I am coming up on nearly 30 years with this company. It used to be great, the first five years were good, learning new skills and being offered courses for advancement and monthly chats with a personnel officer. The next 25 years were just a hump on my back, the withdrawal of 90% of the good things that made this company tick, present day shop floor is totally unrecognizable, sorry I don't want to put down all the problems because you would not care, but just hope the present day employees new and old can turn it around, hopefully the litigation results are not too bad come October
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Reposting a shocking post:
The old white man in legal affairs took renee Dotson and Shauna Macdougal on the most brazen boondoggle to the uk to attend his daughter’s wedding. On 3M’s money!! Yes that just happened. Renee was stupid enough to paste it all over viva (now deleted) ironically the comments are still there. Look for posts on July 16. She also has another gushing post worth seeing…
I’d say more American psycho…
It used to be such a fantastic company! 3M's reputation as a great place to work was well justified back in the day, and that's why people wanted to work there and why so many smart and talented people stayed.
Sadly those days are gone and never will return. The best and brightest have left or wouldn't join in the first place now. Employees today would be foolish to see a 3M job as anything more then a stepping stone to somewhere else. There are no incentives to keep people long term, no financial reasons, no personal professional development reasons, no future payoff reasons.
And here we have another specimen of the 30 years or more doing their daily cry for help… eat a few cheese curds.
There are two versions of 3M. The pre-mcnerney days. Prior to 2001. The company was an amazing innovation powerhouse. High morale. Consistently in the top 100 best places to work in the 80s and 90s. Lots of company sponsored events at Tartan. Then mcnerney brings in the GE plague. Emphasis shifts from employees to Wall Street and meeting increasingly ridiculous quarterly earnings targets. Jobs are slashed. HR turns into a Frankenstein. Morale plummets. Research is slashed. The company will never be the same. Now BB is preparing a massive break-up that will full frontal lobotomy to the soon-to-be dismembered 3M. A sad ending to a 20th century American icon.
2010-2015 was certainly better than 2015 to the present has been.
Answer: for me a dream the fist 15 years and nightmare the last 25 years. Once you have 5 or 10 years, you are trapped. If you are currently living the nightmare, just power through.
What they knew, when they knew it
A key problem in any 3M defense: Despite the flurry of recent legal, regulatory and political activity, the chemicals’ dangers have been known — and known to 3M — for decades.
As early as the 1950s, 3M and DuPont scientists began discovering that the chemicals were accumulating in the bodies of humans and animals.
After compiling 27 million pages of documents and deposing about 200 witnesses in seven years, Minnesota’s former attorney general, Swanson, didn’t just walk away after settling with 3M. She released thousands of internal 3M documents. These documents are public and you can read what 3M knew and what they did.
It would takes you years to read all the evidence against 3M. 3M continues to gaslight customers, regulators, media, employees, and themselves.
https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Cases/3M/StatesExhibits.asp
October litigation will be bad. 3M's own documentation proves we knew. 3M knew PFAS was hazardous. 3M tested the new material and it unalived fish. PFAS was selling so well, 3M changed the label to remove the word "hazardous". This happened in the 1950's and the story gets worse from there.