Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

Jack Welch and his protege LARRY Bossidy. I started in 96' lived through it all. I remember driving down the road on my way to a service call and I heard the news on the radio about a merger with GE. After that got squashed all the sudden it was Allied. Still here..still getting paid. Field work non-exempt is the way to go!

-100y: Who do you think approved the current management hierarchy at Honeywell -- if not Dave Cote? All the upper management at what was Allied Signal are ciphers of Cote. And now that has spread to the former Honeywell; the buyer gets to purge the buy-ee of their upper management. Duh.

Complain all you want but we, in the greater Honeywell organization, are all screwed. Even the new hires in the 'low cost' countries. They might not know it yet, but as Yoda once said: "they will".

The laid off Sarasota folks will surely remind DC at his new beach house up the road how they feel.

The AS buyout of Honeywell happened in 1999 and the leaders involved are long gone. What a pointless conversation.

Since Allied bought Honeywell, approximately 90% of the Aerospace leaders have been legacy Allied and not Honeywell. Still like this today. Do not tell me that it was all DC that caused the demise of Honeywell.

2008 the economy was the excuse to step on accelerator of cuts at Hon. Remember the 10% pay cut and no 401k match? I remember the big announcement to all Engines employees regarding the move to Chihuahua and the comment from DC himself that there would be no layoffs. Kind of like Bill Clinton talking about the meaning of the word "is".

Yes Welch s---ed the life out of GE. Stock was 70 in 2000 and GE was #1 market cap company. 17 years later stock at 25. Dave is cut from exact same mold. HON stock at all time high, but what is left? Let the slow morphine drip begin.

As a former AS employee, now Honeywell, I too can attest to the fact that Allied Signal was a great company to work for- great benefits, leadership etc.

Whatever happened with the merger had to do with the wrong people somehow gaining control- not with Allied Signal or Honeywell per se.

Textron here. Started going to crap the first week after we got acquired by Allied, and it's been a downhill slide since then.

yeah started at Airesearch here. Fantastic company to work at. When they merged AS and HON they typically choose to retain the best benefits that each company had. Then after a few years as CGY posted below DC started cutting and eliminating benefits/perks. When the economy was sinking in the 2007/2009 time frame he used that to accelerate the process by say that eliminating/reducing benefits including raises and taking furloughs was much better that RIFIing people. So as other have stated blame DC.

The reason the name AS was dropped was because the Honeywell name had a lot more recognition with the general public IE. millions of Honeywell thermostats in homes. In fact the Garrett name and probably even Aireseach for that matter was far better know to the general public at the time than Allied Signal.

When I started it was Garrett, the best of all three.

Blame GE. The GE culture spawned the likes of Dave Cote and before him Larry Bossidy.

If you want to blame someone blame the idiots in charge.

Nice try, but we as Allied Signal employees had all those same perks pre-merger. The blame lie solely on Dave Cote for cutting all perks and creating this Honeywell you see before us now.