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What the Hell Happened at General Electric?
Fortune ^ | 05/25/2018 | Geoff Colvin

Posted on 05/25/2018 9:03:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind
A few days ago, the locomotive operation of GE Transportation was OK'd to be merged/taken over by Wabtec (Wab = Westinghouse Air Brake). It will be a semi-convoluted deal, with GE retaining a percentage of the new company.

Not that long ago, people would have thought GE was nuts to exit the market.

41 posted on 05/25/2018 10:46:37 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: unread

GE Appliances is a global company. Many products are imported from Mexico and China, among other places. Much, however, is made in the US; among them are refrigerators, dishwashers, laundry products, and hotel room air conditioners. There are several plants in the US including TN, AL, NC, and 5 plants at Appliance Park in Louisville, KY.

EP


42 posted on 05/25/2018 10:51:14 AM PDT by Emerging Patriot
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To: unread

Toyota makes trucks in Texas.


43 posted on 05/25/2018 10:55:29 AM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost

Good to know but my junk GE frig was bought several+ years before that.

Get this! The shelves in the freezer kept falling out of the grooves.
Why? Because the freezer shelves were too small for the allocated space.
If they couldn’t size the shelves correctly what else did they engineer wrong.

I soon found out!!!!!!!!


44 posted on 05/25/2018 11:04:49 AM PDT by Original Lurker
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Aren’t f-150’s made in Kansas City and Dearborn?


45 posted on 05/25/2018 11:19:29 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: jalisco555

You are correct! Obumbler leaving office took away a the fascist type relationship with GE and the fawning government. GE couldn’t build a reliable appliance to save them out of hell at this point.


46 posted on 05/25/2018 11:38:19 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: SeekAndFind

Jeff Immeldt happened, is what. He wrecked the company.


47 posted on 05/25/2018 12:03:12 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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Cost me plenty I’m pized at him. Typical elitist.


48 posted on 05/25/2018 1:13:15 PM PDT by Soros Billions (Gore is a pussy, Hillary : There's a man for ya)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

#10 and firing 10% of the people in each dept just because.


49 posted on 05/25/2018 3:48:44 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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"Aren’t f-150’s made in Kansas City and Dearborn?"

Well hmmmm… I guess I stand corrected all the way around... Thanks to all...

:(

50 posted on 05/25/2018 4:59:28 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Campion

was this while the cEO was on Obama’s “boost the US economy” advisory board?


51 posted on 05/25/2018 5:05:23 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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“Firing bottom 10% every year, then hiring them back as consultants.”

That’s not exactly how it worked. It was explained as cut from the bottom and add to the top. Replace the dead wood on a continual basis. Once gone they were NOT hired as consultants. It was a really brutal process and was very hard on employees and managers. Everyone knew good people who got canned for having 1 or 2 bad years and HATED IT. Immelt was actually the one who ended it.


52 posted on 09/09/2018 7:01:25 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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