A place to vent and share the decisions by management you have seen or heard about.
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The Alix Partners folks are a joke.I hope those that hired them have to answer for that decision.
It is likely that by the end of 2025 RA will fall out of the Fortune 500 (S&P500) club.
Because the Engineering groups are understaffed there is no one available to investigate problems effectively, much less create a solution. And if there is a solution, it will take 6 months to a year to implement (if you're lucky) because they want to use up the bad parts rather than eat the costs of scrapping the bad parts. So in the meantime, we give the customers replacements with the questionable parts and cross our fingers that the replacement doesn't have the same problem.
What role does Alix Partners have in deciding “who” gets Rifd? Do they have a real process or is this like a sad real world combination of the “strategy consultants” from office space and up in the air?
Seems like there is no rhyme or reason to people impacted other than cost and legal ease to layoff. It’s not about past or current performance - let’s cut cost from these departments because they are “cost centers” and if we eliminate this combination of employee ids we’ll meet our short term goal on paper.
Getting laid off over a teams meeting that was scheduled by your manager with a title implying a typical business purpose is a new low.
Don’t confuse ethics as a term that applies to how people are treated by the company - it only applies to legal matters and limiting the company’s liability. It’s not illegal to lie or deceive if it doesn’t break a law and creat liability. Therefore telling employees “we are done” and continuing to cut is a completely ethical practice as demonstrated by one of the world’s most ethical companies….
If ROK treats their own employees this way, how do they treat their customers and business partners?
Somehow i cannot shake off the feeling that some of the key decison makers are on the competitors’ payroll.
The woke and DEI intiatives probably sponsored from someone outside to help further erode the American industrial/economic dominance.
Don’t get me started on Alix Partners.
It's nice to see Rockwell leadership (was that you Veena?) prioritized the Plex and Fiix acquisitions over keeping long time Rockwell people (sorry "resources") with institutional knowledge. That seems to be working well for them.
How about hiring someone that was run out of RA as a Quality Manager, got run out of Milwaukee Tool, got run out of Johnson Controls, then gets rehired by RA as Quality Director and his biggest accomplishment to date is reducing the headcount of the Quality department by 50%.