GE Layoffs = FieldCore Disaster

GE Power turbine service recently fired all their workers and told them the can come back and work for their Temp agency called FieldCore.

It used to be called Granite Service and Penn Power but they recently changed their name to FieldCore because of the bad reputation they had with customers. GE Power management, mainly people who had never done the work, were fooled into believing that 85% of those fired would come back and work for FieldCore at huge pay cuts, and no overtime for typical 60 and 84 hour weeks, often times on night shift in power plants away from home for months at a time. Some walked off customers sites with turbines opened, leaving customers high and dry.

We hear that around 40% quit outright and many more will quit in a few months once they find another job since there is no incentive for the sacrifice that the job requires.

Customers are going nuts and so is the market with workers calling all over looking for jobs.

Anyone hear anything more about this disaster that is unfolding just before the spring outage season?

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Only 14% of the field TA's took Fieldcore up on their initial offer of a 20% pay cut. Some held out and got a raise. Others moved on to other companies.

GE is now left scrambling. The spring season will be rough but GE will chalk it up to climbing the learning curve.

i dont belive this sh-- !

FieldCore is now calling everyone they can find looking for field engineers for the spring outage season.

This is because so many quit when they tried to force them to come back as non GE employees with huge pay cut and no overtime pay. Now they have a very unstable workforce, worse than before and customers are going elsewhere because they don't trust FieldCore or GE

Many of the turbine service companies started by when GE screwed their workers where experts that were recognized by customers went out on their own like MDA from the 1986 GE plant closing and mass firing disasters.

There are now many independents that charge half of what GE charges and have more competent turbine experts with 20 plus years of knowledge. GE has created its own competition by bad decisions by managers with little knowledge of the business. In many cases GE service is lousy where inexperienced service engineers rely of the GE Atlanta PAC which customers hate because it is just an answer center without experts. GE Power has already lost a lot of service business because of all this, and now they are in a downward spiral

What a way to run a turbine service business.

The decision to move season employees to fieldcore is a disaster. In the US ten outages were bid to other companes with two customers kicking fieldcore off the site.

Ex-GE employees are forming their own companies and charging half the price of GE and they are making double what GE paid them.

@1caw, someone is a bitter old bastard, aren’t they?

And I notice that we have to contact Anonymous to take that bet...

I am awestruck by your confidence in your own intelligence.

"We hear that around 40% quit outright and many more will quit in a few months once they find another job"

LOL! Good luck with that. I got $100 that says less than 20% of them find another job. Welcome to reality kiddies.

The same is true with the former Alstom Technical Services going to FieldCore. So Turbine isn't the only area affected. FieldCore is disastrous for itself and the balance of the Power Service business.

It is sad to hear that Russel is just another a fool who doesn't understand the business.

In the service business, your field engineers and technicians will either make or break you and are what the customer sees as GE. Their ability to know and service all makes and vintages of turbines takes years and the consequences in power plants are huge. It will cost GE a fortune to try to reconstitute the service organization they have just destroyed.

Already customers are calling people they know for the spring outage season because they don't trust GE Power / FieldCore. Word gets around quickly.

This is a public relations disaster for GE Power and will cost them a fortune in lost service work, and having to get workers they need for the turbine service business. They may not be able o recover from this for years

In Russel call yesterday he said something like "Fieldcore is a great idea to align our franchise (new buzz word here), with customer expectations however the execution isn't going as smooth as expected".

Besides the US, Middle East and Africa should have also transitioned, don't know under what conditions.

Europe is now looking at last quarter of 2018 for the transfer. They are "promising" same conditions and T&L for 12 months, after that no one knows.

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