Close to 2 years of harassment by management and upper management because they ran this company into the ground. It is not the blue collar it’s the white collar who created this mess. Now the arrogance and incompetents of this management staff is under fear of losing their job. They treat the GE blue collar employees like we owe them something. Soon Flannery will close and sell many plants and this harassment will end. GE Power is washed up! Outdated product, engineers who know next to nothing. Not a great company anymore!
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1dfe No one but no one predicted that renewables would grow so quickly and displace gas fired turbines rather than coal. No one. Not you. Not them.
@RZrKfWA-1umn we need more people like you in management (SINCERITY)
@RZrKfWA-kie are you kidding me? I am a white collar, and my job is to predict where the market will be in the next 10 years. That is white collar job and thats the reason they are paid millions. Take on consideration disruptive technology, new markets, mature markets that is the freaking job JI and Yes guys should have done. If you dont have this kind of people, no company would survive more than 10 years.
GE management screwed up acquisitions, Digital, and Management itself when they relied on arrogant bunch of kids (CAS people)
Now that's funny.
It's funny in a sick way that the harassment often causes the better people to leave. The really mediocre ones often hang on like leeches for the severance package. I know because I am one of them.
Harassment appears to just be part of management’s plan to get people to quit. It helps them not have to pay layoff benefits and even helps reduce pension liabilities when someone with a pension leaves. It even helps them lower labor costs at two tier labor sites as they can hire temp replacements or a new person at a much lower rate than that of the top scale people.
In the end only the execs with their fat bonuses benefit when people quit.
-ias,
By "many employees", you must have been talking about Jeff I., Jeff B., and Stevie B., correct? The Gas Turbine sales plan is looking 2 years out. To be surprised by the low sales at the end of a quarter is obviously a result of deliberate laziness and refusal to do the job.
-ias
The job is ok. It's a business arrangement whereby GE purchases my skills and time for money and benefits. You're not doing me any favors you arrogant jerk. If parasites like you would go to prison or out to the shop floor where you belong, the company would be much much better off.
Be part of the solution and not part of the problem. It’s not that hard, just do your job and follow the rules. Things will turn around.
Venting is one thing but deliberate laziness and refusal to do the job will only result in reduction and dismissal.
Many employees understand the times, and realize the great job they have. Have you forgotten that?
Trian Investments has one of theirs on the Board. And we all know what rolls downhill.
You are correct it is inhuman.
Get it through your thick skulls... leadership does not view you as a human. You are a cost and a machine to execute a process. If your part of the giant process is no longer needed for lack of sales or new automation or someone else to do what you do for lower cost, you will be eliminated. Your cost will be viewed as upside to the financials.
If customers aren't wearing out their old turbines then it doesn't matter who the good guys are. It just doesn't matter.
It's all the CAS branded executives: more like brown collar! All those butt holes they like to sniff.
No, its not the white collar workers in general that are the problem. Most engineers are cool. It is the arrogant executive band employees who are the real problem.
@kie - don't be dillusional. Yes the downturn in gas turbine market does have something to do with this. But GE's problems and mistakes are systemic and go far beyond that. The management (at all levels including engineering) at GE Power in particular is some of the worst out of any company in the industry. My manager is a perfect example of a bad manager....someone who knew very little of what was involved in the work her own group was doing. Upper management did not foresee this market shift, when others did, and stupidly bought Alstom and all the problems that came along with it. Stop saying this all about increased interest in renewables and less interest in gas turbines. Yes that's part of it but only one piece of a much bigger perfect storm. There are most definitely people to blame here.
Everyone has the right to leave. Sounds like a small minded person who blames everyone else. Snowflake.
Great response!
The white collar didn't create this mess either. Customers simply don't want to fire gas turbines anymore. That's not your fault. That's not their fault. It's not about you. Grow up.