Thread regarding General Electric Co. layoffs

We have plenty of D rates with T rate mentalities that were around long before T rates even existed. To act like D rates were held to higher standards and went to Harvard while T rates were held to lower standards and sent to HVCC is pathetic. Both rates have been sent to the same college and just like the T rates, there were plenty of D rates standing around with their GED in hand hoping to get into the program. Laziness, low IQ or a combination of both? There's enough of that going around in both rates. Don't fool yourself just because the old timers who retired years ago aren't around still calling you the same thing. However, D rates do lack something T rates don't. Have you seen their new lab/shop since they changed the program? The starting education any T rate receives from there far outweighs anything the D rates got from the old rundown labs. You all struggled to make your simples engines that were based off of designs made over 100 years ago. The D rate education is outdated and only functions in the GE environment. The T rate education is modern and better equipped to meet the changing demands of the future. Plus it'll work in other environments outside of GE. D rates have peaked, have nowhere to go and they all know it. This "I'm better than you because I get paid more to do the same job" attitude is old and worn out. It reflect badly upon those who express it and shows in your own work ethic. None of this is going unseen. Upper management knows it and is already dealing with it how they see fit on their own timeline.

The bar shop is like a votech class in high school. LOL stoned and drunks among the unskilled laborer positions. But they all want that d rate money and pension

It's laziness, low IQ or a combination of both. Anyone can use the IDP to get an AAS/AOS at HVCC that would qualify them for a position in SFO or machine repair. With the skilled trades adder these jobs allow a T-Rate to earn at least $34 per hour, not including shift differential.

There is a pathway to earn D-Rate or near D-Rate wages. The majority of T-Rates would rather whine and pout about their pay than take action that would provide them with both better pay at GE and a skill set that can be taken anywhere.

If you're still in the bar shop, it's very likely that your we'll below average, a monkey can do any job in there. As far as no path to a technical skill, that's not true. All you had to do was qualify for the machinist training program, if you didn't try, or couldn't qualify, that's on you, in which case you probably belong back at Burger King.