Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

@KOC7EHn-1hlc

This guy is either an idiot or is a corporate hack sent here to try and keep the facts from ruining the company

It is bad and other companies are not as bad, there is no company as bad as Honeywell.

Honeywell has no continuity, no succession planning. They only promote political insiders that are blessed in the MRR process, a secret selection process that secretly ranks people, and the employee is not allowed to know his/her ranking, so no way to know you are being discriminated against.

There is no accountability, and people are constantly working work around to get the job done. You attend meetings and you cannot understand the participants, they are all from India, Puerto Rico or Mexico. Non citizens taking American jobs, Honeywell is no longer an American company.

Best of luck, but this is not a good place to work these days. It is chaos on a daily basis being held together by crisis management everyday.

I am looking and if I were about to join a company going under, I wish they would tell me to run

During tough times moral ebbs. I've worked for several companies and there is always low moral during layoffs. Things get much better when when layoffs stop and sales increase. If you think that sales will increase then moral will improve greatly at Honeywell.

There also seems to be a number a malcontents that post here.

Several people I know have gone to other companies and found similar low moral.

Wow someone is trying to make money off this situation

Any response telling you "do it" or "don't do it " without knowing anything about your personal situation should definitely be filtered out. A lot of disgruntled employees post here with malice and a handful of well-meaning employees (myself admittedly included) try to counter the disgruntled ones.

That said, there have been furloughs, layoffs, and reductions in benefits. The latest announced aero layoff for Q4 hasn't occurred yet and hiring appears to have picked up. Hopefully those are good signs. Assuming you've been researching other companies, you're probably better informed on benefits than the posters here.

I've been here a while, have worked for other companies and in general prefer Honeywell. It's really not as bad as these people make it out to be but there are obviously better companies out there.

Ask me anything and best of luck to you.

There is no "Honeywell Family" anymore. You'll find yourself alone trying to get work done with none or minimum help. Self learning should be a good skill for you, training is non existent but you will be held 100% accountable. The bright side is that you can make this a personal challenge to overcome. You can make yourself strong by learning how to work for a place with so many problems at this point.

Hey @KOC7EHn-1twa,

When you wrote "Don't let people discourage you from an opportunity of a life time. Come join the Honeywell family.", you were totally kidding right? Right?

Look at how many employees are reading each post. It is never fun to get laid off. Many old timers worked crazy hours for over 35 years because the company used to treat us with dignity and respect. The documented company benefit reductions on this blog are real.

Don't let people discourage you from an opportunity of a life time. Come join the Honeywell family.

I've worked here for a while now. Great people, bad leadership, worsening benefits. Come here only if no other offers are available.

I just left for another Aerospace company. You should stay away unless you literally have no other option. I worked in Aero ECOE and it was poorly run, with ineffective leaders, low morale, and incompetence at every level. Leaving was the best move I've made, with a bigger salary, better and cheaper benefits, and competent leaders. Good luck to you.

Yes

It used to be a good place to work - wouldn't go near it now! Now has terrible leadership (just look at cote and his dodgy share dealings), RIFS, pension reductions, no flexible working, not to mention the new holiday policy in the US. But its not just the US - same in Europe. Stay well away!!! It's got absolutely no chance of becoming the next cyber industrial and Cote is better gone - he is the unacceptable face of capitalism. Leadership is so far up its own arse that they can't see that they are destroying the company and the morale of its greatest asset - it's staff.

The fact that you are doing due diligence and asking this question indicates that you are smart enough to find a job at a real company. Good luck. If you are desperate you can come here, fill up your canteen, and then move on as soon as another job opens up elsewhere.

Do not look at Honeywell as a career- a short stepping stone if you have no other offers but this company is going down fast. And yes, they def target the long time LOYAL employee who has spent their career here, and yes, has a good paycheck- so just remember. Only plan for the short term or you too will be tossed out like garbage solely because you believed if you worked hard and did a great job you'd be safe. Ha no one is safe here. Ever. Sorry for negativity but Honeywell has taken all morale to a new low. Benefits s---. No vaca really. No pension. No WFH (like every other progressive company in this century) horrible HR and horrible management.

Good luck to you -

Thanks. Seems like I have some thinking to do. And for those who asked why I came here to ask this question, while researching the company this came up and it seemed to be realistic as opposed to other things I found.

Ditto to the response just before mine: If you have no other offers, accept the job, a paycheck is a paycheck. Keep your resume updated and keep searching. Things are only getting worse here.

If you have no other offers, accept the job, a paycheck is a paycheck. Keep your resume updated and keep searching. Things are only getting worse here.

I wouldn't say "full of lies", but I will agree this is not a site to get an enthusiastic "yes" from, if that's what you're looking for, haha.

Sorry. Why did you come to this site and ask for advice? This is a site about layoff and all news are negative and speculation or full of liesI

This is a very un-healthy place to work.

Don't take it unless you need a paycheck. Do not stop your job search though.

You do not want to stay here more than a few months.

Does this opportunity represents a new step on your career? Like, a substantial salary increase? A new tittle? Think selfish, what can you achieve or take from this opportunity.

For the most part I don't recommend you taking the job. If it's a lateral change don't do it. If you feel comfortable where you work now don't do it. If it changes your family routine, adds to your commute, etc don't do it.

What you will find will not be pretty. Lots of uncertainty, demotivated co workers, horrible management to mention a few.

You'll be good, they are getting rid of all the old hands, the ones with lots of vacation time and fat paychecks... ;)

I say do it, been looking for jobs and no luck it's hard when you don't have experience

Don't do it.

I would be concerned. There is no continuity, no succession planning, rugs and furloughs with little notice, major reorganization in January and your job may be phased out.

I recently hired someone, could not tell them about the upcoming tif or furlough, and this person was furloughed the first month he worked for me

Dude... I don't know if I even recommend it as an entry-level position. That's what I have currently after being here for 5+ months and I already am looking elsewhere.

It may not have been a bad company long before I showed up, but it seems even newbies like myself have the chance of being RIF'ed next month.

I'd say keep looking, but only take it if nowhere else is accepting new-hires. Don't settle for less, though.

Depends on group and location.

Just a heads up, the company won't start matching 401k contributions until you have reached 1 year of service. Consider that when comparing to other offers you might have. This wasn't communicated to me clearly from HR when I joined, I was told of match but not that you needed 12 months of service to be eligible for the match

Run as fast as you can to the next opportunity. Let this one go by.

If this will be an entry level position, then yes, work here to get experience. Be sure to understand our benefits and policies before you start.

Don't do it...unless you have no other opportunities and need a job badly.

it depends...is it based in India or China?

If not then dealing with people around you constantly being "lifted", rif'ed and leaving and not being replaced then its great. Not to mention...no resources to get anything done, surrounded by people incapable of delivering anything, no accountability, leadership that says one thing then gives zero support then this is the place for you.

oh yea, a rediculously bad procurement and HR dept that have processes that are impossible to enable anything getting done....even the most basic of things.

I wont even go into not being able to hire in the US...

if you are out of work id recommend it...if you are leaving someplace to come here...think long and hard.