I wonder what the future holds for a company that so easily allows talented employees like my colleague who left yesterday - to decide to leave this place.
What really surprises me is that there are talented and capable people left here at all, given the overall atmosphere here
This is all BS. Attrition is miniscule compared to other companies, and the people who leave were usually no-good and didn't embrace lean.
HR and managers are choosing, trying to lure talent, and basing promotions with one hand tied behind their backs. One example is the general policy of D&I. It forces them to make choices based on irrelevant differences and not on talent alone. The best person for the job is not always the “best person for the job” and those people leave for better pastures. It does happen. No one likes to use the term “quota”, but it is a reality nonetheless.
Nick Saban said it best, “Mediocre people don't like high achievers and high achievers don't like mediocre people."
There are too many “mediocre” people here so the talented people are leaving. The mediocre stay because they are tolerated by the mediocre managers.
There is no HR department in GE. They hire kids from good schools, assuming they are smart, using GE propaganda and development programs to catch them, and Upper Management think that their individual talents will be enough but it isn't. Smart people learn more from smart people around them. When the number of smart people goes down, there is a natural death spiral on talent. The smart ones quickly learn this and hit the road. Only the folks with local roots stay for they don't want to relocate.
It's a 2 part problem. Talent is leaving or will be leaving through retirement. There is no real strategy around transitioning the workforce. I see most of my team leaving around the time the split begins. It's going to be messy and the only layers they are looking at is VP and above right now. 2024 is going to come alot faster than we all think. I have a plan B in the event that GE doesn't work out for me.
Maybe they see and herd something on what’s to come in the very near future? Maybe they know Power is about to get hit hard with more restructuring plans with the labor force. I hope they do there are so many brown nosers here. When your boss walks on the floor you run right up and open the red carpet and shower them with rose petals. To keep the focus off of their area and lack of production. I find it very Entertaining.
I worked both power and aviation....20 years combined, and got out! Every GE is the same. Such a waste of talent....GE could be ten times better and bigger than it is.
Where is this?
They had massive brain drain in the Research Center, my wife included. She left a couple months ago and couldn’t be happier