What the he-l is going on here at Honeywell? Everywhere I look I see incompetence in positions of power. HR, management, IT. Every single gatekeeper here can’t seem to accurately keep their gates. Which causes problems across the board. With customers, legal issues, employees, and getting the work done. I feel like I’m working at some rinky-di-k badly run start up destined for the dustbin. I’ve worked at Honeywell long enough to know it wasn’t always like what I see today. Holy sh-t it’s bad. There’s no way this is sustainable long term. Based on what I’m seeing now I think 2024 Is going to be a bloodbath for regular employees in multiple ways, not just layoffs, the ones left will have the misery level increased by a lot before they too are discarded.
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I want to start a grass roots campaign shaming companies for wages paid to overseas workers. Diversity is a cover story for racism via labor markets. Level the pay. If nobody will do that work for what you offer .. so be it. If the workers can’t do the job in the neighborhood you can afford so sorry too bad.
Be honest and pay equal wages.
It's pants, all respect has gone and that's both ways. Do what we do less work equals higher hourly rate. We know corporate management is bad, but trust me local management is SO much worse, the stories I could tell! And have but its weak management in Aero UK.
Just get out. I did and no longer have to deal with that nonsense. That's what they want anyway
The constant game of scramble for acronyms on so-called new efficiency initiatives will never end; and they never ever track and document actual so-called saving to check against their rosy promises per the initiatives. Gold whatever, accelerator ( to oblivion) should all become LOL
It’s fairly simple. There’s no accountability anywhere to be found at the management level.
Dysfunction is what I use to call the situation; yes, dysfunction due to incompetence. Chaos everywhere, mainly attributable to management's determination to fake a better profit picture to drive up the share price. Share price is the only matter management cares about; for a higher share price, these guys would sell their @#@@# for a dollar. The business organizations and support functions used to know what each one should do and would generally do it (albeit at mediocre quality); hence the water was still held in the bowl. Now, since DA's reign, they've broken a barely holding system into pieces (to reduce costs by using the cheapest labor possible under some newly minted, consultant-generated fancy trendy acronyms); and water has been spilled everywhere. Sad thing is that the only path forward is to continue what they have been doing for the last 5 years.
In this environment, quiet quitting is the only way; unless you can exit this pathetic sinking ship.
lol you have their role backward. Job of gatekeeper is to limit access to resources. IT for instance has metrics around year over year tool cost reduction. They have ZERO metrics around helping you do your job. I haven’t seen one procurement metric that says “spend more than 70M on capital within Q1. Not how the game is played. Your job Your problem.
So.. anyone thing of taking some overpaid executive job that smells like IT or HR or Procurement or Finances just understand that your entire function at Honeywell will be to tell people NO and make up stories about how it will get better… you are gatekeepers guarding the warehouse full of food during a famine. People are going to LOVE you! Not
Gatekeepers = the people that handle the mundane infrastructure that allows business to run smoothly. Like people issues, hiring, making sure you get paid, making sure boxes are ticked so that x,y, or z can happen. Accesses to needed tools for whatever job you’re doing, etc.
Idk, need more specifics. Not really sure what you mean by gatekeeper.
In many cases my frustrations seem to be driven by new regulation out of the US government. Procurement is the biggest headache with massive rules from outside Honeywell forcing all kinds of delays. Cyber is second on the list with new government rules flowing down monthly, often driven by US executive order versus some actual law.
I have 38yrs with honeywell (red) and can tell you we used to take bigger risks for sure.. and often those risks caused massive unmitigated disasters like 5x overruns. Now they spend more time on the numbers. Need to spend more time designing products that can be built.
Yeah, no. The sleeze was always a thing in management, particularly senior management. Lots of stories of massive corruption etc. but what I see now is incompetence, not just management, but every single gatekeeping function. Like inability to keep things going fairly smoothly. Granted, that was always a thing too, but it wasn’t nearly as prevalent as today. Seems to me the incompetence has increased by 10 fold. So now I’m seeing huge cracks in the facade. Doesn’t bode well for people working here. Regular people.
Back in the "good ole days" it was just the same as today. You were just not senior enough to see the sleaziness andcrecognize it for what it was. This is especially true if you started at a small division or company that was bought out.