Thread regarding General Electric Co. layoffs

Guy from Greenville here. I got the chance to see HSC before GE wrecked the culture there. It was one of my favorite service centers to visit and work on projects with, but after O&G Florence took over control of it they turned it into a virtual clone of the Florence Service Center, where nothing gets done correctly if it gets done at all. I'm sorry it turned out this way. I wish you the best of luck in finding a new employer, as we are on the same road here now also.

over 30 years in the business 28 of those years at Aldine Westfield ( HSC ). Most comments I have seen on these posts should tell the tale. HSC is a non union facility although most employees ( hourly ) have a union mentality . GE introduced this culture , PRECO TURBINE SERVICES was the name of HSC before GE buyout . PRECO was a well respected name in the industry well diversified with one thing in mind "customer" . We had actual salesmen who beat the streets building a client base turning PRECO into a money machine . Employees didn't have the opportunity to not work , shop could complete a gas path repair turning it back to customer in seven day's. LINERS | TP'S | NZLS | in one week .

Customers in most cases didn't mind paying time & material because they knew what they were getting. PRECO had profit sharing 401K & great insurance , but a boss / owner that would make it very clear when you were hired you will work , overtime is mandatory . Unlike GE if you failed to meet his expectations you were escorted out . Production was exciting , morale was great , customers were thankful . Then GE came and most customers hate us , most employees not all are lazy . Our machines are dinosaurs or need repair , they now push us to produce quality repairs with minimal resources . LT on parts needed is ridiculous . Tribal knowledge has been labeled urban legends , just makes me wonder if the upper management really know how site managers & cells are running there business in the ground . PISSES ME OFF !! I was proud to work here , just finished updating resume , I have no more fight left. Probably be in the next layoff anyway .

I also know several people that have died from Cancer after working in the Greenville Plant. Including the former plant manager after starting her career there on the plant floor. She was a wonderful person and passed away so young.

Wouldn't OSHA investigate the percentage of cancer deaths?

@1cxi GE Oil & Gas has it's own board, I'll bump your post there.

No, main plant meaning Greenville (Standera Bldg). It is amazing that the infrastructure works as well as it does.

main plant meaning schenectady?

The main plant has extreme electrical hazards due to neglect, ignoring and ignorance of current code requirements. Since the main facility was built on 1960's codes, GE thinks they are grandfathered into avoiding code compliance on new installations. They have high voltage hazards without protection near moving equipment and people. I wouldn't want my son or daughter to work in this condition. Many people that worked in Greenville have died of cancer. Too many people have died of cancer not have a correlation. This needs to be made public and investigated.

Yes, in fact today combustion manufacturing got a floor washing and power cut via the sprinkler system, courtesy of the ongoing infrastructure troubles.

@ONRmPd1-1bvd, you have a good point about Greenville. Greenville is allowing itself to deteriorate beyond repair. Standera was good for Greenville jobs but weak on maintaining the facility. Greenville's current plant manager is a bean counter and is in way over his head. The facilities leader in Greenville is more concerned about his arrogance than being a proficient facility and toilet manager.

GE Oil and Gas INC 1150 Schwab Road, Schertz Texas 78132 830-625-1613, started a massive Laying off its permanent GE employees full time hourly and salary employees and keeping its contractors? August 16, 2017 whats going on? All we were told by CEO Don Smith is that we are part of the new restructuring phase GE?

Greenville will eventually close as well, sometime after Schenectady. There are serious maintenance issues with the facility, which have been pushed down the road year after year. Eventually they will close it rather than fix them as it is simply too expensive to bring it up to modern standards in this era of cost cutting.

Greenville SC is becoming a service center because Greenville is anti-union. Schenectady will eventually close.

@ONRmPd1-1bqt --- very good comments and description of our challenges and concerns. My worry is that Flannery is of the same mold as Immelt with the exception of the fact Flannery is more of a "knee jerk" manager.

