Thread regarding General Electric Co. layoffs

Cheaper is better mindset continues to be the predominant culture

Once upon a time, GE products were known for quality. QUALITY is why people bought GE products. Years of lean manufacturing and Crotonville principles degraded product quality so much GE has achieved a horrible reputation forever. Any product division that reduces acceptable quality levels are eventually sold or disbanded. Plants are closed. Cheaper is better mindset continues to be the predominant culture. Reduction in upper management salaries are not popular cost savings considerations. Elimination of hard working employees is celebrated as moving forward with “difficult decisions “. GE currently tries to blame the customer first. Get a magnifying glass and read the fine print in any GE contract. Customers need to be very careful when considering any GE product. Stay away from significant investments like gas turbines or transformers. Of course GE appliances is no longer an American company. The rest of GE junk will follow the same fate.

Perfectly stated, @ZQi3Cmc-6bex.

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Culp said it best we’re all about the internal numbers certainly not about customers...any sane person knows where that eventually leads.

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Our gas turbines are now junk. Large pieces of junk. Customers that buy are either forced to purchase by governments or are too dumb to know better.

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We haven't been known for quality outside of Croutonville's courses making that assertion.

Most customers who have had any experience with our former Appliances business (which still represents us under our trademark despite being owned by China) have negative things to say about our quality. Those with technical background often mention our "Planned Obsolescence" engineering that was built into those consumer products, and by their assumption, everything else we make.

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We haven't been known for quality for a long, long time now.

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