Giving layoffs to great employees is the pinnacle of disrespect, however, rarely does anyone feel respected while working here. I personally do not know anyone who feels respected here.
I didn’t feel humiliated at all when they told me they didn’t need me anymore, but I felt very humiliated when they called me back. What did they expect? That I will accept without even thinking about it?
For me it's when 2/3 of the location had just been told they were getting laid off.... then the very next item in the inbox was Steve Bolze sharing what a great time he was having at Davos with Will I Am....
I left several years ago and there are better companies available that treat their employees with more respect. Every third year at GE the raises were frozen and every 4-5 years another layoff cycle. Interviewing to keep your job was an insulting PR move that was degrading.
Being told that our jobs were numerically doubling with additional stress and workload and to appreciate being allowed to “keep our jobs”. Watching no management have to go through the same exercise. Watching cell leaders that used to have 10-12 salaried heads then have 4-6 heads. Entire depts that could combine.
They keep hitting people in the hit with buckets, where's the union protection? I've read like 2 people say that. Way too much!
At barbs snack snack when I caught some fat wrestler wannabe dude who just sat in there stealing money and taking free snacks.
I feel like the relationship between GE and us workers is basically like that of a bad marriage. It looked great going in. We thought we saw potential in GE and felt like GE saw potential in us. Now the years have gone by and the honeymoon is way over. It's hard to make myself walk away and seek a divorce. I have all these years invested and to start over with searching for a new person (employer) to start a relationship with to get married all over again, it just makes me cringe. I pretty much have myself convinced that it's better to stay in an unloving marriage that I'm completely miserable in than to take the risk to start over with something much better. At least here, I already know what I have and I'm pretty positive about what I have coming to me. If I stick it out, maybe it'll get better and GE and I will rediscover the love we both once had for each other. Odds are that once the kids are out of the house (the workload is completed) I'll get get served my divorce papers (pink slip). I hate being in this situation where I feel like there is no viable option for me to make. All options seem like bad options and I don't feel like I'll live long enough to be able to wait it out for better days.