I always assumed my manager would set up an individual meeting to have a personal conversation about losing my job. Setting up a Teams meeting with 30 other people and reading a script is so impersonal and makes me feel like a number. These are horror stories I’ve read that other companies follow, and now our 3M HR team is following them.
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Our direct supervisor wasn't even invited to attend to be present for the people they have managed for however long. Or to even hear what was being offered or said so that they could better support the employees after the meeting. Didn't know when the meeting was being scheduled. Totally kept out of the loop - so maybe they are getting cut next?
I wouldnt call that a revolt. With so few people left, these things happen automatically. No need to boycott. If you you want to revolt, build strong unions.
Thise being let go this week, when is your last day? Is it June 30th or into July?
It is time for employees to revolt and show Wall Street they must force a change since the spineless internal leaders will not. For those recently let go (I am sorry you got treated like garbage), do not help transition your work. Do the opposite: do not share your files, your tips and tricks, etc. Delete or password protect any of your files that is not on a shared folder. if you worked directly with customers, tell them 3M doesn’t care about their service, their back order, their lead times and you have no idea if your work will be covered. if you work directly with Suppliers tell them you won’t be around to help ensure they get paid and tell them you have no idea who or if anyone will take care of your open invoices.
For those not let go, begin stalling on everything. Don’t answer customer calls or emails in a timely manner. Dont schedule the production lines efficiently, bounce around and cause more changeovers and cause higher yield loss. Engineers don’t introduce any new products and for existing lines don’t optimize anything.
Apparently it has to get even worse before it gets better and our only hope now is to pi-s off Wall Street enough that activist investors force a change.
This happened last November when they eliminated the Black Belt and Lean Six Sigma roles. And prior to that when they eliminated the teams doing CX (customer experience work). Not a new process for 3M.
Yes, same happened to me and 11 other high performing salespeople and our manager - laid off via Teams by an HR person from Canada (we are in U.S.) who couldn’t answer a single question, just kept telling us to read the documents that were being emailed.
No attempt or opportunity to move us into other jobs, just one big whack. So disappointing.
3M does not care about its employees, period. I’m glad to be out and on to something better.
Yes this is happening, I was one of 17 people invited to a meeting that had our manager, his manager and an HR rep included. the Sr. manager informed us that our positioning have been eliminated (including our manager), and then the HR went over the packet details. Before the meeting was complete we got an email with the termination details in 8-10 files (generic forms). It was all really unpersonal and quite insulting, as none of us were poor performers (and some poor performers stayed). We did our jobs, but now they are gone cause of the bad leadership and decisions way above us.
I spoke with a former manager before this call and was informed that management got training on how layoffs would roll out. basically If you got a "mandatory meeting" and HR was included you were out, if HR was not included, your job is safe for now However the next day I heard of a mandatory meeting where HR was not on the invite, but they were there on the call, so perhaps that is not the best indicator.
This was in TEBG and took place late April. Like any good breakup it took a few days of pouting, a panic attack at 2AM, and a few nights thinking around a fire pit with a cigar and some wh----y to get over the loss, but then it became time to move on. Today I still miss the old girl, but I think about her less and less each day. Somedays I hope she rebounds (for the sake of my stock), other days I hope she gets hit by a bus.
Where have you all been? The been doing it this was for the past 4-5 weeks? Lol, they’re absolutely reading a script and do not care. Robin Highs ignored my questions, dumped the call and then made light of the cuts in a town hall. Too bad, so sad.
This is unbelievable. An individual email is better than a mass group layoff. This company really has gone downhill fast. How can HR possibly allow this?
Yes absolutely true--happened to people from our group this morning. Layoffs are done as groups of people, not individually. Reason was "otherwise HR would take months to get through all the people individually"--as in be thankful. Yeah, ethics and respect were just buzzwords for these people. Absolutely despicable. Get off this sinking ship.
please tell me this is not happening, you must be mistaken, mm.m is an ethical company who was in the top 30 ethical company's last year
I heard this was done to a legal group last week. People are asking this today.
Yes, just terrible. Shows no empathy.