I thankfully left before GE completely falling on its face. After working for GE during the last 17 years, I can't say I am surprised. Chaos has been building over the previous 17 years within IT. Countless re-orgs, management changes, acceptable work location policies (remote or specific offices). Always with the promise that things were going to be different or better each time around. All we got was the next smooth talking executive that said they were going to fix what is broken and they were listening! Chris Drumgoole was just the latest blowhard executive that came in promising the employees a change and better times. I thought when he came in things would be different, but in the end, he was the same as everyone else. We had layoffs based on location only and nothing to do with performance or reviews. Its a slap in the face when you told how vital performance and yearly reviews are for years and then they layoff people strictly on where they worked. I could go on and on about how leadership and HR screwed people over while telling everyone everything was going to get better. Chris Drumgoole and all the leaders he put in place need to go. When you have people that move from a mid-level manager to a director to then a VP within a year, that should give you an idea how favoritism plays a role. GE will not change because the people that caused the problem are still calling the shots. Only the little people that had nothing to do with horrible decisions leadership made are the ones that are being let go.
Brought over from @QoCrfys-4kfy.