What is happening in psd? Why is everyone leaving?
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Watching the best people leave PSD—whether to other divisions or to other companies—is like watching a great team, and a great legacy, slowly collapse.
It started the moment PSD was brought under ISBG. What followed wasn’t leadership—it was erosion. I hoped KM would return and stabilize the chaos that R (well-meaning but ultimately damaging) brought with him… especially by involving S in the first place—and worse, not taking her with him when he left.
S was never a leader. She’s not a motivator—more like an awkward presence Couldn’t lead a fish to water. Her departure? A step in the right direction, but far too late.
The real tragedy? No one above or below her knows a damn thing about Safety anymore. And bringing in an outsider to “fix” things only made the disconnect worse. That person never had a chance—set up to fail from the start.
She's cleaning house—but not thoughtfully—just replacing bad with familiar. Shielded from real feedback. Surrounded by yes-people. The result? Nothing changes. No fire. No vision. Just new faces repeating old mistakes.
Nobody’s excited. Not really. Not authentically. The future looks painfully familiar—pushed by folks wearing the manager title, with no new ideas. Just tired ones repackaged as innovation.
How many times can we pivot before we spin in place? This isn’t transformation. It’s recycled failure.
Enough with the BS dressed as progress.
PSD has been declining ever since ‘19 when Bernard put the Polish snapping turtle in charge of marketing. She turned a thriving division into the Hunger Games
Psd purge… how dramatic!
How is segment marketing going??? Lmao
Share price is nicely recovering. This is a great sign of things to come (and the mass exit of bo-m bo-m boomers!!). Hallelujah!
Well, we’re coming up on the 2-year anniversary of that foolish decision so Happy Anniversary 3M. You get what you’re willing to pay for which isn’t much these days.
Well obviously too many Sr and Specialists were foolishly fired. Good luck finding qualified replacements.
I am not surprised you don’t understand what Sr and Specialist mean in the job postings.
What job opening are we taking about?
A bunch of entry level trash jobs? Kids straight out of school aren't going to lead us to a new golden age...
Gibbons ki-led the goose that laid the golden eggs for decades when he cut anywhere from half to 80 percent of the MTE roles. In the end, self-proclaimed Saint Peter caused abysmal OTIF and got called out by BB on the conference call.
Too late to hire back these key roles. Tireman, have another gallon of scotch tonight, little man. The woodbury liq-or stores miss your business badly.
What a waste!
Bunch of trolls. Just look at job openings for added people
Well, when Peter Gibbons cut PSD MT from something like 47 to 7 people, it wasn’t a good start to driving more NPI success. Glad I don’t work there anymore. Someone else’s problem now…
Simple. Ray eby put a pie in the sky segment marketing plan together with the rest of the leadership team. He and the whole leadership team bailed and put an id--t vp in charge of the whole thing. When psd realized it was a disaster they promoted the vp instead of putting him on his rear end
Add total lack of npi and an incompetent outside hire, and you got your answer
Isn't this the division with the ill-fated Aearo earplugs. Maybe BB is thinking spinning this off he can try to peal away some liability. Shift the settlement payments to this business. Then it goes into bankruptcy reorganization. Voila! Soldiers have to go to court to get what they thought they had earned.
Surprised BB hasn't plotted this one from his ritzy yacht whilst in Florida.
Ray Eby destroyed the division with his misguided segment marketing strategy that went nowhere. The Lab VP dried up the new product pipeline in PSD and was rewarded with a promotion from his best friend. The senior scientists who had the ideas were chased out of the division. That is the sad story of PSD.
The USA leader is in way over her head. Failing fast
Because only respiratory matters anymore, the rest of the businesses are being put through the blender. Every business except respiratory is a maintain
PSD was always weak with new products. Covid boosted the leaders to become superior leaders without actually delivering new products. Long sales cycle, regulated business and bad leaders left the division not trained to handle business and product development.
PSD is run by chemists, who don’t understand the safety business. They think safety is a transactional business model. It is not, sales can take 6-12 months to happen. In addition, it would help if PSD had product to sell.
If they just make the job toxic enough people will leave on their own and then leadership can look good because the line item for labor is low and they didn't have to lay anyone off to cut costs
Win-win!
Will it be heavy hits, or death by 1000 cuts. Thinking no major announcements, but perhaps lots of small ones to avoid headlines……..
COME ON PEOPLE, the end is nigh with m3, the kickstart will be start q3 july, and by november the heavy hitting will start
It's very toxic.
The top scientist in PSD who left last summer posted something on LinkedIn about the toxic environment in the division.
Have you seen whos running the place?
BB next move will either be to spin PSD or perhaps Consumers Products. He's getting paid to break 3M into five or six 0.5Ms.
His loyalty is to his cronies he's bringing in from outside or to his yacht in Florida.
Goodbye 3M as we knew it.