Thread regarding 3M layoffs

@3hh

Straight to racism, is it? Keep racing to that bottom.

We'd be better off if you bigots were the ones to "shoo".

Svp r&d cbg is on limited time. When the npis don’t materialize, she will blame everyone. Hopefully this time management will see thru the bs… she is very typical Lebanese American. Zero work ethic and pretending the weight of the world is on their shoulders. Shoo

Look at the positive - you can get to meet the SVP of R&D for CBG! She will enlighten you by saying every random corporate buzzword!

@24e I write the AI for the robots that we've been using to replace mindless line workers.

Save the company millions, and I can do it from anywhere.

Sorry you were stupid enough to think this was permanent and moved too far away for an easy commute. I bet you're some insufferable person in purchasing or some other position that requires no special skills whatsoever

@21e no, you slackers who all believed the covid nonsense need to get back to work now. You people barely do anything as it is, and since your cushy job wouldn't exist without actual workers, we should get paid extra to cover commuting expenses, since no one could have foreseen a world where anyone "not needing to touch a machine" would suddenly not have to commute. I do enjoy the roads without you mindless office people clogging them up though...imagine the only tangible output of your work is a PowerPoint that will get looked at once then forgotten forever...

@20p So what?

You're butthurt because you choose the type of career that requires you to be physically touching machines.

If you want to work remotely you'll need to learn a new skill set.

@ev because we never got any extra money to keep coming in, while the rest of you got to save on gas a vehicle maintenance. On top of that, you all got a little internet allowance, we were told we'd be fired for trying to get that same allowance, even though we all worked from home Occasionally. So we have ZERO sympathy for the work from home crowd.

@et : "Work your way was never designed to be permanent"

I'm not going to engage in the vitriol that others have chosen to use, but this statement in factually incorrect. It may have come about because of Covid, but when WYW was announced, it was definitely presented as a permanent change, just as the way we would work from that point onward. 3M even had articles in major newspapers as recently as last year that were touting the company's permanent adoption of remote work, and the benefits that provided them. (And yes, those articles have now aged about as well as you might imagine.)

Whether they should have presented it as a permanent change is maybe up for debate, as we now see that these things are only as "permanent" as the current CEO's whims. But it definitely was presented as permanent at the time, so it's certainly understandable why people are feeling betrayed now that it's being revoked.

Wasnt supposed to be permanent? They let everyone move away and hired global roles from other countries! Sorry you make cr-p money working at the plant, loser!!

For the people who never worked from home, why do you give a sh-t? This has nothing to do with you.

Nice “If I don’t get a perk, no one should!” attitude.

Work your way was never designed to be permanent sorry to burst your bubbles. It was only implemented because of COVID and be grateful y'all had 5 years of it. Welcome back to the office time to stop the entitlement.

Sincerely,
People that never worked from home the whole pandemic

@dz 7am meetings are a new thing starting during Covid, easy to do WFH, no one’s leaving home at 6am for these. Teams are more Global than ever which means night time meetings with Asia. All more doable with WFH. If RTO then move back to normal working hours without expectation for these ridiculous meeting times. Can’t have it both ways.

Start at 8 am leave at 5 pm? People in st paul are in the office from 9 to 3 plus lunch. Gimme a break!

With everyone forced back to the offices where are we supposed to work? There are no cubicles and no offices to go around. Are we supposed to sit on those weird couches and have meetings? Who has to go back to the ugly buildings? Are they turning the heat back on at least?

If the aim was to ki-l morale and drive talent out the door, mission accomplished.

Yep, that's exactly it. That is the goal.

Layoffs look bad and drive share price down.

Voluntary attrition is fine, and reduces headcount.

Implementing unpopular policies services out the people with other options, who tend to be more senior and therefore more expensive.

It's a win for Bill.

BB is trying a psyops tactic to get people to bark about losing WYW and leave without a severance.

Sorry Billy but put your money where your mouth is and pay up if you want people to leave.

Remember quiet quitting will make your boss look bad. If your boss is aligned to the psyops, then it's only fitting he or she get immense heat for supporting this charade.

Start at 8 am. End at 5 pm. Take a full hour or more for lunch. And absolutely no work off hours or weekends. They can't fire everyone.

If BB loves Minnesota Nasty so much, then give it back to him in spades. His head will explode on his yacht in Florida when he's not getting the performance results he demands.