Out with the Old in with the New - Team Leader 3M Employee Review

2.0
Mar 22, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great friends and former management,

Cons

This company was the best company to work for, my loyalty to the company was great, and the company’s loyalty was the best, this started changing in 2000 and little by little the company was removing the old loyal employees with contact workers, inexperienced new hires, and out sourcing. This was done through Six Sigma, Reclassifying Jobs and hiding behind new bogus company code of conduct rules that didn’t apply to upper management. So long Mr. McKnight principles and so long 34 years at this company, Good luck for the remaining old guard

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