Thread regarding Honeywell International Inc. layoffs

Where are all those big changes to get a better score? I noticed they changed the mid-year reviews to where they are just a summary. What the hell is up with that?

I have been asked about employment at HON and have told them to NOT apply at HON and I gave honest reasons. All have gone elsewhere and are happy.

I will continue to let people know HON is a HORRIBLE place to work.

Spent 34 years there. Allied Signal destroyed the place. So glad I was able to retire early. Life is good now. What ever you do avoid this place like the plague.

I don't recommend Honeywell. Pure and simple.

Run away, this company has zero loyalty to employees. Manage by fear, you will move up if you kiss asses and never question stupid initiatives like call centers in India. The current leaders work only for their big bonus and stock option. You'll not be consider as a human being but as a cost and sometimes avslave.

I have been 35 years in the company k--ling myself , i have no doubt that if they can replace me in a low cost country tomorrow i will be thrown like an old Tampax ..i have witnessed how they have treated and fired many of my colleagues which were great employees .Just look at how the treat retirees...

I would not recommend Honeywell if you have any desire for job security. Their #1 goal is $ and treat employees as dispensable. Have really fallen from a good company to a use and abuse. Stay and expect what benefits you are given to gradually be removed or job outsourced/ eliminated- Very sad indeed.

Heck No. Funny question though. I laughed my A$& off when I saw the original email. Still laughing. That was a funny one.

Nada. Employees treated like liability not asset. Always looking for cheaper. Leadership goal not product based but expense based. Very pushy bosses that dont understand product or process. Stressful burnout environment. Trying to move to contract worker operations. No go.

I spent 35 years at Honeywell/Allied/Garret each year got worse and worse until at the end I gladly got the hell out of there. I would NOT recommend Honeywell to an enemy much less someone I regarded as a friend.

Honeywell has not embraced MAGA ?

Working here is the equivalent of contract work. If you just need a paycheck it will do. If you are looking for a long-term career then it's a gamble. Not a place I'd recommend to anyone with a family and financial responsibilities. There is no sense of job security.

I'd tell them to just use Honeywell for all you can since that is how they will treat you and to give them the same loyalty they give you, which is none. Sadly it's take advantage of them any way you can since that is how they treat employees.

Always keep your resume updated and look to see what jobs are available elsewhere every 3-6 months and interview with a couple of them. If it looks better take it at the drop of a hat since they will drop you if there is a .01% chance of a qtr report looking bad.

In a nutshell, Honeywell doesn't give a damn about you so no reason to care about them except for what you can get out of them.

Recommending employment at today’s HON would be like recommending DIY root canals. Been gone several years.

I am a 15 year+ employee and have worked in several SBGs. 5 years ago I might have recommended it for someone who was desperate, about to loose their home to foreclosure

Now I would make sure they have sold their blood and platelets first. And maybe a kidney before considering it. I'm only here until retirement or severance and 100% of my family, friends, strangers in line at TSA, grocery stores, wrong number callers, robo callers know not to work at Honeyhell

There maybe worse companies out there but nobody I know is aware of one

There should not be a comparison to willingness to die in combat

versus

trying to persevere working stateside for a commercial company in the US.

Unless we can all being guns to work,

and agree we could all die at any moment at work.

Is that the new Honeywell work paradigm -

that working in any if the facilities us as fraught with immediate mortality risk ?

just -WOW-

I would only answer that survey if That go publicly commits to posting all responses.

I will only answer that survey if JE publicly commits to posting all responses. I want to see what the real culture is without spin.

-1dgy: Your comment started with "are you naive, stupid, an HR flunky?" You sound like the people leading Honeywell that us workers are complaining about.

To the person who urges you to have some pride and courage - are you naive, stupid, an HR flunky?

The company already KNOWS the answer to the question.

The answer by a resounding majority is NO. Almost every is UNLIKELY.

They're just trying to 1) find out who they think they can count on to play along with the company line 2) make the more naive employees think "see, they DO care and they ARE going to change" and 3) to start pressuring people subtly to start taking the action they are surveying about.

When companies "change their culture" is NOT because they really care. It is because Strategic HR informs them that they are having trouble recruiting and retaining talent, particularly cheaper (and often younger and more naive) pools of people or skills in a certain area, usually technical or a niche.

