When the company keeps promoting people based on their ability to kiss butts instead of merit, the negative results are long-lasting. Insecure managers will do all in their power to drain away your confidence in hopes of you not noticing that you are five times more qualified to do their job than they are. When that happens everybody - including HON - loses. Why are things like this happening constantly? Why can't we start promoting people who deserve it and who will lift their employees instead of putting them down?
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This is management running Honeywell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVEyboHpDK0
You’re right! We now have record scrap. If that wasn’t bad enough, we also have recalls. We are now creating more rework and less good parts.
We around lost two contracts. These people aren’t qualified. All they know how to do is push parts. Who cares about quality anymore.
We also have to work more Saturdays, and Sundays. In order to push more parts. They have no more days left in the calendar. In order to recover from record rework parts. No degrees, no qualifications, and learn as you go. Resulted in leadership who only solution in order make deadlines or should we say quotes. Increase overtime and streamlining processes. Very sad day honey well.
The worst I have ever seen it here. I been working here for almost ten years. Expect more contract losses. We will have orders that are late. Because we pay our suppliers ever six months, and don’t receive their best parts. They go to people who pay monthly.
My place has a special room to inspect supplies parts. 100% of our supplier parts. Now I have to be inspected. Which slows down in production even more.
In my opinion place is a joke. I can see why most professional companies have people with degrees. We have someone in our place. Who has a degree in automotive. Who is now qualified to run a production line. Another who used to run Home Depot. They have no idea what the he-l they’re doing. Honeywells new motto. Learn as you go.
Never had this much rework parts until They start hiring people who kiss bu-t. I can see what happens when you have unqualified people running a huge company. Expect aerospace to fail.
There is a VP in the Airbus business segment that promoted a woman from a Sr Program Manager to. Sr program Director. She got the double promotion because she had such easy programs and incredibly competent and experienced engineering team being successful while she had no clue what was happening in the program.
She is still a sr director in the airbus business segment and totally useless, she takes credit for everyone’s else hard work and the VP still thinks she is wonderful.
Classic example of a promotion not worthy of skills or experience and purely based on anything you care to imagine.
Unbounded arrogance is another attribute that will be rewarded with unjustified promotions. But, this is a bad personality trait rather than a good leadership quality. Management doesn’t know that. Management wouldn’t know talent if it kicked them in the nut$. Plus, only those involved in succession plans will be promoted. Succession plans are constructed by clueless managers who rely on being persuaded by those worthless employees who have made a career out of practicing workplace politics. If you are not in a succession plan, nothing good you do will better your position.
This is the Maddog effect.....if you look at every org he leads within 6 months of him arriving, the org is completely changed with few exceptions. Leaders realize what kind of person he is and they either leave the company or take new roles. The ones left are usually moved by MM because they are probably stronger leaders that he can not manipulate. So....he hires younger leaders with zero experience and zero backbone so he can control them. Oh, HR can market the promotions as leaders taking ownership of their own careers and being true future shapers and lots of back patting on how diverse the company is. Performance will not improve because MM inspires no one but himself. The problem here is the guy at the top and soone big D figures that out, Aero can get on with things.
Friends hire friends. Workers get work.
When I was in college, there was a professor (with tenor) that on the first day of class each semester would announce to his engineering students: "thirty percent of your grade is based on my personal opinion of you, so if I don't like you the best you can do in the class is a C." He was such a di-k, I guess you can image which way I went. Moral of the story, bu-t kissing works. Some choose to call it diplomacy. I was never very good at it here at HW.
If you expect life to be "fair" you're setting your self up for a lot of disappointment. Try climbing the technical ladder as the only woman in a large group of engineers. I tried to keep my head low while I was there but but I stood out like a sore thumb. My work was ground breaking and egos came out in force to try and stop my success. In the long run I was very successful in spite of it all. Between fighting off career attacks and se-ual harassment I left with a bad attitude and plenty of savings. Now I just see it as character building. Life in retirement is very lucrative and the confidence I gained within while being a very sucessful hardware engineer is invaluable.
Why? It threatens the status quo to keep those "threats" from a rung on the latter.