How many repeats will we have at leadership conference 2025?

The sooner you leave, the sooner your life will improve - including your future outlook. Source: personal experience.

The Roman Empire will be exiting stage left on April 30th to make room for BIG Bad Bill Brown to work his magic. 3Ms final earning call is later this month. These are often the times when companies announce massive layoffs to please Wall Street... — read more 

Anybody using MCE experiencing tons of misery? This tool seems to be trying to fix things that weren’t broken and not fixing the things that were. It just seems to be inflexible, poorly implemented and just breaks new things and makes even more... — read more 

Is scary how much this article relates to 3M current culture and priorities https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/boeing-planes-problems-stock-price-shareholders.html

I'm upskilling and waiting for a better job market. In the meantime, I'm doing the bare minimum at 3M. No overtime, no weekends, no taking on extra tasks that need to be done right away (I'm always so, so busy)...nothing but what I'm paid to do. I've... — read more 

The Motley Fool discussed the spin off of 3M Medical, including the choice of the name Solventum. Like many, they do not like the name and said the name made them think of chemicals. I would love to know who is responsible for picking this name? I... — read more 

Visiting the Red Wing plant today. They get to tote the upcoming automation. Based on that leaked layoff plan I'd imagine more automation coming to all plants to reduce staff. Anyone know the deets for visit?

I encourage everyone to vote NO to all board members re-election on the form sent to all stockholders. Let's send a message to the Board that they have been seriously negligent in their responsibilities to the shareholders.

Managers are rude and unprofessional (which tells you a lot about who gets promoted, by the way) and they are quick to take credit for the work you did. Not that anybody above them cares. I have never worked for a company that showed as little... — read more 

Does it look to start with this spinoff date?

3M's Notice of Annual Meeting & Proxy Statement has been released, and we learn on page 90 that our beloved Tireman received a 3 (Exceeds Expectations) rating last year to boost his AIP payout to 120% of target, netting him a cool $1.04M check. We... — read more 

It made the news when it was uncovered that Cesena was a pervert. How have they been able to cover up whatever Vale did?

Altering how we work while under an emergency pandemic should be temporary, like the pandemic. No, not at 3M, our strategy is to redefine how we work forever. No need to think this through too hard, I mean what could go wrong? Let’s also redefine how... — read more 

CBG just announced that Wednesdays will be anchor days, when everyone is required to be in the office. How long do you think it'll be before our new CEO insists we all come back every day?

$12.5B for PFAS public water system settlement $6B for Combat Arms Already paid more than $750M in ZW for PFAS issues and that number keeps climbing Massive PFAS liabilities still remain…. Personal injury cases in the MDL, additional NRD cases, the... — read more 

Anybody involved with any innovation lately? How about our Engineering group, any projects in the works? Feels off around the Center, something is surely coming.

With one week to go, what is your guess on how RemainCo share price performance come April1? Let's guess.

I listened to the show John Oliver did on Boeing at the request of my cousin who works there. After watching the show she and I both feel 3M and Boeing have a similar past and are facing similar challenges (except Boeing makes planes and the defects... — read more 

Most of the time I only hear negativity from co-workers, colleagues and headlines when mentioning 3M. It feels like there are always projects or reorgs that never truly help. Has anyone noticed any recent positive changes in their plants or work... — read more 

Seeing several recent postings on LinkedIn about 3Mers recently laid off. Is these recent? In the past week or month? Heard many were let go late last year (Q4) that were apart of the 6500# announced in April. Whats going on? Are the BGs making... — read more 

Any idea who this is? https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2024/03/18/ao-smith-names-new-president.html

Brown wasn’t pulled out of retirement to rebuild what’s left of 3M. Mike will execute on the April reductions and then slither into hiding where he will continue to gain wealth until the turnip that is 3M is finally squeezed dry.

Just curious if this new CEO is going to mandate people to come to the office like other companies are already doing. I know work your way was a MR thing. Sure working from home benefits the employee but given how 3M is doing I don't think it's good... — read more 

Tuesday morning at the same time as the new CEO meeting SIBG leadership met and discussed things. Someone was foolish enough to forward an email follow-up from this meeting which stated We need a 10% year over year TVOS/labor hour improvement... — read more 

I’ve heard rumors that jobs and titles and job grades and market references will be reviewed. Does this happen every year or is this new? I am stilling learning the company, but something doesn’t feel normal right now, or maybe it is and I just... — read more 

Maybe with the new CEO there is finally a bit of hope for 3M? However, he must “clean house” in order to be an effective leader. This will not be easy. He must make sure our Ethics and Compliance team takes complaints seriously. If a manager does... — read more 

Wonder how Mikey feels when the market welcomes his departure as CEO with a stock surge of >10% in 2 days?

Farewell to a grey man in a gray suit with grey ideas. Although possessed of a limited vision, Roman nevertheless lacked the charisma to achieve it. 3M became weaker by many multiples during his tenure- the stock was around 258.00 per share on his... — read more 

Anyone think so?

Everybody knows this ship is sinking. There is zero confidence that management can fix the situation and turn it around. If you're not looking for a new job, you're in the minority.

There goes another one leaving for another opportunity

Any predictions of the 3M parentCo share price on Apr1 closing? Let’s get the guesses rolling.

Should you buy 3M stock - Those charts really su-k. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/is-3m-stock-a-buy/ar-BB1jfKpW?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=07202a4c78c54d9c83b708cc690fd599&ei=50