3M took the opportunity to use the "muh Covid" Excuse to lay off high salaried, grandfathered pension recipients that were left in their employ. They sprinkled in an admin or 2 to make it look good, but we figured it out. This leaves a bunch of people with no tribal knowledge running the place. They are downward spiraling. Wait for it......
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I noticed a trend in the age of the layoffs. But I also noticed a glut of "management" positions being posted.
Well isn't that the truth. If you want a package, HR is not advertising, but they will give your pension plus severance if you ask. And it will be part if a "lay off." I don't know what legalities it entails. But no need to wait to be put out of your misery!
While us leaders won’t say it out loud, we’ve given up too. Just waiting for the next round of layoffs...
It's as if the leaders have forgotten how to grow a business. Instead of trying new strategies, tactics, go-to-market plans, they just gut the "filler" businesses, no investment with "adjacent" businesses, and go all in on the "core." I'm sure they know the "fillers" make up 15-20% of the revenue, do they think the "core" will make up those losses with no new strategies or new products? Hence zero new growth for past years and many years to come.
thank you , thank you , thank you, for letting me know i am not the only employee feeling these morale sapping answers to 3M. Been 21 years with the company and it is going downhill so fast in certain departments. Masks and the 3m medical dept will be fine for another 20 years but the rest of the division will have big tests over the next 5 years and poor management decisions will close a lot of them
I mentioned wanting to go to HR about my boss for an issue (to a fellow employee), the HR manager then came to me, within a week, out of the blue and said ‘ we want to sit down and talk to each of your employees and see how they feel about working for you’. I suppose that’s their way of sending me a message to not pursue the issue. I didn’t, and still have not heard how the discussions with my employees went. I guess ok, if I’m still here. Fear tactics, bullying and coercion, just what you want in a company that touts about its principles and ethics. The HR person drinks with my manager- how’s that for conflict of interest?
If you browse this board it’s all over. Companies have it down to a science to stay out of trouble.
Insurance, oil, tech, investments, banking. Doesn’t matter it’s like a mandatory 20years employment culling everywhere.
And the generation before us that stayed at one company for 30-40 years in the same role tells us it’s all our fault and we shoulda know it was coming and if we loved hard word and had strong relationships and a good head on our shoulders these things don’t happen........ Said the man who put two kids through college and and purchased a vacation home working for the regional telephone company from 1980 to 2010............. love getting advice from them.
Ah, the new 3M. Treat your employees like dirt but run out and tell everyone else how much you care about the environment and other social causes. A corporate hypocrite if there ever was one.