It is virtually impossible to social distance 6 feet at the Schdy plant. I do not want a layoff but I also do not want the virus. We should NOT have been working this week. Guys are coughing and sniffling and congregate near time clock like its just another day. There is NO hand sanitizer and masks are short for job. Ant stockpiled masks should go to healthcare in need. This is NOT an essential job at this moment in time. The union silence and GE silence is deafening.
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Heard stan the man was handing out our last meals yesterday
The problem with ge and its product is not the workers making it, it's the fact they give thru so many engineers and everytime a new one comes in they want to change up things that were working good before. Also another problem with ge is the fact that they are competing against themselves when it comes to power generation, windmill and solar vs gas and steam and with the push to go green other nations cities countries are doing just that. Reliability of the product isnt there anymore with constant material changes and or less then acceptable parts being used.
I seriously doubt it will be anytime this year. I heard that after the Battery Plant failure, GE did a hard look over everything from the past couple of decades and they see the decline that continues to this day with no signs of improving in Schenectady. You can’t manufacture high tech products with low tech workers who are paid high tech wages. You can’t keep your product and switch your workers. The Union would never allow it. So they will go until their product is obsolete and that’s the end of it. The product is no longer selling so it’s not worth making and the workers are no longer worth keeping. The new designs will be manufactured somewhere else. Maybe India. Who really knows. If Edison had to pick a place to build his plant today, he’d never give Schenectady a thought.
Sorry to tell you...but this plant will be shut down soon enough. The closing notice is being worked out and should be delivered sometime this year. The union plants are nothing but a cash dump. Why pay $30/hr when it can be build in India for $4/hr. Don't worry.....the clue less HR rep the site inherited is only good at one thing.....bring told how to lay folks off. Bye bye NY!
Several times I’ve heard that GE has wanted to walk away from Schenectady and shut it down. I’ve been told GE no longer believe there is any quality people to pull from the local area for employment and they started thinking this almost 20 years ago. They started to notice a decline in the general educational aptitude from their test every time they looked for new employees. It was their main reason for wanting the two tier pay scale. Now they have that and their next step was to deal with the D rates that they are stuck with. The only way would be to let the place become obsolete. I heard that the union knows this and is going along because they will be made safe in the end. From what I see, it’s hard to not believe it.
Just keep paying your union dues and stay quiet.
Once again ge and the union proves they don't care about the people and only care about themselves
I’m sure the hr wonder the site inherited from Salem is making a great impact!
What a joke I have been to Schenectady and it is easy to stay 6 feet away in the plant if you did your job and WORKED !!
They all congregate in the break areas doing nothing ... the plant is lucky to get 4 hours work for 8 hours of pay!!
Very sad indeed
@2npj+145TahvV The GE you speak of doesn’t exist anymore. It pretty much went away completely when you did. People like you don’t work here anymore. What you ended up passing this place off to are a bunch of GED holding high school dropout degenerates. It’s a shame that the legacy you worked hard to make has been wasted away so quickly by those here now. Thanks for all you did but it was all for nothing.
Worked on the factory floor in Schenectady from Sept 1965-March 2009. The first 18 in Large Motor&Generator, the rest in Large Steam Turbine Generator. Can’t say a bad thing about the company, but I know things have changed there.
D-Rates get sick and then they just happen to not recover. Pretty ingenious way to thin your heard. Reduce your overpriced work force with a pandemic. Well played GE. I wonder how many will end up freeing up the demand on the pension by falling out??
Schenectady is a risk GE is willing to take lol. What's the worst thing that could happen?
All it will take is one person to infect the whole plant. If someone is in the bathroom going number 2, the Sars CoV 19 can spread from going potty. Or if someone coughs the Sars CoV 19 can linger in the air for 3 hours along with droplets that can live on surfaces of metal and plastic for 4-5 days and cardboard for 24 hrs. So I am glad I am home working good luck
Get in touch with NY Governor’s office confidentially. Do it NOW. You will be doing favor to lots of people.
Anyone who lives their life with the expectation of always collecting OT, deserves what’s coming to them. They didn’t need an $80k 4x4 to carry the latest cellphone around. They didn’t need an RV, motorcycle, boat, 4 wheeler, hot rod, or the rest of the c-ap they’ve been able to make payments on because they thought the OT would go on forever. I hope they felt real good looking all flashy! I don’t feel sorry for a single one of them. We all have a good paying 40 hours a week job, especially the D-Rates. It wasn’t unreasonable to be responsible and make that paycheck work. If you choose to live paycheck to paycheck, no matter how much you make then this is the risk you run. Those of you freaking out because you can’t go without a paycheck or two, reevaluate your life because you obviously seriously s— at it.
the problem is that most people are relying on that overtime so they won’t take the time off.. they can’t live without the ot so they continue to come in and work and get everyone sick..
CDC guidelines suggest people who are sick should stay home. I bet some people with mild symptoms of coronavirus in the near future will not quarantine themselves. It will spread quickly in a workplace. The shortage of hand sanitizer everywhere isn't helping. It is needed at every work station. Who is able to run to the bathroom and wash their hands frequently? It is a pandemic people. Sad but true.
"Guys are coughing and sniffling and congregate near time clock like its just another day." Complaining about having to be at work for fear of getting sick while standing around the time clock and coughing on everyone and everything. This is why Schenectady is doomed to fail. None of them can get their head right. Just overpaid dirt bags who barely perform enough at best. Listening to a smoker worry about getting sick from this virus is laughable. It's essential that this dump get shut down.