Ingersoll Rand

So my name is Paul Dongi.

I'm currently a global category manager with Ingersoll Rand in the precision technologies division.

I have over 14 years of experience in strategic sorting roles across a number of global complex manufacturing organisations in a number of sectors.

And my expertise lies within category management, SRM, cost optimisation and risk mitigation for direct materials.

Sorry, but that's just true.

I recall vividly when I was at Ingersoll Rand, about twenty or twenty-nine years old in the early '80s, an internal HR conference titled something like HR of the Future that the GE executives that were now running HR to, at IR started that featured speakers like Noel Tichy and Fred Foulkes and a very young Dave Ulrich, and it was a very inspirational three days.

We were reinventing the function.

So that was early in the process, and there would be many iterations that followed, and there will be more because there is no destination.

In fact, they said she'd rarely been seen in public.

Her husband, Pomater, worked as a mechanical designer at industrial machinery manufacturer Ingersoll Rand in North Carolina, according to his LinkedIn page, though he told neighbors that he was laid off in 2020 and was working for another company an hour outside of town.

He also ran an etching business out of his garage using a laser to engrave products and selling his works online.

Locals described Pomater as a far-right, deep-state propagandist who'd fill his Facebook feed with pictures of armed warriors, the American flag, Bible quotes, and anti-Biden vitriol.

In fact, they said she'd rarely been seen in public.

Her husband, Pomater, worked as a mechanical designer at industrial machinery manufacturer Ingersoll Rand in North Carolina, according to his LinkedIn page, though he told neighbors that he was laid off in 2020 and was working for another company an hour outside of town.

He also ran an etching business out of his garage using a laser to engrave products and selling his works online.

Locals described Pomater as a far-right, deep-state propagandist who'd fill his Facebook feed with pictures of armed warriors, the American flag, Bible quotes, and anti-Biden vitriol.

There's a lot of industrial organizations, a lot of employee-intensive organizations.

Ingersoll Rand was one of those.

You know, again, I was in Illinois, and a lot of these are more Middle America organizations.

But I haven't kept tabs on are these academy programs still really strong or not.

Right? In order, in order to get the attention of the people, 'cause, you know, a lot of times, I remember we...

You know, when I was at Ingersoll Rand, we would get stacks of resumes, and you'd spend, like, maybe 10 or 15 seconds on each one, and so it had to grab you.

So, so first you wanted a resume that grabbed you.

Then you would do, like, a phone interview.

What did your dad do?

He was a draftsman with Ingersoll Rand.

They make air compressors and lots of big heavy machinery.

And your mom?

Oh, wait.

I didn't mention economically sensitive names like United Rentals, Masco, Mohawk, Ingersoll Rand, Illinois Tool Works, DuPont, Dover, Albemarle, Allison Transmission, Parker Hannafin.

They're getting hit hard.

And what's the story? For me, surprisingly, another day yields.