Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

You might wanna ask yourself

Honeywell is totally committed to the foolish idea of pitting employees against each other for the sole purpose of maximizing the number of hours they spend at work. As a result they are building a soulless monolith of worker drones that sit in their cubes reading trade magazines and whose greatest joy in life is wearing a Hawaiian shirt on Fridays.

If you are on a PIP and there are no real performance issues, it's undoubtedly because you are not playing their game as well as your fellow co-workers. You might want to ask yourself if you really want to work in a place that cares less about your family and outside interests than they do about meeting some truly meaningless metric, a place where experience and creativity take a back seat to the number of free overtime hours they're convinced they're wringing out of you.

Some people are surprisingly happy to work in such a place. Others are trapped and unfortunately have to play the game. I never was PIPed, but I saw the writing on the wall and was lucky to be able to get out. IMO they're past the point of no return and this company has a dismal future.

Saw this post in another thread, could have put it better myself. OP is @Vj0chZI-3xfl

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I left Hotel California. I took all the learning and skills gained, and now, I make 30% more money for doing regular work hours and work-life balance. I hope you find the way out of HC.

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Post ID: @8dtf+VnhmvdJ

I know an employee who was in an impossible job situation - way over worked, basically threw in the towel, and was subsequently fired. He received a sizable check on the way out. For him much better than quiting. He was late 50's and close to retiring.

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Post ID: @5koy+VnhmvdJ

Does HON pay severance to those PIP'd out? It may sound silly but we used to see that...

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Post ID: @4jnq+VnhmvdJ

It was told to me rather matter of factly by my HR rep ( parroted by a T2 at a skip level meeting) that their is no standard work week. your work week is dictated by the work that needs to completed that week with 40 hrs being the minimal acceptable. As a manager It is on me to make sure you always have more 40 hrs worth of work (currently 44), and if you finish that early I need to find you more work, even if that means farming you out to other groups. with the way people are leaving i would imagine that the EEI will need to increase to cover the staffing shortages.

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Post ID: @1kst+VnhmvdJ

I am sure they will squeeze more next year. With each year comes a new squeeze. It was mentioned by a T4 recently that this is not a 40 hr/wk job, it is 50hr/wk job! Besides the EEI push, the yield targets are getting outrageous. I have seen a lot of new young employees leave within the first two years of starting to work here. They don't have to put up with this nonsense.

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Post ID: @1yvi+VnhmvdJ

I have to see have seen the same thing. Employees that do nothing except go around and chat but stay late hours. Ridiculous.

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Post ID: @1kag+VnhmvdJ

The sad part is they don't do any actual work, they just stay late and camp out and add to the capital charge numbers to make look like they've done more work. It's not that they spent more time working on Programs. It's just that they stayed later and didn't charge to OH. It's not like anything more was done. It's stupid.

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Post ID: @imf+VnhmvdJ

It is very obvious they do not care. I come to work everyday thinking it will be my last, and one day I plan to walk out. I do see guite a few very young new hires that seem happy and appears Hon taken care of them. Definitely only looking at cost and not much else.

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