I am in work today and I noticed fewer cars in the parking lot (because it is MLK day). Last year, one of my BIPOC colleague told me his boss encouraged her to take MLK day off. How inclusive is that when they whisper this to only some of us?
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hilarious. people work remote 2 days out of the week. typically monday and friday people work from home, so the parking lot would have fewer cars on those days.
MLK day was a Honeywell holiday in US offices.
My office was closed for MLK day. I’m not black so I was totally prepared to work
Honeywell is nothing more then a modern day sweat shop still on the government feed line to keep it afloat.
We used to get a pension too, perhaps that's why no new people want to stay? Several of my co-workers had to use the rest of their remaining vacation in December because they were continually denied requests throughout the year to use their time when they wanted. You know the whole sorry but we gotta make the numbers this week/month/quarter. Honeywell "used to" roll over vacation and even cut you a check at the end of the year for unused sick time. Maybe the concept of unlimited vacation that you can never use when you want to is reason enough for potential new hires to steer clear. Other than a steady paycheck, assuming you're not on a furlough, is there really any attractive reason why anyone would want to work for Honeywell anymore???
@1ggh I’m not angry at all, just didn’t have enough vacation time built up yet to do that. I just think it’s poor business planning and completely unproductive. Absolutely no reason for it. That’s why HW is on a slow decline to fail. Everything I hear about this company from senior employees is “we used to do this and we used to have that”. Sounds like you’re just another one of the many dinosaurs who misses the glory days and are just waiting for your pension. No wonder no new people want to stay.
We use to shut down the week of 7/4 and the last few weeks of December. Rather than being angry for people being out, take the time off yourself.
It’s a floating holiday available for anyone who wants to take it. What I don’t understand is how 3/4 of our plant was allowed to take the last few weeks of December off to the point that virtually nothing was accomplished. Never worked somewhere where that was allowed.