Thread regarding 3M layoffs

RoamingGypsy: 18 months is a long way off. Depending on your situation, it might be worth it (for your mental wellness and/or even your finances) to abort mission. Not sure what the relo plan is like but sometimes re-payment is pro-rated when one leaves before the required time period. Ex: 50% after 12 months.

Also, it's not unheard of for a hiring company to build a candidate's relocation re-payment into an offer package for someone they're really interested in. Things may have changed in this economy though. An HR professional once told me everything is negotiable, and also if you don't ask, you don't get. Best of luck to you!

Under a relocation repayment agreement. When 2 years is up, about 18 months away, I am out of here. Been here 16 years. Best place I have ever been until about 3 years ago when it went to sh-t.

Hoping for severance package and a few months off

Yep, leaving soon.

Even got my resignation letter ready using ChatGPT.

Pretty funny 3M is even having exit interviews. They can just come to this site and read to their heart's content to know why people are leaving.

As they say, the chickens have come home to roost. Reapeth what thee soweth.

The final death throes of a once great company, now buried under sins of the past like earplugs and PFAS, burdened by the most incompetent management in 3Ms 120 year history are imminent.

What could have been if Desi had been able to choose his successor in 2000 instead of having a Board that fell for the shiny new coin and hired GE (mis)management and forced his hand.

Wherever McNerney is these days, I hope he still has a lot of 3M shares so he can feel the pain he brought down on the masses.

F this place….I’m out!

Resigned not that long ago. Portfolio 2 (baby pension) for the record.

I really hope 3M pulls out of this tailspin and gets back to its proper self. The truth is I don't think it will happen, and if it does it will be well after my working career is over.

As a bonus, the exit interviews with both my HR rep and SVP were an absolute hoot.

HR or SVP: So why are you leaving?
Me: 3M executive leadership is incompetent, I'm going to a place with better leaders.
HR's response: You're not the first person say this recently.
SVP's response: How dare you question the wisdom of 'the plan'! You just don't understand 'the investors'.
Me: I'm literally a shareholder, I wasn't asked or even informed about this 'plan'.

HR: So, what are your new pay and benefits like?
Me: Benefits about the same. I'm taking a few percent pay cut get off this sinking ship. it is so worth it.
HR:

I stay around here to leak whatever helpful information I can and encourage others to find the courage to go somewhere better. My new place is so much better it has really showed me just how utterly toxic 3M has become.

Resigned during my first 1:1 of the year with my boss right after the new year pleasantries. Fantastic feeling!

Last day is January 24th. Grabbing a chair before the music stops

It’s a question of methods.
Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

Just cut costs by axing good people, like me ‼️

I’m of Asian descent, born in China but raised in USA. I consider St. Paul home!

When I was laid off, my Hispanic female supervisor says to me “you forgot your fortune cookie. It says, you’re sh*t out of luck!” No class , not funny. I’d preferred to be let go by a 3rd party HR puppet.

Already retired. Remember the person who showed up a few months ago with a 3M offer as well as other offers and wanted advice as to whether to accept 3Ms offer?

That person got some advice alright with plenty of details as to why 3M is NOT the place to be these days. The person wisely chose to go elsewhere.

It pains a lot of us to say what we say here but this company went over to the dark side when it hired GE McNerney in 2000. It took a while to finally come to this state of self-imposed defeatism.

Given the billions and billions that will need to be forked out to satisfy the communities and veterans, if that's even possible for a company with nearly zero organic growth, the future looks bleak.

This company ended the 20th century in great shape and with happy employees. Now? Shows what the GE PLAGUE does to even the best of employers.

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The lawsuits turning out positively for 3M would be a huge plus, but it wouldn’t help the overarching culture issues and inability to grow organically. It’d relieve 3M of bankruptcy potential and having to pay out buckets of money, but I don’t see it turning the company around.

A lot of folks will be leaving.... just not by their choice! More layoffs coming as long as Monish is around.

I would wait a little longer to see how ear plug and pfas lawsuits come out. I think most agree 3M has changed a lot, and not for the better. It used to be hands down 3M was the best place to work. Now it's a stretch to say it is average. You have options.

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Don't kid yourself. Plenty of those types at JG10-14.

Great people do work here. Talented and people of great integrity. Something happens when a person gets to a job level above say JG15. Then it seems like you have to drink some spiked kool-aid and then spout nontruths and gibberish.

I find it scary to leave, scary to stay.. very unsettling times. I am hoping Q1 provides clearer direction. I used to love to be a 3Mer, proud, too. I really do enjoy my coworkers, 3Mers are people of high value and integrity.

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Just waiting to not have to pay 3M back education money!

Future pensioners here. Waiting for a severance package.

Or at least hope to leave.