Q&A With Honda Employees

Medium. 20% of the people (the contractors) do 80% of the work. The associates are busy in meetings 80% of the time . Avooid them and try to fly below the radar as much as possible.

Hierarchichal and very stressful. Associates have job security and they treat the 2 lower levels as disposable. Below Associate is Contingent - Contingent is disposable and has a lifespan of less than 2 years (no matter what your contract says) - then comes level 3 which is the temporary contractor who is treated like an untouchable. You don;t speak to an associate or look them in the eyes or your company will be pushed off site and possibly loose the whole contract because of you. You will be fired if you so much as look at an associate and credit for your work will be taken by someone higher up in the food chain. Good thing though you will get credit if their is some blame needed to be issued. Then the blame will go 100% to you. Sometime as a contractor you will be invited into an unknowing meeting, not related to you , so that you can take a blame when it is needed to be passed.

The amazing opportunity to do what I do in their environment. I can do this at a lot of companies , but getting it done at honda allows me to do my passion and know that one day I as a contingent will get disposed of like all the others on a whim. Regardless of how well I've preformed or how loyal that I've been. After seeing so many people at all levels 5 , 10 and 15 years as contractors thrown away without having done any screw ups or major/minor mistakes ; i know I will one day be discarded also.

If you are an associate it's great! If you are a contingent there is none. You don't work, you don't get paid. They are putting in a card reader to track contingent workers visits to the bathroom and how long they are in their daily. Obviously you don't want to abuse paid time. They used to allow you bathroom time and time to chaange into the forced uniform. Currently they have moved the time clocks to make sure you dress in the uniforms on your own time and take bathroom breaks on your own time. As of yet nothing says what allowable bathroom time perday will be. It's up to the managers discretion, but grapevine says you will get less than 3 minutes per day average total per week before automatic dismissal. (Only for contingents) Associates have all the privileges they need.

Make the company hire more permananet associates and stop abusing the consultant/contractor/contingent policy's. They have permanent positions which are filled over and over as contractors to avoid paying legal benefits and to get away with forcing people to be treated awefully with a hope of possibly being the one to get the "non-existent" Full time asscoiate position.

r&d has 1/3 Indian, 1/3 Asian and 1/3 B/W american staff . It's a great place for cultural diversity and they are very PC when it comes to treating all associates equal and all contractors like disposable comodities that know they will be cut loose on a whim. The big joke is the contractor that thought he/she have value for 5 , 10 or even 15 years loyalty and then on a dime was cut loose . They love to dump people when they least expect it and have the consulting company in the middle do their dirty work . That way their conscience is clean, but they can have the fun of giving the person the unexpected Ax all at the same time. It's the only place that I've ever seen the staff say "we hate turnover" and then force 15 people departments to get fired with in a 2 year period over and over and over again. Most people in Ohio know to avoid it. Thats why so many workers move in from out of state.

They don't. Over the last 4 years most employees were asked to take pay cuts. It's makes the associates work twice as hard to make the better paid contractors to feel and be disposable so they can justify that job security of taking a pay decrease.

GIVE UP THE POLITICS; THINK BIG PICTURE

LIMITED ADVANCEMENT POTENTIAL

ENGINEERING SILO MENTALITY; NOT WILLING TO OPEN THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE COMPANY; PENNY WISE, DOLLAR FOOLISH