It’s to that point. The level of product we are producing is akin to a bad grade school project slapped together the night before the class while watching TV. NOTHING looks professional. Our customers notice too. Check out social media sites for boots on the ground customers that install and use our products - pick anything we make- most of what you see there isn’t good. Product is rushed out the door riddled with bugs, and the customer is the quality tester. It’s embarrassing to be affiliated with it. There’s a hubris in management that’s off the charts bad. Our knowledge based people are mostly gone now, with a handful left who are increasingly sidelined and marginalized making it impossible for them to do a good job. We are fractured to the extreme with R&D, and just wow. Time to pack it up.
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Soooooo.......I was waiting for my bonus but could not stand one more second being here and quit today right in the middle of a huge project.
They 5hit themselves, at first asking me if I was really sure, did I want a raise and being really nice then they turned super nasty when I just laughed in their faces and told them it was all going down the pan so I why put off the inevitable. I perhaps went too far in my honest assessment of the state of the business. You could see the look of te---r in my management's eyes. SO SATISFYING!! Taking a 6 month sabbatical traveling and then I start at a much job for a competitor who is growing a fantastic reputation in the industry! Oh boy it feels AMAZING!! The last 5 years here have been soul destroying watching something you helped build get decimated. BYE!
I have been pulled away from meaningful work to instead work on presentations for the customer to convince them that we are trying our hardest to succeed. My job title should not include any such work. They care more about the illusion of success than actually creating a successful product.
@5dny+1qwfQD9F Not sure about that, Nerds usually infer talent or intelligence. There is very little of that here.
Talent-less, unqualified maggots....that I can agree with you on.
This is the primary reason why I left summed up really well. Hang in there brother.
You see a lot of computer nerds and maggots with no social skills or professionalism whatsoever these days.
It is a tricky game, the salary is ok and you are bound by short term financial commitments to the area in which you live and it is a huge amount of logistics to leave. However work life is horrible and the longer you stay the more it impacts your ability to get meaningful work in the future. Before Honeywell I worked for respectable companies producing quality products that not only constantly challenged and developed my skill but gained me reputation and respect.
Here I am losing skills, it is impossible to change anything and I feel like I am both rotting away and damaging my chances of getting back to a respected company.
There is truth that Honeywell on your resume is a real turnoff to employers nowadays and it is understandable. The commenter below is correct, it is fear, but I fear the future the most and to stay will not give me a good future.
Time to stop procrastinating and leave before it is too late, I don't want to become a 'has been'.
So why have you stayed? Don’t tell me “stuck” as that is code for “scared”.
The stench of rotting garbage filters down from the ivory tower.
When you feel that way, just try to think what JW would do. No doubt he would make it the best product ever. He would provide the most value ever. He would market it the way possible. He would think outside of the box (boxes are for Iosers). He would have gotten every single customer to weigh in on it and he would have gotten even more of them (somehow) to pay for the R and D. He would think of everything (even though you told him everything 6 months earlier and he snidely dismissed you).
When you think “WWJWD?”, then and only then can you and your teams make something worth a da mn. Thank God for sending us His second Son.
There is a critical component on an engine that has a poor in-service record, and the airframe manufacturer is pi---d. Honeywell’s solution is to provide a back-up system on an overly crowded and heavy engine. This was relayed to my design team and just about everyone in the room started grinning, with my manager stating concern why HW didn’t just fix their quality issues. Even though I have been gone for a few years and had nothing to do with that component when I was there, I was embarrassed to have the HW name included in my resume.
I avoid mentioning my job history included HW due to what has become of what was once a highly respected engine and component design source.
“Sorush” is the motto and it starts at the top. Rush rush rush and crush crush crush. Fly to India on the company dime and fulfill your fantasy one general at a time.
Over time (ACS to SPS) I noticed the pendulum swing from product quality to one where meeting product margins/project schedules became increasingly important. Some of the products I saw released would have never made it out the door in former times.
Generally tapped-out has-beens and game-players in management these days, obtaining their positions through connections and relatives.
ALL the good people have gone!
It's a travesty, I am suffering the daily circus until my MIP comes through then I am off to a competitor, although you can't really call Honeywell competition any more.
The calibre of engineers and designers at Honeywell has reached an all time low, only matched by the unqualified and hopeless id--ts that 'manage' us. I too feel ashamed to be here, the decline of this company in the last decade has been eye watering. I don't even pretend to customers any more that our products are worth buying, it genuinely makes me depressed. My wife is pushing me to leave and I agree with her. This battle is lost, time to leave.