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Software quality manager back in the days of CMMI. Didn't know a damn thing about C much less C++.
Loved to have long meeting where she would point out many things wrong with peoples work. Even though there usually wasn't anything wrong. She just didn't like it.
Honeywell eventually stopped its CMMI initiative. She was let go because she was useless.
Wish I could say this was confined to one person, but sadly it happened more than once during my time at Hon:
- Project not going well. Boss calls meeting. Decided team needs a meeting 3-times a week in order to resolve problems.
- One week later, project still floundering. Meetings move to once per day.
- Project continues to flounder. Meetings move to twice per day.
"The meetings continue until the metric improves" has often been the order of the day.
Common theme here. Mist starts with "she".
I had a manager that always opened her meetings with "tell us a story about yourself" or "Tell us....fill in the blank." it was a total waste of time for her employees. Then pound us with presentations that lacked proper punctuation. I told her I wasn't an English major but a damn good mechanical engr.
We needed a FAIR done on a part
HON site
The HON QE did it on the test fixture instead - which didn’t need a FAIR
Had a coworker who was trying to impress people with how connected she was.
Her claim:
‘My ex stepmoms 3rd husband is the founder of ATT’
New team member joined our team one day. In her role she was required to travel twice a week to DV. She lived in Tempe and was based in Tempe.
She openly complained about the commute she had to make.
At the time I was traveling to Singapore for 3 week trips at a time. She asked me what project I was working on and I explained along with my travel schedule
Her response:
You are lucky, I would way prefer that. I have the drive an extra 20
Minutes twice a week because of this job
Sits in a meeting, says nothing, let's everyone work out a solution and agree on it and then says.... "Yes, that is correct ! That's the way to do it!" Then disappears and does nothing.
I was laid off 2 years ago
During the layoff meeting with the VP and HR I was told that my employment with HON has ended and that I was to stop working on all projects immediately
As soon as the call ended, my manager called me and gave me a list of actions that she wanted completed
Likes the sound of his own voice.
Has the inability to listen.
Talks over everyone.
Is Welsh.
Any IT VP or Director
Any HR VP or Director
Any HR person involved in hiring process
The id--t who was in charge of explaining what the useless new HOS thing is, for training.
One key outline was missing a detail part and was unable to ship. We had no line of site light to receive it from the vendor.
Turns out we found parts at a site but they belonged to our customers customer - the US Government.
I was told to reach out to the customer and demand that they let them use their customers- the US government- parts so we could ship by end of month and book revenue. To make matters more ridiculous the customer we were shipping to was a direct competitor of the customer who had custody of the part.
All of this was conveyed over a mass email with minimum 100 people on it. Zero sense and self awareness by the managers
Incompetent, or evil genius? It's apparently the MM plan for success.
Previous PM committed to selling. Product for a certain price without knowing the requirements, specifications, weight and dimensions of the part. Predictably when the design was finalized the supplier quoted a price 10 times more than what HON committed to sell it for in the contract with the customer, refused to go on LTC and demanded to own the IP. Single worse negotiation in the history of business, or as HON calls it, Tuesday
Was asked to produce a ‘multi year NPV’ analysis for a project
I asked what was the difference between NPV and multi year NPV?
My manager admonished me by saying that NPV is Net Present Value and multi- year means doing it for multiple years out
The guy that always has to do training.
Software Quality Assurance Analyst— did not understand software development, our product, our customers, their regulatory laws, or their industry. Would waste amazing amounts of time on total non-issues. Was affectionately known as The Ant F****r.
Golden BOY
We had an ISC head supervisor tell us to "just run the parts" after we told them that we can't check the parts.
que Benny Hill music as 55 gallon barrels full of scrap parts are hauled away
I knew this guy that just non stop posted stuff online trash talking everthing in their life.
There was this one coworker from my group with the most toxic superiority complex that I ever witnessed... You know the type. In the minds of these people they are better, faster, and smarter in every way possible and they try to rub your nose in it at every opportunity.
Long story short I had decided to move on as I had enough of working 70 hour weeks with a significant portion of that being unpaid overtime. Within the last few days of my notice period 'Mr. Superiority' decided to tell me that the people who leave are the ones who simply refuse to work as hard as he does...
At that point all I could do is laugh. People need to realize that embracing this kind of mentality is not a flex. It just means that you enjoy to deep throat the boot...
Many years ago I applied for a Materials Manager role at a site. I knew it was a bit of a stretch but I wanted to get some on-site experience and thought it would be worth a shot
I applied, made it through multiple rounds interviews but ultimately didn’t get the role.
A few weeks later I had a face to face meeting with HR and my manager accusing me of not being prepared for the interview. I was reprimanded and spoken to like a child.
I followed up with the HR manager who interviews me and she explained I did well in the interview but they wanted a more seasoned candidate and one that was already on site.
This information was related to my boss and local HR and they concluded that I was ‘unprepared’ for the interview
I sent an email to a customer summarizing an issue we were having with a delivery to them
In the summary I listed the price the customer purchases the part from HON per the PO and contract
My manager who was on CC took me to task for sharing confidential information with a customer
Apparently the price customers buy the part from us is confidential
She was confused - thinking it was standard cost or the price we buy the part from a vendor. No amount of explaining could convince her
This person kept spelling the ‘Governance Board’ as the ‘Governess Board’
When I pointed out her the spelling error she stated that Governess is the female version of Governance and since she is a woman it is appropriate that she use the female version of the word
Draw your own conclusions