Thread regarding 3M layoffs

When employee morale is no longer valued, people slowly break. Motivation evaporates, replaced by exhaustion, resentment, and quiet disengagement. Talented individuals burn out or walk out the door, taking product knowledge and loyalty with them, while those who remain operate on autopilot, doing just enough to get by. For 3M the damage is equally severe: productivity plummets, innovation stalls, quality suffers, and hidden costs from constant turnover and recruitment skyrocket. In the end, a workplace that treats morale as optional doesn’t just lose hearts and minds, it loses its competitive edge and long-term viability.

@a2 Google his name… he is on a list from 2016.. swap out the company names, it is exactly what people speak of.

Totally agree that thug-Lin was horrible. Roman was a poor choice. Bb just sees it as something to fix. Don’t worry he is retiring next year. Question is who will succeed….

Morale in IT couldn't get any lower.

The whole managed services debacle is both a kick in the teeth for morale and a frustrating, inefficient hassle to deal with that's stalled out productivity and caused twice the problems it could have solved.

@a8
Even from Inge times they probably knew how bad the company was. He did his part in keeping stocks up and minted his millions. Roman had a job given to takes care of the law suits and put an end to PFAS and spin off healthcare. He minted millions. Now BB probably was brought in to shrink and divide… he trying to mint his millions. Now, in all these games why didn’t they keep pumping CRL as though it was a holy place where nothing will come out …. Just to show Wall Street that they invest in R&D …

@a7 TEBG for sure is suffering

Where are the exciting new products and sales growth, the innovation that has been promised for 20 plus years. Bill Brown is the same as Mike Roman, slash abd burn, a lit shorter and doesn't seem to see past his nose from quarter to quarter. Same old game of pulling orders forward, and lying. It's the sameness and staleness that has set in since 2018 when Thulin was financially engineering the stock price. Share buybacks, cutting employees quietly, offshoring, and cut cost all to benefit the Corporate operating comitee and the Senior VP class. All management cares about is lining their pockets.

morale in my sibg team is quite upbeat. So not sure which parts of the co are suffering. Maybe hr can help.

@a2

You’re a clown. What the CEO is doing is equivalent to driving a car on fumes, 10000 miles overdue for an oil change, and burnt out headlights and touting how great the numbers look because no money is being spent. It’s completely unsustainable.

Our ceo is not running it to the ground. He is getting share price up. Which is great. We are finally becoming a Wall Street company rather than a white Minnesotan mess.