Thread regarding General Electric Co. layoffs

I’ve read to many of these now I’m in Hooksett and we are laying off and moving people and they don’t care about time on job they screw whom ever they like all on the oh it will make us stronger yeah right get used to it this is the first round their will be more lay offs and as far as legacy goes I’m in the middle and I worked in the real world ge legacy is the most unskilled work force I have ever seen they won’t last at a ten job none have the skills to we make the same parts for 50 years and still have to hand work them pls and the kids they get from these tech schools laughable so when ge drops off the face of this earth and is gobbled up by a bigger company remember these words you want fries with that

They will never layoff the d rates we have all the knowledge and hands on experience. We are not cry babies like these diaper wearing t rates. Those t rates are wet behind the ears and need to learn about life values. These t rates need to be great full for this corporate greedy company and your temporary jobs you have at the moment. Your Temp job got most of you out of your $10 hr job you had prior. We are untouchable and the t rates are disposable zeros.

Where do people get this fallacy of an idea that nobody hired before 2011 can be let go? Do they honestly think it's so long ago that it can't reach them? Will you still feel this laughable invincibility when there are no more people junior to all of you left to let go? All of you better read up on the history of GE. I advise you to give special attention to the late 80's.

Look at all this chaos! So many of these cry babies! T Rates should be grateful to have a job right now! It will be over for the T Rates in June/July haven’t we all noticed what’s going on? More QCR products, more than usual like around the last round of cuts. June/July is close!

@3ipf+14X26M1r you make it sound like there was this outside group of individuals called T Rates that finally convinced GE to hire them at a lower hourly rate, unfavorable conditions, and it screwed everything up for the D Rates who were already doing well. GE created the concept, pitched it to the Union during the contract negotiations, the Union pitched it to all the D Rates who were the only workers who existed and they Voted to Create the T Rates. They did it because the Junior D Rates were Scared they might get Laid Off or Lose their Job because they were the Juniors with No Seniority. Not One Single T Rated Voted for This. The D Rates are the ones who Screwed Around, got Knocked Up, and Gave Birth to the T Rates. They didn't asked to be Born. They would have Gladly Accepted a Job as a D Rate. Now they get Blamed for Screwing Everything Up? The D Rates need to Man Up and accept their Responsibility. They Voted to Pass the Buck because they were Weak and Scared and then they Deny Ownership of that Vote. If you were there, then you know I'm right!

2sis+14X26M1r- I agree with everything but the last part. The distinction is not at the bottom of the picture! It’s the top of the food chain! If the higher scale guys made what the lower scale guys make it wouldn’t make any difference. The orders are not what they use to be! The only reason GE hired in 2011 was to get a tax break during the recession and they had the mega deal. Once the mega deal finished they knew some lower scale people would be back on the street. Some lower scale would make the cut because of the retirements of others. A lot of the technology of power is out dated and the Majority of the orders are for wind and solar. The t rates came in and ruined the line rate. The reason the legacy guys make what they do because they use to get piece rate. Once it converted over to hourly that how the past practice was made for what was produced. The t rates came in and messed it all up. Along with these clueless ops leaders. It’s a sweat shop and I hope they shut it down. The company is walking all over the union! T Rates sold out for $1 here, 60 cents there to give the company back orbit pay, and other perks. Soon the contracts will be pointless with high healthcare, less perks, no backbone from the floor. So all those cry baby t rates can go back to making coffee, their secretary jobs, assembly jobs, construction jobs. GE will never be what it use to be! They use to take care of the employees. Now the union is gone and the legacy of a possibility of a great career is gone. So in a nutshell the union is broken, divided, and will jump on a nickel to give something back out of the contract. The company is pretty much bankrupt. So good luck thinking your job is secure and you will ever have what the legacy ever had.

The senior legacy grade paid workers are mostly skilled. Not the junior legacy grade workers. What is the difference between the last worker to be brought in as a legacy and the one who was brought in as a lower pay grade? Don’t tell me it’s education or experience. I know plenty of legacy grade workers who never made it through high school, hold a GED and didn’t know anything about their job other than how much it paid per hour. There are several lower pay workers that are completely the opposite. They were just late to the party. The only difference is one worker made it just in time to get the bigger pay and the other was just too late. If everyone had to prove their worth through performance, the results would be shocking but it would at least fix a lot of the disfunction that has been going on for years.

Told a friend at work yesterday things weren't right. We are busy at our HC facility....but yet millions of people have lost benefits and, hospitals havent done anything unless its covid related / life or death / in months. We just keep on taking more and more salary people by the month. We are probably 50/50 at our place ,or close, to the hourly headcount. Production reminds of pre contract times right now, stocking the inventory. Wouldnt surprise me to see this 3rd qt . Most analyst have already wrote off q3 anyway, and it gives them a month before q2 is released to squeeze us.

Get some more OMLPs to run the show into the ground, we need another LEAN ACTION WORKOUT, 10 years of lean work outs and still beating the same old dead horse.GE is facing some massive head winds,here come the layoffs in healthcare,stay tuned!!!

My father did 41 years with GE and retired over 15 years ago. He's still kicking around but is in pretty bad shape now. He hasn't been able to enjoy his retirement for about the past 8 years. His healthcare that was promised by GE was cut years ago. The pension is worthless if you aren't alive to enjoy it or in good enough shape. Many of his coworkers that I remember when I was a kid, have already passed within a few years after their retirement. Some are still fighting cancer or something of the sorts from what he has told me. The exposure you get for all those years isn't worth the pension that you'll most likely never live to see. I'm glad I took his advice and stayed away from the certain jobs that pay more because of what it exposes you to. He warned me many many many times to not fall for it. Glad I took his advice but now I wonder if I'll outlive my pension when I retire. This isn't the GE he worked for. It's no longer the GE I started working for years ago. His retirement isn't what he worked for or was promised and I no longer think my retirement will be what I've been working for or what I'm being promised. Of all the times he talked about what he would do when he would retire, none of what has happened over the past 12 plus years was even thought of as a possibility. "Generous Electric" has obviously been gone for a long time now.

I'm a t rate and I don't need overtime to survive because I dont live above my means, so therefore i dont have to live a ge like most of these ignorant d rates. I have what I need a house over my head a reliable vehicle and money in the bank all without working a day of overtime. Funny thing is d rates say t rates are cry babies but without us t rates who would you pieces of chit have to help you or cover for you when you mess up, not to mention you d rates are the first to go come sero/vrip time. As for the union, they arent going to protect any of us anymore they sold us out a long time ago and climbed in bed with the company, most of yous dont know our wonderful business agent is part of the reason we have the chit insurance now.

EB band and up are all laughing at you while eating steak and drinking wine.

The T-Rates knew from Day 1 that they had ZERO protection. We knew ever day could be our last day. So we NEVER got comfortable. We still lived like we were living off of our old lower paying job. We've been ready for this. The D-Rates have been stupid enough to think they are protected and things will only improve. Like chumps they listened to the Union. Don't worry, go buy that boat and get a new truck while you're at it. Hell!! Get it lifted as well so you can look down on all those T-Rate Losers every time you drive through the parking lot. You all got comfortable and it made you weak! Now you're too old to start out somewhere else and too young to retire. No sympathy here!!