Anyone hear anything about plant layoffs? Seems like tomorrow is the day for some places... Really stressing.
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Which groups in St. Paul? Are you meaning EO or LVS positions...?
Lay-offs have already started in St. Paul. So it is not just the manufacturing sites. Stop spewing lies unless you know the truth. Although manufacturing sites will feel a majority of the reductions, 3M Campus is also being affected.
10~15% EO Mfg team to go. To depart By end Mar.
Friends who were impacted please give more details
They took my jerb! My jerb!
Layoff city for me.
Wow.
what’s next?
3M is dying...
The obsessive focus on documention issues (scribbles, minor omissions, signature legibility) is an opportunity cost away from real kqc's. This can. be verified by running a PowerBI report on the appropriate metric which will show documentation remains number one finding. This is not meant to be a gripe or point fingers, it is simply true when you spend limited resources on minor issues. are more customer product expectations be missed?
I have worked for 3M for more than 20 years, and i must say this is the most depressing time and lowest employee morale ever. It is much worse than the 2008 GFC time when people were laid off. It is really bad morale and no one seem to care about work anymore. Just hope that our products continue to be good quality out of the factories.
We lost entire China data team. Now there is no one to update on China production data on Global 3M M&SC.
i was going through the 2022 performance reviews with my team. and one of most frequent asked questions was whether they will be part of the 2,500 being laid off. such a depressed feeling.
It is manufacturing jobs this quarter, but MR and a few of his Group Presidents have made it VERY clear that more cuts are coming this year. With more and more companies laying off employees this year, MR probably feels like he can accelerate his cornerstone playbook strategy, which of course is layoffs. Let’s face it, with all of his swings and misses - A3M, legal strategy, etc. and his inability to drive organic growth, what choice does he have? The only constant since 2019 is layoffs and that’s really the only trigger he has to help manage earnings at this point. The best solution would be for him to admit to himself that he’s not up to the job and step down. Ego and a passive board will not allow that to happen.
Tireman is fuming while reading this thread. Too early in the morning for your first scotch?
This comes as no surprise Atherstone as I hear been winding down for years
I can agree to the point on Area teams. Keeps asking data from plants, but don't provide any value add. Truly waste of resources.
The plants are already Lean as he-l with many staff, backfilling 3 additional roles besides primary jobs and titles. Very short sighted. All of the bloated levels of non value added roles are Area and corporate because they add levels of bureaucracy, and cost. Makes zero sense that, they COC are cutting only manufacturing plant personnel, when all of the Regional, corporate Area Directors, managers, M&SC and demand planners, and transportation are at much higher salary's, provide lousy customer service, poor forecast, old data, un-verified demand, and bring in way more inventory and packaging than is necessary. Blowing way too much cash and freight spend on the merry go round between sites just to justify the role. That and the bloated SAP roll out teams that sole purpose is to drag out the process so they can hold onto their precious work roles, travel, avoid work, instead of providing working software and value, just more bloat, instead of any labor savings. This company is so doomed. So much stupidity.
How many plants will this effect? Is it everyone?
It was confirmed today at corporate that ALL 2500 will come from plants. 0 will come from St. Paul corporate manufacturing support. It will be a mix of production and non-production employees. All of the plants have their numbers, so they are working on who it will be. No timing on announcements confirmed. Also, this is just the beginning; expect more cuts next quarter. The company is in bad shape said a person in a higher leadership position, but we all know that.
Anyone knows why they are still keeping an area team, whereby they are moving to global?
Complete joke that they lay off plant people when you still see the bloated A3M structure. Do we really need this many middle managers in St. Paul?
what we heard is - Not only involve Plants, but those regional M&SC folks were affected as well. Last day 31-Mar.