If you're planning to quit due to the vaccine mandate, please make sure you have an alternative already lined up. There might be companies that don't require vaccination yet, but even they are hesitant about hiring people who are unwilling to get... — read more
Vaccine Mandate Walk Out
We need to protest like employees of other companies are doing. Right here in Phoenix. Any suggestions on how to arrange this?
Vax cards being reviewed in Mexico
Check your Sine workflows, shows names of people who may have looked at your Vax cards. HON is going cheap and getting HR gals in Mexico to verify these cards. Shows how much the company cares about your data privacy
How does attrition affect you?
Here everyone is talking about attrition and how it can affect the company, but there are very few examples of how it specifically affects your work. Purely out of curiosity, I am interested in what problems have you encountered due to the exodus of... — read more
Which parts of HON are still healthy?
Thoughts!
Big Win: Biden EO On The Ropes
A federal judge for the district court in Washington, DC, issued a temporary restraining order on Thursday barring the Biden administration from firing both unvaccinated civilians and active-duty military... — read more
Let Everyone Know
How many exemptions have actually been approved? If you have or haven't been approved, let everyone here know (yes/no and religious/medical), so we can get a general idea of where Honeywell stands with or against its employees.
Expect Major Layoffs and Reduction in Force
Expect major layoffs coming, as a result of the next few quarters less than favorable expectations and future earnings forecast as outlined to Wall Street and investors in last weeks third quarter results. You can expect upcoming PIP will focus on... — read more
Life will be painful for the vaxxed who remain
Wow, the arrogance of the Aero leadership team! In the Townhall they said they will not re-baseline schedules when the firings are done. That means Mandatory OT and/or missed milestones for all those who remain to take up the slack! Kiss bonuses good... — read more
Biden back-pedaling on vaccine mandate begins.....
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-signals-flexibility-over-dec-8-vaccine-deadline-businesses-2021-10-27/ The Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccination deadline will not require immediate action on the part of employers against... — read more
No vaccine requirement for existing federal contractors
Attention federal contractors facing mandates to keep their jobs -- good news from the Attorney General of Montana: "(President) Biden’s claims in his September 9 speech that federal contractors will be subject to mandatory vaccination requirements... — read more
Block rating season
Its the block rating season again where everyone is given a number depending on your results and behaviors. The old adage of having 5% of a teams population to be rated at an elbow rating as a guideline is where every manager has to put in regardless... — read more
Does CEO and board of directors need to upload vaccine status?
Seriously. Does it apply to high leadership? If they want us all to take the vaccine lets start with the board.
Sine Workflows App Data Privacy Notice
Be aware of the Data Privacy notice you must acknowledge when you submit your vax status. It basically says you no longer have any data privacy and they can send your health data anywhere and to anyone for any "legitimate purpose" which of course... — read more
SINE Workflows App
It’s so convenient that SINE is a Honeywell app that they want us to put our vax information in to. They need to show that Honeywell uses it for compliance to drum up business for all the other companies looking for this type of Orwellian app.. — read more
Hearing significant amount of employees at Aero Olathe Cedar Creek aren’t going to take the vaccine
Any comments to add to this story? If too many techs leave, backlog will not be improving. Priority customers will be slower repairs based on what groups in R&O leave. Not to mention all the OEM and R&O that were already scheduled to retire at the... — read more
How much higher pay did you get in another company?
I started looking for another job a long time ago, not because of the vaccination, but because of the general atmosphere in the company and because I'm underpaid. I'm interested in how much higher pay you got in other companies when you left here... — read more
Vaccinated/Signing bonus
Did they ever move forward with the vaccine incentive prizes they offered a couple months ago? Anyone else irk all the new hires are getting $2,000 sign on bonuses? At least the ones at the Clearwater site are.
ACA Medical Coverage Experience - Early Retires
This topic is for early retirees, or anyone with first hand knowledge, who has used the ACA for medical coverage. I will be retiring early (59) at the end of 2021 and considering the option of either buying a PPO plan through an insurance broker... — read more
Exemption Approval?
