All affected this morning. It's a literal carnage. Much broader and deeper than any of us predicted. This might be a fatal blow to the org - not sure who'll do all the work now. All hope is lost. I survived today but will not be sticking with GE any longer. A lot of us have skills that are not company or industry dependent, a massive outflow of skills is to follow.
I am sorry it ends ends way.
Anymore detail on this? Was it just Michigan impacted? What about Cincinnati?
Does this mean all that GEIX and VDC stuff are totally toast and unmanaged now?
I mean, more than they were before?
This is in Van Buren Michigan office as well. Public Cloud, Brilliant Factory, Miscellaneous Coretech, and predix engineering staff laid off. Whole teams were laid off this morning in Michigan. At least 125-150 were affected today, not counting the voluntary retirement buy outs that happened last month at this office.
Is this SanRamone only? Are you talking 50 or 500 people let go?
That's because GE leadership comes from within. It's pure arrogance. We studied GE in graduate school this year. What a mess. Leadership can't get out of their own way. Too large. Reorganizations in 2002, 2005 and 2008 reduced the number from 12 to 5 divisions. In 2010 and 2012 increased number of divisions to 10. Selling off assets left and right and a leader who told senior management “the business model that can help you hasn’t been written yet.”
What a joke. Actually, it's pathetic.
How many and what locations? It was only a matter of time before GE realized that much of this work would need to be done in a partnership type arrangement (ie, with Amazon, Apple, etc). Not criticizing any of the skilled positions...we just don’t have the leadership or infrastructure to do it all. It was all just a wet dream of Immelt’s that he’d be the next Bezos or Steve Jobs.
Sorry about the typo - it's Applications not Appslications