when everyone is either secretly hoping to get laid off or scrambling to find any replacement?
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I remember part of the DEI, we had to interview random degrees, think liberal arts majors, for software engineering. The best part was during the HR meeting after. In an upset voice an HR person asked: "Why don't you want this candidate?!?"
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"Because he has never coded before."
Like many from Clifton, I started my career when it was ITT. But when activist fund managers infiltrated the board of directors, the decision was made to spin off the defense business to create instant money for investors and casting off $804 million in pension debt. The spun off company, Exelis, would be set adrift with the entire debt for BOTH companies. But Exelis succeeded and became a valuable company. Harris came along and purchased Exelis for $4.6 billion. Another win for investors while employees of the newly formed company saw a drastic increase in health insurance premiums and reduced coverage. Salaries were also reduced. When L3 and Harris merged, things continued to get worse. Introduce wokeness and DEI in 2020 and the company's death spiral was irreversible. Qualified, experience people were either driven off or laid off in exchange for a less skilled but more "diverse" workforce. Quality escapes became more frequent and morale disintegrated under heavy handed overreach from Melbourne. Proven methodologies were replaced with counter-intuitive nonsense from inexperienced fresh-outs hired as managers by Melbourne. During the two-year period from 2020 to 2022, Clifton saw no less than 7 "value stream managers" come and go in operations. Each one leaving behind their own wreckage of failed ideas.
The "organization" is now a toxic, dysfunctional place where the only way corporate can feed these insatiable investors is to reduce the workforce whenever money is needed.
If you're considering an offer, ignore it and keep looking. If you're near retirement, count the days. If you have a way out, even for a temporary cut in pay, take it. If you're retired from, or have been laid off from this company, you may have received offers to come back. Don't take them. In your absence, the place has only gotten worse. If you're stupid enough to go back, you'll regret it the very first day.
It's been a sh---y company since the last merger .
It really seems like it depends on where you are working. My site isn't bad, morale is not the highest due to subpar benefits and the ever present RIFs whenever Kube needs a hot cash injection for whatever the 1% spends it on.
I'm staying a while but hold no loyalty other than to myself, family and country. L3Harris would have to care more (read: pay more) for rave reviews.
Sad Company!
Not everyone.
SAD!