Gone are the days when someone got their foot in the door they would ultimately retire from 3M. Under current CEO, a new tradition has emerged of yearly reorganizing to drive growth and results. The continual revolving door of knowledgable, experienced employees who helped build this once great company to only be replaced by outsiders has created a constant edge of your seat experience to see if we have jobs after yet another round of restructuring. Over the last 5 years there’s only been one constant, top leadership. What are they not getting right year after year that causes the rest of the employees to play a game of survivor. There is little to no trust in top leadership of this once great company, and reaching retirement has become a fairy tail dream.
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I heard the E2E SVP Service ops and LSS got cut
The most common quote heard in middle management offices this week "if you weren't my son, I'd fire you!!!"
I think the APAC EO SVP looks likely to be axed soon.
The EMEA EO SVP gets a new role fortunately
The USAC EO SVP probably knew about this, and she resigned and found a job externally.
Which VPs hot axed today?
Several VPs had their torches extinguished today.
Roman and Patolawala are reprobates and should be expunged from 3M post-haste.
The reality is that the survivor mindset starts with this in LG15 and up who most show they can cut employees just as fast and as well as the other middle managers.
Those in lower grades are really just tokens that middle managers will give up to stay on their cushy seat with those stock options.
The people writing about quiet firing are spot on. This is happening and will continue to get worse as the economy finally tightens after a few more interest rate jumps.
Good luck to all who are left.
This company is sick. The reorg needs to be at the COC level.
Quote heard recently from a 20+ year employee: "3M was a company I originally planned to retire from. Now I just hope to survive." So Sad.
To show growth and results? This person needs a random test!
Good game show concept, entertaining and full of social insight on how people behave in that environment. Are you suggesting we should contact Jeff Probst and let him film "3M Survivor" as a resume stream for the company?