Thread regarding 3M layoffs

Let it collapse

I do need the job and a paycheck and I want the stock price to rise to eke out every last bit of my LTIP before it gets shut off. I have my children’s education, medical bills, and care for my parents that I need to pay for.

But I also want it all to crumble.

Let the company who laid off half my team and gave me three people’s jobs die. The company that forced me to work weekends and evening to “meet expectations” because every time I bring up my workload to my manager, they tell me it’s all important and needs to get done. I’ve sacrificed my mental and physical health for a company I used to be so proud to work for, and am now just embarrassed. Let this company who keeps promoting leaders with no leadership skills to “manage people” which seems to just mean yell at them. Let it all crumble.

But the executives should reap what they sow—not the employees who backs are breaking under the weight of this management style. Why should BB get millions while the rest of us just keep getting things taken away—the most painful being the culture, the values, and the enjoyment we used to get from an already dead company.

Let it collapse.

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3M is hardly recognizable and it is difficult to see. Has the tide turned on DEI yet?

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Post ID: @e4+1jkp5xnkf

just do what i do, i take four months off every year with mental health issues, i need these months to get back from the torture of working here, i leave in 7 weeks and will retire after over 30 years of service, really only 19 years with my health issues. And yes my last 7 weeks are on the absence leave

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Post ID: @dw+1jkp5xnkf

Peter’s firewall should have been the nail in the coffin for anyone who believes 3M cares about ethics. Absolutely absurd that hiring your son’s consulting firm (to recommend layoffs) passes any type of conflict of interest assessment. If Peter didn’t think there was an issue he wouldn’t have had his son delete his LinkedIn account after the peasants found out. Junior got a nice promotion at Kearney out of it though so everything worked out for the Gibbons clan.

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Post ID: @db+1jkp5xnkf

3M was founded in 1902. For the first 98 years, it was an American icon and legend.

For some d-mb reason, the BOD went offscript and hired the latest fad (GEs mcnerney) and went over to the dark side. Instead of investing for the future with the best research pipeline in the world, Wall Street called the shots and meeting next quarters earnings became the prime directive.

Never work more than 40 hours at this sad place. BB will simply fire your coworker and give you more work. Whilst he lives in a cushy Florida estate and flies into maplewood for a few cameo appearances per month. Meanwhile, a former Starbucks Uber batista is calling the shots at 3M Center whilst someone at Kearney is getting another promotion as daddio lines the pockets, supposedly behind a firewall.

Glad I'm retired and don't have to kiss Tiremans ring at the cafeteria every day.

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Post ID: @cw+1jkp5xnkf

It is a sad decline. When I joined 3M I was full of excitement for my future, to work for a company like 3M. Excitement quickly turned to frustration that every cent of spend needed approval. From there it was doing more with less and the idea of saving money to meet the quarterly results call become the only target that mattered.

From there it was only paying lip service to looking after everyone, my mental health suffered. I managed to get out, not have such a toxic company guiding my direction, my health, my weekends. Appreciate for many it is not that easy. Good luck.

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Post ID: @c0+1jkp5xnkf

Original post is sadly accurate and well stated. Employees have no impact on direction. It’s only moving in one direction. Down. Maybe not today, but the runway is getting shorter each year and it won’t be long before 3M can no longer take flight. I wonder how PG sleeps at night. His hiring, conflicted interests and laughable firewalls have done more longterm damage to 3M brand, pride and culture than PFOS and hearing protection suits IMO. Anyone still turning themselves inside out in order to “perform” is a fool given treatment of employees over the last few years.

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Post ID: @ar+1jkp5xnkf

Workers have the numbers. Bring the collapse and give the rich no place to hide. It’s time!

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Post ID: @a8+1jkp5xnkf

Same could be said for modern society in general, eh !

Do you really want a societal collapse with a family to take care of ???

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