The Philips Take Over Turned This Place Into a Joke
Pros
Philips gave a toothbrush when they bought us…. Your coworkers become family, benefits aren’t too terrible.
Cons
The Philips takeover made this place a joke. Philips bought us to try to improve their revenue after their CPAP machine recall. Philips promised us raises, bonuses, and so many things that couldn’t follow through with. Our department didn’t even get close to a 3% raise this year and just got an excuse from Philips about how hard it is for them to tell us we weren’t getting bonuses because they did so terribly financially again. Bosses told us to be lucky we were part of the 10,000 people Philips had to lay off. At the start of 2023, they forced us to start coming in 3 days a week. Last week we were told about about a work from home incentive based on the amount of overtime we do, this week they took our overtime away basically. We’ve been begging for raises for over a year now since most of us are ending up in the negative by the end of the pay period due to inflation. Philips is trying to change all of our processes to match their agenda, but clearly they aren’t seeing that their processes don’t work. It’s just doubling our work load and making no sense. Thanks to everything Philips is putting us through morale is down and people are quitting left and right. Their work is being pushed around now for no additional pay. Philips training makes no sense. I failed a training 7 times about how to handle a company AmEx card…. I don’t even have access to a company AmEx card. Make it make sense.