Has anyone received, or know of someone who’s received an approval/denial for a filed religious exemption? I’m wondering what the turn around is for a final decision.
Closed meetings ==> layoffs or payoffs?
Phoenix Managers have been holding closed meetings for several weeks. That is never good. Rumors. What is coming? Are they doing another round of retention raises? Then a new voc survey , surprising after the last disaster.
Current management style
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/alden-global-capital-killing-americas-newspapers/620171/
Machine shop supervised by amateurs
honeywell Urbana machine shop supervised by people that know nothing about machining. All they know how to do is pull out there stopwatch and calculator and tell employees they're not producing enough parts. Never mind the worn out old machines and... — read more
HR gives me 80 percent diversity candidates when I usually get 10 percent.
You tell me? Is HR systematically refusing to accept resumes based on race? Yuuup. It is illegal for an employer to discriminate against a job applicant because of his or her race, color, religion, s-x (including gender identity, se-ual... — read more
In Q3 Earnings Presentation, Honeywell shows they targeted non-minorities for layoffs.
On page 9 of the Q3 earnings presentation, Honeywell shows the "% of Ethnically / Racially Diverse in US Workforce" went from 29.4% in 2019 to 33.4% in 2020. So they are openly admitting they targeted non-minority US employees for the layoffs in... — read more
Keep your options open
I moved to a different industry a few months ago and while the work has it’s challenges it is definitely less stressful. I’m not constantly wondering when the axe will fall or taking on additional responsibilities without being compensated for it... — read more
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
My former boss, about 3 years ago, went from being a decent guy to being a complete monster. Was it just him cracking under the stress, or this required of all management now? Glad to be retired.
Spread the word!!!
Spread the word to call off next week in protest to vaccines... There is power in numbers, the more people that join, the more money they lose, the quicker they will change their minds
What will be the "Reasonable Accommodation" for the Exempt?
Many of my co-workers seem pretty confident they will be working here in December without the Jab due to their religious beliefs based on fetal cell research. I'm beginning to think Honeywell will approve all religious exemptions but all of these... — read more
New employee survey
What will you say? Did all that the automation improve your life? ( maybe that is why the covid app is late) Did accelerator videos fire you up about Honeywell? How did Darius do interpreting the feedback?
Said goodbye to ten engineers this week. Where are the managers ?
All told me they found better paying jobs with more interesting work. Key people on critical customer funded programs. can't fill their shoes. don't know what they knew. can't relocate. Feeling pretty low. Manager has been unreachable all week. ... — read more
VAX bonus if you get the jab
Heard from good source ALT authorized bonuses to drive up vax rate.
Why Does Honeywell Employ Doctors
I have to wonder why Honeywell even has doctors on staff if all they do is parrot the CDC. Shouldn't the point of having your own medical staff be to evaluate ALL of the studies and data and draw their own conclusions? And haven't they seen by now... — read more
Revolution!!
CALL OUT SICK ALL WEEK!!!!! Don't want the vaccine? Make them change the rules! How? Hit them where it hurts, their wallet. Don't let them hit their monthly revenue goals, everyone call out sick everyday the last week of the month! (10/25-10/29)... — read more
If you’re young enough to work here, you’re young enough to run from here
Give it a few years and by the time you’ve gained the experience that you need to move on, you shouldn’t be walking out the door - you should be running. Long time employees know that unless you’ve got the connections (even that is iffy) it’s just a... — read more
Please Explain the upcoming App
"Employees will upload their proof of vaccination through a secure app." Does anyone know anything about this app that's coming? In all honesty, the app is the biggest concern that I have. Some are saying the app will be used for contact tracing in... — read more
Mandate, contracts
I pulled someone's question from one of the threads below because it interests me as well: what would happen if Honeywell didn't comply with the mandate, that is, how many existing and future contracts would be lost?
Honeywell Engineers
Is it correct to assume that India now has the most Honeywell Aerospace engineers ?
OSHA recommends test from home for exempt employees
Huge win for employees getting exemption. Many companies are saying self-certification or home tests are all that is needed for test reporting after Dec. HON will likely put in something to overrule this and make life miserable