BB seems to lose money by tearing things down to rebuild them. In 2021, he bought a $7M house on a Florida golf course and demolished it, building a new multi-million dollar home in its place. In the meantime, he bought a $4.1M condo to live in... — read more 

More companies are adopting or considering “peanut butter” pay raises, which are across the board increases given equally to all employees rather than tied to performance. While 48 percent of organizations plan to continue performance based raises... — read more 

We know why. Americans need to write because we're too expensive. Outsource and offshore.

We need real growth, not by pulling ahead to make quarterly figures. Financial Hocus Pocus always ends in tears.

I'm being dragged into a project to help prepare a consultancy to take over a major compliance job. This consultancy has never done a good job in my experience. I'm soooo sure they're going to succeed this time though. Zero percent chance of... — read more 

My manager told me that I didn't get rated a 4 but that he fought for a 3% increase in my AIP payout...which is not even a noticeable difference. But It got me thinking about our rating system. In the past if you got a 4 or 5 you had a multiplier... — read more 

I just got my P4P statement as a JG 14, and the salary range for range minimum, market reference point and range maximum are exactly the same 3 numbers to the dollar between my P4P statements dated 2025 and 2026. Did they freeze the salary ranges or... — read more 

CEO Bill Brown was seen visiting Cottage Grove last week. Still don’t know if that’s a good thing or bad thing

I love it how EHS loves to toot their own ho-n about how AMAZING their training is. $5 everything she put up is straight lies.

Manufacturing PMIs in Europe start expanding and workforce is being cut - great move Wi--y... Who could have thought that a former retiree CEO only has short term interest in the stock price/his options package and a majority external sourced execs... — read more 

What do you expect to happen?

Do our execs nurture innovation in any meaningful way? Do they know how to do it? All I see is folks tweaking KPIs and bragging about success. We lost our core values and we struggle to innovate. I am not even sure if we can recover from this, the... — read more 

We would have needed an 8% increase this year to match how far behind increases are compared to SSA COLA over the last 5 years. If it feels likes like you are making less, it’s because you are. Guess we should all work 5.68% less hours to keep up... — read more 

I feel like there isn’t any real insider knowledge on this page, but let’s give a go. Anyone know what the tour in first week of April will be for? With everything going on, I believe it’s potentially to bring in a new business.

Anybody hear any news on restructuring in the UK?

I guess I thought we would hear something today. If it is decent, I also find that a bit odd given all the layoffs underway this year.

In Legal Affairs this week, 11 people most of whom are in their 50’s and women with pensions. They are outsourcing their jobs to India and hiring a few of them to teach their jobs to and manage their Indian replacements. Of course if you are one of... — read more 

The rumor on the street is that Germany will be hit with a 30% reduction in force. Can someone local or from EMEA confirm?

Any likelihood of Headcount Freeze being lifted any time soon. this is regarding a job on the IT side. Thank you.

Hardly anyone sticks at the same place.

Will be communicated through unions and worker councils depending on local laws. That's what I heard but do not know how the numbers break down.

Details a bit fuzzy on this. And yes, I know, it's a rough year.

It's clear they're either going to gut it or tear it down, it's just a matter of time. Why else would they have only like 3 (above ground) floors in service? It's weird hearing about how some functions don't have desks but we've got 10 empty floors... — read more 

Well actually, I heard BB is only allowing 7% of us to get promoted. In 2024, it was close to 30%. In January 2025, BB told all the managers - you know all those people you decided in December 2024 to promote? Cut that in half. As a result... — read more 

The corporate labs had a reorg and layoff. I heard that there are others let goboutside the lab as well. What other areas had layoffs this year?

What is everyone going to do in 18 months once AI retires us? Golf?

Any good acquisitions being looked at for growth in sales and gathering new innovations? For the right price Solventum could be a good value.

Remember the Pay for Performance statement? Them were the days! You could see well in advance your AIP and the date it was being deposited. At this point so far into February, I am not even sure we are getting AIP this year. And no, trolls, I am not... — read more 

With decisions centralising and more governance and finance leadership coming in, what outcomes have people seen in similar situations — tighter oversight only, portfolio moves, or does this usually end in restructuring and layoffs?

Yet another talented colleague who was hired in the remote-first era has left. They couldn't get promoted without agreeing to move to Minnesota. They were hired in the "Work Your Way is permanent!" era, and were assured during the hiring process that... — read more 

Is anyone else noticing that the recent hires seem totally unprepared? They don't have the skills, they don't seem motivated, and we're spending all our time training them on basics they should already know. Can we get some competent new hires... — read more 

Does anyone have any details on this? There's a formal meeting about it tomorrow evidently.

2 plant closings announced in the past few weeks. What plant will be next?

My take is that Services & Strategy is the most useless area of IT thanks to the SVP that Smurphy hired (surprise surprise). All they have done is introduced a dumpster fire of a process to "manage" demand and a half-baked attempt to prepare for RTO... — read more 

This company is failing. If you have any other options, you should take them immediately. There's no future here.

Still no news of AIP payout quantum? Whats taking them so long to share with the employees?? Hmm.

Anybody else offended by the latest and greatest training. It’s kinda gross! I’m offended.

I'm so tired from doing too much work for no reward that I'd see being cut as a blessing. Bring it on, I say.

Just heard that SIBG went into a hiring freeze in January. Widespread or just SIBG?