GE Salem; once an Emerald in the Crown of GE, respected and prized by the company leadership for decades. Now treated like imitation cubic zirconium, to be worn on the toe rings of the Indians to whom our jobs go to. Such a d@#m shame.
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Xenophobia? Are you kidding? What did the OP say that was xenophobic? He/she was talking about the demise of what used to be one of the top innovative plants related to GE. Seems to me your looking for something that isn't there. And for the record, they do wear toe rings.
Toe rings are cool xenophobia is not
Let's face it. The Salem site is a dump. Nobody in their right mind would buy this building. Far too many skeletons buried here. This site goes back to the mid-1950s. My guess is it qualifies for low-level SuperFund status. There’s gotta be tons of PCBs in the soil. And I’m not talking Printed Circuit Boards. Power capacitor electrolyte. Transformer oil. Circuit breaker oil. Electroplating chemicals. Raw sewage. You name it!
I should know. I've been there a decade-plus. Senior management of this fine GE Corporation decided a long-long time ago to stop investing in the Salem site. I suspect there is reason for that.
In my observations (again over 10 years in Salem), the manufacturing operation in conjunction with the union has made mistakes. To be clear - I'm blaming management. I'm in engineering.
And I will tell you that every single individual factory worker (non-management) in Salem that I have ever worked with has been a pleasure to work with. For the most part we have very knowledgeable and competent workforce. Always a few stragglers out there to help the curve though.
Back to Salem. It must be a damn shame for those old-timers who have 30+ years in and have seen the demise. The lukewarm attempts by manufacturing management to adapt to the changing climate completely screwed Salem. And many others.
Gordon Gecko decided that greed is good. He was 100% spot on! Greed is good for those who profit most from GE. But no good for anyone else. Employees. Shareholders. Senior management always walk away with a pirate’s chest of gold. Where have we gone wrong?
Was Salem supposed to adapt? How? On cost? On speed? On quality? Who in leadership was responsible for taking the necessary steps to adapt? That is the ultimate question.
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge in mankind. - Gordon Gekko