I'm planning to leave not just the company but the entire industry. If I get the chance to volunteer for layoffs, I'll gladly take it. Receiving severance for something I already plan to do in the next six months would be fantastic. And if it helps save someone else's job, even better!
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Blaming dei, or older workers or,…. Is stupid. This is all Blake’s incompetence. He and his new band of id--ts have done nothing. I have been gone 3 years and it steadily declines. Leave before you are dismissed. Only sycophants will survive until an activist investor arrives
Wait until Honeywell buys Rockwell
And fires all VPs and above. The final decline will be epic!
I was laid off from the Cambridge plant on Wednesday. Decent severance package. Cant complain too much.
My observation is that there are too many incompetent people managers, with very limited business, operations, product, and market knowledge making decisions!
They are practically not SME in any technical or business area. They are dettached from their teams and rely on a few PowerBi pages (with preselected filters), an excel spreadsheet,to report back data up the chain.
At least one level/rank of people managers can be removed without any disruption to business or customer experience.
Let me volunteer to be laid-off. Says someone who probably isn't pulling their own weight. Good riddance
You Can Easily Judge the Character of a Man by How He Treats Those Who Can Do Nothing for Him
I snapped my wishbone on the turkey. Are Blake and Becky still employed at Rockwell???? Da---t!
"So when somebody was trying to lure them away, it was typically a company that we knew well that was down the street. Today, with geography not being as much of a constraint. we can have a software developer who sits in Milwaukee working for Amazon."
Ummm.. Then why did you go to hybrid 3 days/wk instead of keeping remote if you are trying to stay competitive? Blake you big dummy!
Recent Blake feedback
So many companies are experiencing employee shortages. How do you attract employees, and what’s your secret to maintaining enough workforce?
We’re certainly not immune to the kinds of fluctuations that happen with workforce but I think that we’re winning more than we are losing. The first is the basics. You’ve got to have a competitive package of wages and benefits, and we have made a lot of investments in the last couple of years because in the past, we were typically dealing in more of a regional market. The vast majority of our employees were in Wisconsin and were in Ohio, and liked living in those places. So when somebody was trying to lure them away, it was typically a company that we knew well that was down the street. Today, with geography not being as much of a constraint. we can have a software developer who sits in Milwaukee working for Amazon. Who knows where that person’s boss sits. So we needed to make a change in terms of looking at our company that recognized that it wasn’t just the market reference points that HR used. We had to recognize that talent in hard to find jobs, we were gonna have to do more to make sure we were offering an acceptable experience. Other things like additional benefits, and more time off and vacation. Time off for volunteering and not stipulating where that person can volunteer. That all connects to the purpose of Rockwell and I think particularly for younger employees that we recognize have strong skills and are very mobile in terms of their jobs, connecting the purpose of Rockwell and what we do to help feed and clothe and keep the world safe is an important message. People care a lot more about culture now and we are an organization that is trying to create an environment where people can and want to do the best work. It’s not just about being able to do the best work, but you WANT to do the best work. Most of us in our careers have been in situations where we weren’t as highly motivated, whether it was with a boss that we didn’t like or a job where our heart wasn’t into it for whatever reason. So we say this is what we are trying to get done in terms of earning the longevity of the employees at our company.
Then he lays off 12% of the workforce. But not Scotty g???
Think about this in the holiday season. Blake and his leadership team of id--ts have dismissed the prior leadership. Later off 12% of the workforce this year and he still acts like he is competent. Hope he meets a quick demise. He deserves it. Poor workers are trying to figure out next move to put food on the table. Blake is now a typical id--t who leads a company down the drain. Next step-Honeywell purchase
Finding the job (career type job) if you are over 50 years of age is extremely extremely difficult! Sadly.
If you over 50+ and can stay up until you are eligible to retire, please do so!
What industry are you going to? Do you see a problem with industrial automation?