So they run surveys and events to try to figure out exactly what are the minimum changes (or illusions of changes) that they have to seem to be making to get more of the people they want and to lose fewer people.

This advice to just play the game is NOT just at this company by the way. It's at almost every company.

Answer honestly at your own risk.

Save your pride and courage for something more important in your own life.

It is common knowledge at the local college that Honeywell is to be avoided unless you have no other offers. Yes, their reputation is that bad.

The prior comment about the HR meeting was humorous and spot on perfect.

For those who are posting warnings to people to not respond due to fear or anyone thinking about not posting due to fear, have some pride and courage. Our legacy is soldiers willing to die in battle for this country. Respond and be honest. To those on this board that just like to keep reiterating that there is no point, no chance for change, no hope ... We hear your point, but you don't need to keep saying it -- time for you to let it go and leave this thread -- spreading negativity is not healthy for anyone.

Yeah, I can picture the meeting with HR:

HR: Um, JE, 98% of your employees wouldn't recommend Honeywell to their friend.

JE: What???? Are you sure?

HR: Yes, the survey results are quite clear. In fact, some of the comments are not

very complimentary of your policies.

JE: I'm flummoxed. I mean, I post pictures of my funny socks on Yammer.

HR: Well, maybe you should consider rewarding people, instead of instilling

fear.

JE: Yeah, yeah. Whatever. I'm sure the employees are responding like that

because they don't like their TM's.

HR: Um, no.

JE: I know! Let's implement a new management tool to improve the relationship

between the employees and the TM's. There, problem solved. Now, how much

overtime should we require for the rest of the year?

Not unless they were desperate or they saw the job as merely a stepping stone (temporary) for some reason.

The place is awful.

Sure, any job is what you can make of it, and a good boss can hide a lot of garbage.. but if viewed just as a company, who could possibly recommend it?

I won’t respond to any internal survey because frankly “I fear reprisal” flat out truth. Open the survey up to outside the Honeywell network and maybe I will through a proxy.

By cancelling the defined benefit pension and now pulling mip for select band 4 employees... they are pretty much telling us we are just contractors. Why not just make it official.

Nope

Only as a last resort. My paycheck has only bounced about five times I’ve the years ( aka furloughed). Update your resume and begin to apply for new jobs the week you start Honeywell.

Remember there is no pension. The moment you have a $1000 better offer.. take it.

I won’t respond to any internal survey beyond “I fear reprisal” which is the flat out truth.

Not on your life would I recommend Honeywell to anyone. Who in their right mind would want to work for a company that HATES US workers, HATES older employees, has abysmal benefits, no vacation, no pension, unwarranted 46-48 hour work week, no chance of promotion, and that stupid 9 block employee rating... shall I go on?

My experience is it depends on the leadership, I worked at Honeywell for 5 years 3 different positions/promotions and managers. Then I went to the Clw site and New site leader came and I was out of there quick. I totally agree that people leave managers not companies

I had a friend who had been laid off at another company at a time when Honeywell was looking to hire.

This friend had been out of work for quite a while, and was very eager to work.

I called to let this friend know that Honeywell was hiring.

Afterward, I thought about it, and it started to bug me,

so I called back about an hour later and let my friend know about the work environment and management style.

I also mentioned that there were some s--c-des, one of them on-site.

My friend decided not to apply, and I felt much better.

My suggestion would be:

Explore all options, line up HON last

There is a ton fo small companies that are bad and owner micromanaged too, I hate those too

Is the tight job market finally getting Honeywell's attention? Are they having a tough time finding replacements for all the people quitting or retiring? Duh?

It isn't April 1st so I would have to assume that this guy is serious. How clueless can management be?

Never.

What a joke. Agree with other posters. They never use survey results to change anything if it means spending . Money is their only concern. So sad as I worked there for 39+years about 29 were fantastic and the last 10 were cut, cut, cut.

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No brainer - I do not recommend even to my enemies

Interesting. No survey response is ever anonymous. I wouldn't answer that survey. What will happen is that only people who say they would recommend HON will (should) respond, skewing the survey results and allowing the ALT to say that "Honey is well." Let's face it - how many times have surveys led to a positive change for employees?

Strictly short term if they have to!

After 37 years at Garrett, Allied-Signal then Honeyhell, no way, run don't walk to the nearest exit.

I would never recommend employment at Honeywell to anyone I thought of as a friend.