GE Power Layoff rumors continue throughout the campus of Greenville's Gas Turbine manufacturing plant and engineering. Problems with the latest H Fleet in the field are not helping. Cost cutting measures continue to consume everyone's daily activities. Leadership continues to execute via reactive management strategies rather than sound business management. Another product of sourcing leaders (bean counters) in charge of complex operations. They simply do not have the intuitive management skills required.
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The work environment at GE Greenville is getting more toxic day by day. You can feel the constant tension in the air. The good news is a natural business correction is about to happen. The bad news is a lot of good people will be impacted by the correction. Let's hope GE Leadership has learned from their damaging business culture and that more of them will be impacted by the pending correction than the hard working good people typically impacted.
The Greenville Plant Manager plays on his phone during meetings and ignores what people say. He only wants to spout political catch phrases and GE talking points. Unprofessional profanity flows from his mouth including the "F" word around female workers. If you want to layoff someone, I'd put this guy at the top of the list.
Management has already said there will not be much to do around Christmas this year in Greenville. With cost cutting initiatives being a priority, I doubt GE will keep people on the payroll to do nothing. 2018 is stacking up to be worse than 2017. September is more politically correct for layoffs than the Christmas season. And, we are now past the South Carolina Department of Labor WARN period. This means GE can layoff another 250+ people without having to announce per WARN requirements and minimize conversations and information to the media.
Everybody expected that SAP would be a complete waste of time and money except for the useless bean counter management. When they announced they were doing this, everybody in our conference room put their forehead in their hands in disgust.
And, as if the reorg isn't enough, they've been wasting a huge amount of time and resources on the new and already heavily flawed PowerMax SAP migration. That colossal waste of resources will NOT save this facility.
General Electric in Greenville seems to be committing business suicide. The reorg after reorg after reorg did not work. But guess what their solution is. You guessed it, another reorg. Remember the definition of insanity? Somebody please get rid of the reorg managers before it is too late.
@OJHRodZ-2pau, unfortunately I agree. He needs to chop another $Billion in cost through 2018.
I expect Flannery to cut out gas turbine validation tests when he sees how much it cost.
With sales dropping and cost increasing, the outlook doesn't look good. Most everybody in Greenville is expecting the hammer to fall harder this time.
Unfortunately old new. If rumors were to be indeed true we would have been gone in June. Hoping we can avoid anything more