Schenectady is an ancient t–d that has been stuck to the foot of the GE boot for a long time. Sc-ape it off on the nearest curb as soon as possible and move on toward breaking things up. Any salary or union employees left in 273 must be the very bottom of the barrel that were too incompetent or two scared to leave 24 months ago. The place is a depressing pit of despair regardless of who you talk to. My sales numbers with them have dropped steadily for 31/2 years and it’s not even worth my time to sell product there any more due to their payment terms. I stopped doing business with the plant last month. They are in a truly sad state and I don’t see how that plant will last much longer. Head count is continuously decreasing by dribs and drabs and employees have little hope for the future.
The place just needs to be closed. Way too broken to be fixed at any level. Most of the union folks can go work at Walmart distribution and make about the same money while salary folks will just need to pull stakes move out of the area.
It’s sad state of affairs there.
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This is for those who doubt another round is coming here is your wake up coffee.
The industrial company also began 2020 in the midst of a significant restructuring that management had undertaken in order to improve profitability and free cash flow.
CEO Larry Culp is overseeing a restructuring of GE's power and renewable energy segments. The near-term goal is for them to start generating cash flow in 2021 and 2022 respectively. In the longer term, the aim is to pull those segments' margins up to the levels of their peers, such as Vestas and Siemens Gamesa in renewable energy, and Siemens Energy in power.
Enjoy the free ride and coffee
@1aft+18hB8JzA if you got rid of all the entitled legacies at all Plants things would run much smoother and faster.
@1aft+18hB8JzA Lets be honest here. Those 6 days a week are being worked at 20% effort. That's putting it kindly. If people actually worked at the same speed they move when it's time to punch out and go home, those 6 days of work could be completed in 1 day. It's a good thing nothing that we make is needed with any kind of urgency to the help deal with an emergency. If there was, we'd be screwed!
That’s what they said last layoff too then I was jobless.
For those of you hoping they'll be a layoff I'm sorry to say you're going to be disappointed!! There's actually more than enough work for our current #'s to carry us through to at least 2022 4th quarter . And that's working 6 days a week minimum. So if you're not happy now you best ask Santa claus for a new job because the one you got ain't going nowhere!
"Pink Slip Party", nothing wrong with that if demand warrants a lay-off
@1wvb+18hB8JzA- It depends on what side of the fence your looking threw on the better part. Until then just going to hang tight until we rounded up in a room again for the big pink slip party.
Hoping the clean up happens soon. Not sure how many or how deep it will go but it should help. There’s been a lot of work put in by a lot of people for well over a year, things might get worse before they get better but they WILL get better. Hang tight.
Most of Schenectadys least senior workforce has next to nothing for skills other than making coffee. Or working on a production line at McDonals Schenectady is like high school. Popularity contests day in day large egos of people thinking they arrived in the corporate world. People who hate working here and are miserable but won’t leave because they can’t with their skills. GE has a hooked on phonics book on where to put paint and tape on copper and paint in the lines. Everyone working here is going to be in for an eye opening awaking when the lies don’t pan out. “Like we have tons of work”. We don’t have the work that the union and the company are preaching. Just keep working like there will be a tomorrow. But when around spring time comes tomorrow will not be here for your job. Your ego will burst and you will be left out to dry.
Well said, the worst of the bunch at Schenectady is this anti-slate bunch. BS artists