Thread regarding General Electric Co. layoffs

I really hope JF outsource the entire HR department that is Untruthful, Untrustworthy, build a culture of favoritism, privilege, what ever EB wants make it happen. They are responsible for spreading a culture of suppression, divisive, and conscious bias culture.

When I hired into GE (more than a decade ago) the HR rep, as part of the interview, told me many things that I later found out to be untrue. “Personal Days” can be used as vacation if not used otherwise, “Flex Time” was standard company policy, GE policy is no negotiation for vacation time, merit is every 12 months, all relo expense is covered, etc., etc.

After hiring in and being told by my manager that none of it was true, I complained to my HR manager about being misled and she just shrugged...did not even deny it. So, unfortunately, I experienced the sliminess of GE’s HR culture on day 1.

I’ve not interacted with HR since (but might soon!).

She is a truly heroic who survived 38 years, but leaving with so much damage to the employees and company over the years, was responsible for managing performance of all these who took drowned the ship

This is off topic, but screw the diversity bull$it. People should be hired on the merit basis, not any of that AA bcrap. We have an AA person on the floor, and all she does is drinking coffee and gossiping in the break room -- thats the diversity to you.

Since we are talking about HR and SP, let the cat get out of the bag. Diversity is a joke at GE. you never see the color person in the same office or same cube for more then few months or may be a year. It is just a check mark then that person simply is gone. Any color person should not get comfortable and should know she or he is vulnerable and will be gone in months if not a year. This had been a typical HR culture for decades.

Guys this is so heart breaking so many skeletons about HR coming out of the closet. Susan P only knows how to sleep at night for creating a top down culture of Lies, executive privilege firing, employee against employee, fabricating situations, making people uncomfortable. To make things worst, John Flannery lost his credibility for being part of this culture. To build a strong new GE John must replace entire HR department.

I agree with @ntj completely!

Totally agree with @eks. HR at GE is BS. At places like GRC, even more so. If they cannot help you with basic stuff like adding your corporate card to your profile that falls under their purview, then I don't know what they are there for. No wonder we have enormous overhead. Most of their answers are scripted anyway, such as 'this is the GE policy', even if you show the math that an alternative way is more cost effective and efficient. When asked about the thinking behind the said policy, and if it needs to be revisited in light of technological advancements, etc, all you get is a blank faced response. Besides, IT tools do most everything they are responsible for, so I don't see what value they bring. Also, I have noticed them to not respond to your emails, desperately trying to keep things offline.

In my experience of being 10 years with GE, our HR is utterly useless and unhelpful to employees. Every time I asked HR for some help/advice in the past, it was a total waste of time. And when an HR person shows up in our meetings, she only hides behind busswords and tries very hard to pretend that she brings any value to the org's bottom line. I hope it is better in other GE businesses.

These execs are slithering away into retirement with their millions, avoiding any accountability, hoping no one is paying attention. How many hundreds of millions have been committed to the retirement packages of these goons who destroyed GE? God I hope there is an investigation by the SEC. This is criminal!

SP is a horrible person. The way she spins our healthcare as being industry standard, permissive time and then her comments on "everything is on the table, including a pension freeze, but don't worry you will get what you earned up to a point of a freeze", she should be ashamed of herself. I guess she is getting out in time to get a full pension and I'm sure a sweet exit payment. I hope she chokes on that huge dog chain she wore in her last video.

Good riddens superficial and could care less about employees...she will walk away with millions like the rest of them. If you think about it I’m not sure we’re going to generate enough cash to pay off Immelt, Borenstein, Rice, Comstock and Peters. Could be approaching $750MM. Just an absolute travesty.

I had 4 weeks + 2 purchased weks + 3 flexible days under the old system. When we changed to PT, I told my boss I’m still taking the same number, so I still get the 2 extra weeks extra w/out paying for it.

The unlimited vacation policy has been applied as 4 weeks plus holidays in my GE unit ... albeit with a lot of jokes about vacation going away I haven't seen any pressure to take any less than under the old policy. Certain people took unlimited vacation anyway under the old policy, so this put everyone on the same page.

Good news. She always came across as untrustworthy and not authentic.

Happy that she is gone!

Here's the link to the story:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/company-general-electric-company-ge-140751660.html

I can't find it on MyGE or Yammer?

Maybe her hand was forced to do that. Let's not forget that HR are not responsible for directing growth or managing assets and the execution thereof. I don't think HR are responsible for the mess GE are in. Maybe she was trying to reduce costs so fewer jobs might be lost.