Thread regarding General Electric Co. layoffs

Gutted out expertise, lack of knowledge is now killing GE Power.

Turbine repair and design issues we knew about in 1960s and 1970s are forgotten and we are making the same mistakes that are very costly. Like below, we hear that we have never seen this failure problem before, yet everyone who really knows the business and has left knows all about these problems. 80% of the problems we have today with bad designs on the TIL Technical Information List we knew about fixed decades ago. Now we are having the same very expensive problems we once fixed decades ago.

GE is a mess now because of gutted out knowledge base and inept manages with little product knowledge

If you can flip burgers any hamburger joint will hire you.

Where do I find good recruiters in the Albany area?

The GE decline became evident to me back in early 2016, where I began a frugal hedge to what I thought were BIG changes to come. I had no idea what the future at GE personally, but there was no denying the constant re-orgs, leadership hypocrisy, empty rhetoric, right hand does not know what the left hand does, not too mention overwhelming GE propaganda (emails, communication) onslaught that hardly matched what I was seeing internally.

Very glad to be out of there now. I truly feel for those who are worried about "is it my turn" for layoffs. For those who are on the fence, please do yourself a favor and update your resume and look at other opportunities. There is better life after GE!

Terminal decline is the new normal for GE.

@1hnf I'm seeing the results of this when the parts come to us earlier than planned in Repair. When I talk to the component owners in design, they are always clueless about the well known and documented past experiences with the same issue. One insisted the company had never seen this problem before, even after I gave him a copy of an old typewriter-composed document summarizing the issue and its mitigation from the 1960s. I think it is too late at this point for GE to learn from its mistakes. We are doomed to utter and complete failure.

GE Research Lab as it was called used to have managers that were world class scientists that were often famous.

WOW - Now inexperienced wanna bees with no experience, only bloated cost structure

Even in non production facilities like GRC Niskayuna, they're adding new layers of management to cover for the inept managers in the shops. My manager has a management textbook on his desk. Apparently its just a prop, I'm sure he's never read it. Hoping they do something stupid, like offer a SERO or more VRIP's. I know that's wishful thinking, but one can hope.

Our last manager's claim to fame was a six sigma black belt with no knowledge of what our design group did. It takes around 3-5 years doing the work just to become proficient and develop the judgment, know the product history required to avoid and fix problems.

He would often try to tell us what to do that made no sense based on no knowledge or simplistic view of the product. and showed little interest about what the group did except for going to meetings and presenting charts and graphs that made him look good. Most of it was pathetic BS to anyone who knew what they were doing. We were told we weren't allowed to use our experience, like avoiding problems we knew about in detail from the 1950's and 1970's that were coming back into the product line because of lack of knowledge. everything had to be six sigma, not experience even though these issues were well known historical engineering facts and results of engineering studies decades ago. Now we see many issues we knew about being redesigned into the turbines and becoming fleet issues again. Its so pathetic and frustrating

The older experts left and retired early and then he was promoted after staying just 18 months.

This is what GE is today instead of having real technical leaders

GE now is bloated with managers instead of experts who do the work.

This is why GE Power cant make money anymore despite $7.41 Billion in sales.

There will be wave after wave of across the board lay offs that will not fix the business.

In my 25 plus years at GE, I have never seen anything like this.

GE used to be a top notch technical powerhouse, instead of gutted out management flop house

I've started cutting way back on spending too, for the eventual cut. I've been sending out updated resumes and working with a couple of recruiters as well.

This isn't normal or temporary. Upper management STILL isn't getting it. My group JUST ADDED two new upper managers (one's an EB, the other is just an SPB, but still). They talk about the vertical and the horizontal and we have five different managers that we either report to directly or by dotted line PLUS there are four different "special project" teams that are working on the same stuff....it's stupid, wasteful and unnecessary.