I remember once wishing I had this little work to do. I don't know what your situation is like, I hear from some colleagues that they are overwhelmed with work, but I don't have any work most of the time. I finish the job I have very quickly. This has been going on for a long time and doesn’t seem to me like a small break that can happen occasionally. I’m getting more and more anxious because layoff seems inevitable to me.
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Work is often witheld from those earmarked for removal in the future. I've seen grunts hired or brought in to departments where many experienced staff were sitting around with nothing to do. The grunts were regarded as cheaper and more "coachable" (loyal to the incompetent management).
Retention metrics have never been better 10percent or more leave with NO Severence required! Ideal situation and exactly on plan. Next up will be hugely successful campus job fairs where make all white candidates uncomfortable by manning the booths entirely with minorities. If you still work at honeywell turn your head to the left and bleat like the sheep you are... i hear you will get a mask and a jar of vaseline at the door in july. Good luck.
Extra work is only given to competent people that can handle it, so there is that...
I give up..What is a Ballywizzle?
I asked if I could help out other groups when I didn't have any work to do and was just told "STAY IN YOUR BALLYWICK". Whatever
Plenty of stuff to do but somehow you guys sitting around and doing nothing? So quit. Please be quiet before sOme of us losing our jobs. D... slackers
I was in a similar situation for'a while. In fact my workload was always either 200% or an absolute 0%.
Since Honeyhell is so containerized, I wasn't allowed to assist others. God forbid! I addressed this with my manager and proposed to help out procurement with basic stuff or engineering with spec reviews. Answer was: "No, thats too much of a risk and we can't be blamed for anything". " Keep yourself busy with something".
So I did. Initially I brought books to study for a class I was taking. After 2 months I didn't bother showing up anymore.
Having zero work is as stressing as too much, in the end you start feeling useless. Hence I stayed out of that environment. Got paid just the same......
I found not having work to do as stressful as having too much to do. Neither is a happy situation.
Hey OP. The same thing happened to me. Work dried up around January 2018. It took over 2 years for them to put me on the RIF list. Coast while you can while looking for a new gig.
@hac- I understand your point of view and agree completely that no one cares. I drove my own projects, as I loved doing what I was doing and always liked to push the envelope to bring most value. I wrongly assumed that the value of my work will be correlated with my growth. The day I realized that I was wrong, I shut- myself off (like many others) and planned to get out ASAP.
I don't initiate any of my own work or projects. As many stated, Manager could care less if you do or not. What you do or how much you do has no relation to getting RIF or not or your performance review. Unfortunately at this time no one at Hon cares. Except for corporate wants cash. I get so much work dumped on me from others to support production, ship product, it is impossible to keep up with. I'm not looking for more, I want less. I also stopped trying to get it all done. If you want work take a job in ISC supporting getting product shipped.
In HON, I realized early on that you need to drive your own projects or agenda (if you can connect with key stakeholders you could either participate or build your own projects). Managers are useless. I used to have conversations with different teams and top level executives despite being at much lower level in my role, that my managers had no clue. And then they will wonder why they were not invited into those meetings. Anyways, after developing a number of new initiatives and solving challenging problem, I wasn’t promoted as these managers kept sleeping and didn’t bother to grow me. Finally I was like sc--w it and within 2-3 months, I had a great offer. I had heard people leave because of their managers, it is still so true. I don’t mean to boost but talented people don’t have scarcity of jobs at this time. As far as I know, their retention metrics will hit low very soon.
Where I work shipments are way down from 18 months ago. That said, with all the RIF and people retiring or just leaving, we are razor thin on people. I see a lot of single point failures. Someone takes vacation and no one back fills. So seems everything is an emergency. I don't buy into the v-shaped, re-opening economy will come roaring back theory. Business is cyclical; you don't ship a lot of product for years and take a 1 year pause and resume big shipments again. These cycles take some time. I would welcome a RIF at my age, but with so few people actually doing work where I am I don't think it is likely.
If you have time, then I would suggest to build your resume, practice interviews and start applying outside. Why do you want to be at a place where you you are not developing professionally (because that will impact your career growth in HON)?
Yep, take it while you can 👍