supervisors hide in the parking lot writing down names and times to make sure employees are clocked out for lunch. How fun! I’m actually surprised we don’t have sign in/ sign out sheets to use the bathroom.
CLW is a sh-t ho-e. The leaders are no different. The workers are heroes.
C'mon man. Cash cows don't need to be pretty. Just milk them until they keel over. This isn't a beauty contest.
The conference rooms have never been updated, the chairs are from the 70’s and look like it. So embarrassing. The cubes/offices are the same. Plant 4 upstairs has had so many water leaks the place reeks of mold and mildew and the carpets are scary. The janitorial service no longer picks up trash from cubes/ offices. You gave to drag your trash to a “central area”. Not sure what they actually do anymore. The place is falling apart.
They spent some money on one floor there, mostly on asbestos remediation I imagine. That area has been a ghost town for 18 months.
I once visited a Kmart nearby that was cleaner than the production area in Clearwater. That place hasn’t seen a mop since the 90s.
How many engineers does it take to empty the trash?
Ans— all of them ever since they fired the janitors.
If you were unimpressed by the outside you should see the inside, especially the bathrooms or cubicles that haven’t been updated since the building was built it appears.
They are spending money to move the MN operations in and spent a lot of money on collaboration-friendly new areas. Not sure what they’ll do with those areas now in the age of social distancing.
Last time I was there the cafeteria was closed by the health department. Still better than Redmond ( slow starvation there) and Co-n rapids and Albuquerque and Morris Plains and Sarasota and Tucson and Renton, Anniston, Binton,York.. and ... I’m sure I missed a bunch. These are just the ones I visited in my quest to get a full collection of safety briefing cards. Certainly a bunch of sites that aero vacated and left to the other groups.