Changing GE is impossible
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Dump the wfh slackers that take credit for other people's work while spending their own workday taking care of personal business and reward those who actually produce.
Increase Culp’s compensation package
@7cuj+17ETAFDb. Don't let the door hit you in your a.. on the way out
@7cuj+17ETAFDb. If its such a "dysfunctional garbage shoot", why not leave now and start improving the site?
Hire more hotties. The quality of my site's Top 10 prettiest women list has plummeted over the past few years as people who could find jobs did so.
I would walk away from the dysfunctional garbage shoot. March of 2021 I am leaving 273 and this JOB without looking back.
You mean, what would Mr. J P Morgan do.
I would ask myself "What would Thomas Edison do"?
@4poo+17ETAFDb; what it sounds like and how it’s viewed verses actuality stems from the individual’s own experience, ha, only I know for sure. But wrong again.
@4poo+17ETAFDb- sounds about right dork
3fcw+17ETAFDb- WRONG
2rlw+17ETAFDb- that post must of came from one of those special people who feel like they are entitled to post on here with some company brown nosing post. This post must of been from a back side kisser to all the managers.
GE is a laughing stock! Does not know if it’s coming or going. Ride it out till the big layoff of 2021
Instead of waiting until the last possible moment to start the scramble to fill empty positions (or not, but I digress) of those that have retired, try to show the respect that the near future retirees have earned & deserve, and utilize their knowledge and expertise in their specific field by implementing an advanced training program for the new hires.
Who knows, someone may just care enough about their future, and the future of GE as well, to actually be interested enough to learn a trade &/or a critical position in the grand scheme of what once was a powerhouse of a company.
Until this happens, a few words of wisdom,
GET OUT WHILE THE GETTINS GOOD !
I would quit that circus and start over that’s how I would change it.
2rlw+17ETAFDb, you can PRETEND but give the whole a little more credit. You can only fool yourself if you think you are fooling everyone else. Believe it or not, companies do invest in their workers and GE at times are not the labeled “norm”. How many companies go whining to the bottom how they have to give up what little they have cause the top didn’t do their job extensively and made a bad investment decision. Where managers and leadership fails is by arrogance, inflated egos, and insensitivity to the ones beneath them.
@1ahp+17ETAFDb, your thread should have continued, apple pie for all, cure cancer, eliminate world hunger, etc.
Get rid of unions-They lie and blow smoke up the memberships backside with a smile.
Make corporate America- not blow smoke up workers backsides and short change them day in and day out.
All of the latest and successful companies PRETEND to invest in company workers. Don't assume the grass is always greener, some companies are better at PR/Propaganda.
GE is the norm for Corporate America.
Hire back the union members who quit and walked away from the un needed stresses of working their. Stop the chess game and the gambling with human needs to survive and cut out the corporate greed. Why should someone go to work and have to worry about their livelihood every day? Why Make an attempt to voice and fight for topics that should already be taken care of by the shady union? Good healthcare! Good retirement! Good pay! Equal livelihood!
start focusing on customers and products. drastically reduce initiatives (use lean but appropriately) and stop metrics on top of metrics. do the right thing and the do it the right the first time
All of the latest and successful companies invest into their company workers (management and hourly) alike and the workers invest themselves back into the company. Like our dad’s days. Both parties are happy campers. However GE, like so many other companies, place the third party- stockholders above as the importance over the initial core two parties after awhile the axis of the company begins to corrode and crumble. If more attention was invested into the foundation of the company, it becomes healthy, happy and the profits will soar from everyday ideas and invested hard work. Only then will the company become financially solid. Keep the importance of the stockholders last not first. Every time bean counters run the company from the executive board, companies become unstable at the core.
I would install a new incentive/bonus system to rewarded executives and managers that saved jobs. Just look at LC compensation based on stock price. How is he getting that stock price by cutting our jobs in the rank and file. Who is to say we couldn't have saved the company by not selling all our assets; Synchrony, Appliances, Transportation, Capital Leasing, Pharma, Oil & Gas, Lighting, Water and many more. So everybody in love with LC take a look at who profits.
Get rid of any executive that was here under I-melt, thus removing the festering boil they represent. Take back the manufacturing facilities, and hire non union workers who would actually appreciate a good paying job. Get rid of 70% of middle management, there are to many hogs at the trough.
break up the company. little to no value for Aviation, Healthcare and Power to be together. from there, look to what leaders at GE spin-offs (see Synchrony) have done to empower and gain employee satisfaction, one of the most critical elements of any company that unfortunately GE has always overlooked
Move all mfg to "right to work" states or offshore.
Bring back "We Bring Good Things To Life". GE's downfall can be clearly linked to abandoning that slogan.
Get rid of the Management "c.y.b. syndrome" at GE. Management needs to be direct, confident, and straightforward with customers, vendors, and peers. No more "vague" answers to questions. This only gives the impression of ignorance and lack of problem solving. Give a straight answer and be right about it. Management always leaves wiggle room to back out of a situation when it is obvious that incompetence and little investigative work was involved. I often feel more perplexed after talking to Management than before I start.
Also stop wasting thousands of $$$ on these "workouts" where they fly people from around the world to some one week meeting which usually accomplishes very little.
My humble few cents
1) Get rid of these failed mgmt training programs like CAS, DTLP, Crotonville and promote managers and executives based on merit only.
2) Hold all employees accountable for their performance. Too many freeloaders in the company.
3) Ban on speaking more than one buzzword in a sentence. Be less impressed with great talkers and presentations.
4) Get rid of this archaic S2 process and habit of laying off good employees just because their project lost funding.