How is the "new & improved" rating process going for my fellow managers? Nothing like robbing Peter to pay Paul. How is this not a process filled with managers playing favorites? It is the most subjective process ever, and the end result will be a... — read more 

Has anyone actually heard from leadership (your boss, VPs, Presidents, etc) about the VoE survey at all? They published a high-level review of the results and promised to talk about it with us, and here we are months later without a single word... — read more 

Did anybody realize last week's layoffs were coming? For me, it completely came out of the blue. Now I'm even more nervous that it can happen any day without warning, and it's not helping my mental health at all.

Town hall this morning announced that we're going to combine IBO and the GSCs, and that we will eliminate some redundancies. Buckle up, it's time for another round of musical chairs aboard the RMS Titanic.

The fanatical obsession with meeting next quarter's numbers to mollify Wall Street is diametrically opposed to being a strong innovation company. The linkage between end customers and CRL and Divisions was very strong for decades. It covered all... — read more 

After the most recent planning town hall, I’ve never felt more unmotivated working for 3M. SVP of planning is woefully under-qualified to be leading this global organization. The future is NOT bright at 3M with him in charge.

Hearing Friday will be some layoffs. Anyone else?

Learning about AI cameras from VIVA Engage. Does your plant have them? What do they do?

3M has been one of the biggest examples of nepotism and favoritism in terms of career growth i have ever seen. How many cases are there of a vp’s nephew getting regular promotions or an execs son or family member becoming a vp? Too many to count!

Hopefully to lighten the mood for some this evening while they enjoy an IPA or wine (or even scotch, Peter since we know you come back here often). The record Halloween blizzard hit Minnesota inundating Twin Cities and Duluth both over 2 feet of... — read more 

I've been at 3M for a little over a year now. I work in division but I came from a very technical background so I do some of the work that CRSL people do. However, I do not have a PhD and in some of my interactions, I distinctly feel that some of... — read more 

Decatur employees were notified that the Chemical plant there is closing. Think this is about 300-400 jobs impacted. Between Cordova and Decatur there was a lot of extra capacity with PFAS going away

It’s been a few months since the last one and the holidays are coming. Wait they did shake up a few of the incompetent last week!

I'm sure many on here are mad about the way BB is managing the company. I am a former exec, retired on good terms after VP/GM of quite a few businesses in all business segments. Obviously external perspective he is doing things well, as proven by... — read more 

This guy is the best CEO since McKnight. 3M is humming along under his brilliant leadership. Huge earnings. Morale higher than ever. Lazy people are leaving. What's not to love here. Now get back to work you quiet quitting clowns.

anyone know anything on the the company’s side of this contract? “Last & Final” was just voted down.

Any word on if she was pushed out? I am assuming so based on the four sub groups now reporting to other people, and no mention of backfilling

No new ideas so let's just keep flip-doing back and forth on things that don't matter. I'm sure there are gonna be a bunch of 2s given out, though, to send the message that Bill Brown thinks you su-k but we're not ready to fire you just yet.

I’ve noticed how 3M is moving more into high-tech areas like advanced materials, semiconductors, and healthcare innovation. It makes me wonder if some of our older divisions are starting to lose relevance. From my point of view, a few areas that... — read more 

Retiree here. 30+ years in the mines. They told me my medical benefit credits would have some inflation indexation. But the competitive benefit landscape doesn’t include that, so… it’s gone! Thanks 3M! I wonder if the C-suite guys ever lose any of... — read more 

His plan is revealed... https://seekingalpha.com/news/4501768-3m-evaluating-selling-billions-of-assets-in-industrials-business---report

It’s here just to push out as many people as possible on the cheap. If I’m wrong, convince me otherwise. Give me one example of RTO actually improving collaboration, efficiency, morale, productivity, anything, really. All I’ve gained is more time... — read more 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/3m-company-mmm-targets-25-margin-expansion-launches-1-000-new-products-by-2028/ar-AA1NtvBY?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds

Question for the folks that are in the factories. Are you guys leadership team dysfunctional or is it just ours. Seems the left hand don’t or won’t talk to the right hand. Nobody knows what’s going on. Always running out of things. Just curious if... — read more 

Fascinating read touching on Polaris, Advance 3M, and other poor decision making: https://archive.ph/1w3Rs “Effectively, 3M became ‘a case study of everything not to do over a very long period of time’…”

Stupid idea in the first place. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce84e4egp38o

Who is really running things there? Why has neither HR or ethics and compliance team taken any action?

Why do they stop publishing the quarterly AIP estimates? Anyway they report quarterly earnings to Wall Street. Any reason for not telling its employees on quarterly basis AIP?

Why are SVPs and VPs demanding for bigger and bolder targets for 2026? So that they can get their bigger bonus and LTI options?

Various rumors that he has resurfaced but not in mn - has anyone heard about the new gig

Anyone else been witness to a bunch of shenanigans to pull sales forward into September to make Q3 numbers look good?

The office has become a shell. For those who have returned, it feels like working in a morgue — silence, no collaboration, no energy. At least at home people could put the radio on and feel some life around them. We tried free coffee for a week, but... — read more 

I don’t need to see the survey results, I want to see the actions and outcomes. It’s the same burnt out feedback as prior years but with less passion… so what’s the point? “Improve culture” and “improve moral” without improving (or even addressing)... — read more 

The culture is exhausting, to put it mildly, and priorities shift daily. Not to mention that it feels like no one actually cares if you succeed or just survive, as long as you keep doing more and more and even more. I can't find one good thing to say... — read more 

With Honeyman gone, some 3Mer's might be interested in the honeyman position. 3M leadership will go outside of 3M because 3Mers are viewed as incompetent, good worker bees but not leadership material. The longer you are at 3M, the less likely you... — read more 

RTO either has a lot of no shows, or 3M cut that many! Hearing some avoiding RTO because boss and co-workers are in other states or countries, so why RTO? For those that are in office, most are just on calls with global employees anyways. It makes... — read more 

Flimflam took his two favorites on the most brazen boondoggle to the uk to attend his daughter’s wedding. On 3M’s money!! Yes that just happened. His most favorite was stupid enough to paste it all over viva (now deleted) ironically the comments are... — read more 

Just wow. Speaks volumes about this company

Is it anonymous?