Remember the good old days when you could be proud of your job? I miss it. Watching this company fail more and more each year gives me no pleasure. On the contrary, it makes me sad to see all that potential squandered away by people who have no place running this company. I wish we could go back, but it's obvious it's too late. There's no way but down for GE.
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Jeff Immelt k–led GE. Shame on him. Took money and ran
Oh, for one to yearn for the Good ole' days.
"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy."
Remember when saying you worked at GE actually meant something?
Yes. It meant I was employed. Helpppp!
I could not have said it better! 38 yrs
The good old days under Jack. Think things are slowly improving under Culp. He who should not be named the gambler was a disaster.
Lightweight response! One more time why wouldn’t China or India want their generators made in China or India?
I'm an American first, but do people understand the arrogance of insisting the American companies make their goods in America only vs. the country they are shipping it to. Just as Toyota, Nissan, BMW, etc. all make cars i the US, India, China, etc. want their generators made in their country.
Sure things have changed since or dad's economy. The China's, etc. where underdeveloped at the time but are not so today.
Insist to these other countries that they buy US made goods and the Boeings, Caterpillars, Microsofts, etc. will all be banned from selling in those countries. The GOP and Dems don't agree on much but they do understand trade, e.g., that free trade is essential.
You aren’t outsourcing jobs when your moving production to company or region buying the goods!
I retired at GE Aviation with 30 years service. This has been a fantastic place to work and I am very proud to have been part of the GE team. Safety of all workers is top priority as is quality of work. Regardless of negative comments, what I have experienced has all been good. I have worked and traveled all over the world working on jet engines at commercial airline facilities. With that said, here is my 2 cents worth- not meant to throw GE under the bus. GE over the last 15-20 years has systematically sent work out of the US and has either moved to existing plants or moved to a specific country and built new facilities. Management continually plays the shell game with facilities they have all over the world. This is due because each upper manager is measured only by his "bucket of dollars". If they can squeeze the average overhead cost down by moving little bits of production to a low-cost country, this will lower the average (global) cost. Overall, the engineering,design and production costs in the US are higher than those in low-cost countries. When the low-cost countries and the US rates are averaged together, this creates overall reduced rates for GE. The more work outsourced to other countries means the average cost comes down. FYI...most design work of new turbofan engines is outside the US along with a newer and younger workforce (a younger workforce equates to lower healthcare costs). The problem here is not GE, keep in mind most of GE Aviations customers are foreign airlines, the problem is the US government policy in regard to large US corporations and the practice of outsourcing jobs to reduce costs. There is a bigger loss to the US when a job or production is allowed to move out of the US. Federal, State, and local taxes are lost as well as the negative impact on the local community. This will continue to spiral down unless the US policy is changed. It's not the corporations...its our political leaders and the policies that have been put in place. As for the layoffs, GE Aviation is cutting deep to survive, not just in the US but globally. Due to covid-19, airline flights world wide have been reduced by 50 to 60 % which directly affects GE Aviation (Maintenence, Repair, Overhaul and OEM engine orders).
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All true but you agree that countries buying products like China, Indua, etc. can say FY to American based manufacturing and say I want it made in their countries. If we say no they cut off imports from Boeing, Caterpillar, etc. the world has changed and GE changed with it
The Good Ol' Days as I remember them started getting k–led off in the late 80's. Most people posting on this site were probably in diapers at best back then. Did we realize it back then, no we didn't, but that's when it started. The effects were pretty small and unnoticeable for the most part. GE had been growing day after day up until then. It basically peaked as an enjoyable place to work, you we're proud to work there, and those who wanted to work there were envious of us who did. If you got in, you could really feel good about yourself and feel like you "made it!" By the mid-late 90's is when the effects were really starting to be noticeable on a large scale. That's when we started to realize that things that happened routinely were now being delayed, rescheduled, or canceled until further notice. Years later we realized that the rescheduling was never done, the delays go for some long that they hardly ever happen, and we're still waiting for further notice. This goes without mentioning the down sizing with moral events. The family events were amazing and now we're lucky if they happen. Don't even get me started on if they are worth going to when they do happen. Every time somebody retired, they took their job and divided it among two or more people. The moving up really started to grind to a halt. Us Seasoned Old Timers are now gone. Our stories of what it used to be like are no longer being told and you younger people don't know any better. I'm sure that for many, as bad as it looks to me, it's probably the best you've ever had. Personally, I wouldn't trade my worst days for any of your best days. For a long time we knew we had stuff to look forward to as we worked hard. We were building the future. We could see it happen. There's no building of a future anymore, just struggling to maintain the day. When we had bad times, our work had enough momentum to get us through it until things got better again. It's not like that anymore. Since the turn of the century GE has become nothing like the GE when I started. These past ten too fifteen years have become the new legacy of what everybody thinks GE is, and it's not a good one that makes insiders proud or outsiders envious.