Jeff Immelt will be remembered as the one who mortally wounded a 125 year old giant of industry. Flannery will be remembered as the one who presided over the terminal decline. We needed leadership, but got PC rats instead.

Schenectady, Belfort will save them money and frankly ge wants to get away from unions

from which ge plant

Either Bellfort or Schenenctady have to go. which will it be?

Schenectady gonna end up being a huge service shop.

Here's the biggest cost cutting idea yet ...get rid of John Rice and GGO... what a waste of billions annually. All they are is an organization with no added value with their cost allocated to the businesses that must be offset through cost cutting to pay for them.

So getting very concerned that all we've done is put another Jeff Immelt clone in place as our CEO. He had to follow in Jeff's footsteps today and get involved in Politics with his endorsement of Jeff dropping of the Presidents manufacturing council. Who cares; does Mr. Flannery not realize we as employees are done with Jeff and the irreversible harm he has done to this company and the people who worked so hard to try and maintain their livelihoods at risk while he walks away with over $200MM. All the cronies at Corporate act like he is some type of hero. Mr. Flannery you'd be well advised to drop Jeff Immelt from your vocabulary and hopefully come in and get this company on track without more of the same. It is extremely disheartening when all GE is known to be good at to improve the bottom line is: 1. Cut costs in form of layoffs, benefit reductions, year over year budget constraints; 2. Financial Engineering- wow are we good at that, we have more people working to figure out how we can model our Multi-year contracts for productivity to book revenue with no cash than we have working to serve our customers and developing a lasting strategy for growth. (Then we all act surprised when the analyst figure us out and we have a cash problem) 3. Tax lawyers working to setup Legal entities all over the world to avoid taxes; and don't forget the Power Servces move to Switzerland to avoid billions in taxes on parts sales. (For all those employees in the US just remember all this results in more tax burden on you) . These are just top 3 but if I were looking at this with no backdrop of GE one would have to ask yourself is this a model for company that has a future. It's a model of smoke and mirrors that Mr. Immelt condoned over his 16 years ultimately resulting in over a 40% reduction in stock valuation which is why one of the biggest investors (Tiran) forced him out. (Don't kid yourself his so called retirement was not his plan) . Our concern should be that Mr. Flannery is so indebted to Immelt that he follows in his footsteps and continues down the same path. Anyone can come and cut cost... were the best in the world at it right down to the shop floor. The problem is at some point the well is dry and your growth engine is stalled. We call ourselves a US company but most of the pain in all this is being felt by the US employees. You can see it in all the surveys our peers around the world think GE is terrific-- why because they haven't felt the pain. The most hypocritical part is GE calls themselves a US company but does everything they can to avoid paying US taxes... Mr. Flannery--- here is an idea why don't you move the entire company to Switzerland that way you could avoid all the millions of dollars we're paying expats to skirt the law and call it our Power Services headquarters. My advice which I'm sure is perceived as just another ignorant disgruntled employee is: 1. Let Jeff go...we don't need to see his name anymore. 2. Start acting like company that cares about our customers (For real-- not just on paper). 3. Start treating your people like your greatest asset instead of a discretionary cost 4. Stay out of politics 5. Stand on your own two feet ( get rid of the cronies at Corporate ) and put people in place that care about the company vs. themselves and JEFF!

All Ge knows how to do is cut. Should have re-organized a long time ago and financial experience will not cut it for gas turbine. We need a very experienced engineer with a doctors degree to call the shots. Without that the only plan Ge can have is to cut. Nothing to look forward to and the place is making me sick and from what I can see, everybody else is getting sick too.

"Temporary layoff"

LOL! Just another of those misleading corporate terms they feed the media to cover layoffs. Good luck finding another job! Have you checked "Latest Posts"? Everyone is laying off, this isn't just a GE thing. It's a major downturn in the economy.

With Warren Buffet dumping his entire GE investment of $315 Million my guess layoff numbers will have to increase.