Took early retirement in May of last year after being denied First wave VRIF. The PIP was a wake up call to say enough was enough of watching the lunatics running the asylum that is Honeywell into the ground. No longer do I need antidepressants nor ambien to sleep nights after Honeywell stripped me of my passion to be a great engineer. Young engineers dare not consider a future in Aerospace with Honeywell. . . . If you do you will regret it.
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Do you get severance if you are let go after being put on a PIP?
My resolution is to be offered 26 weeks and retire. Either way this is my last year st Honeyhell
New Year's Resolution - find another job and leave Honeywell.
Maybe it's everywhere but my site? But I doubt it. I'm at phx engines btw.
This Honeywell-induced depression and insomnia must be site-related. I can't imagine anyone that I work with having those issues.
15 hours ago by Anonymous | Post ID: @L58Ezym-wcv.
Sorry the "cut and paste" sux on website . . . This is tied to the previous attempts to communicate that this issue is not site specific . . . It's endemic within Honeywell aerospace.
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Not sure where you work. Depression and insomnia are the norm amongst engineers within Honeywell Aerospace.
"Young engineers dare not consider a future in Aerospace with Honeywell. . . . If you do you will regret it."
I can attest to this as a young engineer myself. I started at Honeywell Aero right out of college. I felt like my life was on the line on most days. There always seemed to be a huge emergency or huge deadline that could not wait till the next day; plus, it didn't help that the management liked to use guilt-tripping tactics to get more and more unpaid OT out of me and other coworkers. If I worked an all nighter, I still felt compelled (due to a no comp-time policy) to be at work the next morning 7 am sharp. After just a few years of working there my blood test results were not so great (even though I was only in my early 20s) so all the stress and pressure really was making me physically sick. I was lucky to get out a few years ago and have been putting a lot of effort to live a healthier lifestyle since then.
Wishing OP and everyone else on here a healthy and happy life.
Well the PIP almost guarantees the 26 week severance if he's been there s while or a week a year up to the 26 weeks
I'm trying to get the PIP SO I get the 26
All the best. There is life after Honeywell
You couldn't have said it better. I'll bet there are a lot of doctors scratching their heads at the need to dispense so many anxiety or anti-depressant medications for Honeywell employees. I went through what you are describing a few years ago. This is nothing new for the blackhearts in HON management.
I am a wife of a Honeywell engineer and I just want to say, we have spent the better part of this getting sicker and sicker. This noose around our neck gets tighter every single day we are with Honeywell. I pray it ends soon.
Too afraid to volunteer, at was too afraid. Not next time- well if not picked this time
Oh and to the OP: my husband is right now where you were. Right down to the made up PIP.
blessings to you/
It just isn't Honeywell. Retirement seems beneficial in general. http://wealthyretirement.com/slap-in-the-face-award-video/boost-long-term-wellness-by-retiring-now/
This Honeywell-induced depression and insomnia must be site-related. I can't imagine anyone that I work with having those issues.
All my best to you. I'm following you out the door.
My girlfriend was so glad I didn't get a job back at Honeywell Aero after the last time I got layed off. She knows that I wanted to talk about how bad the company was a lot of the time while I worked there, so it's good for her I didn't go back there. But then again, I couldn't go back there if I wanted to, because all the plant will hire for engineering is foreigners now. Fly 'em in for 6 months, pay for their hotel the entitled. They wrote the tax laws. Artificial profits with no cares about local economies. Plus, the foreigners mostly keep their money back home so no benefit to 'merica.
I ran into an ex-Honeywell Aero co-worker & his wife at the grocery store a few weeks back and I hadn't seen him for over a year. I heard he had "suddenly retired" after my RIF. He looked happier than I've seen him in years. He told me that he HAD to get out of there because of all the B.S. pressure & unrealistic expectations & massive overtime. He told me that the best thing he ever did was leave. His wife agreed (you know why). Then her and my girlfriend sat down & bonded and talked about how great it was that neither of us worked there anymore, and will probably never work there again. That's why Honeywell workers should respect how bad Honeywell makes it for our significant others & families due to such an awful company to work for.
What a great company & culture (cough)!