Posted on 06/20/2018 7:56:38 AM PDT by Red Badger
Amen. We used to joke when they changed the name of the Personnel department to the dehumanizing and impersonal "Human Resources" that they should have just gone all in and called it "Carbon Based Unit Control". Engineers come up with stuff like that.
“the new guy undid his predecessor’s plan and implemented his own.”
the thing i found out about ignorant/incompetent managers is that they focused on what they knew (or thought they knew) and ignored everything else.
For example, if a newly promoted manager to a technical division was big on team-building, then he or she would spend all of their energy on arranging team-building “exercises”, dragging everyone else away from their primary duties to waste time on such pointless activities ... pretty much everything else going on in the division was beside the point ...
Well our children may live to see “Artificial Intelligence Resources” Departments replacing “Human Resources”.
Paint the robots brown or black and the Affirmative Action problem is solved. :-)
Yes, we did our fair share of those silly things.
The big problem at GE was that they did not promote from within the division, they brought in people from other divisions that were clueless about their new assignment.
Reinventing the wheel every couple of years.
Saw that happen a few times, which is why I dropped GE as a vendor.
Also saw they try to royally screw me so they were #4 in sales.
Right! Lol. It’s a big world isn’t it.
Forgot to add.
Also went through a Six Sigma exercise. Saw a profitable, if commodity heavy company get gutted. Funny thing is the consultants hired for six sig kept telling me “They are not doing this because of us, they are just using us as the excuse”.
Left two years ago. Miss the old place, but most still there tell me that I made the smart move. Now, corporate is going through another round of layoffs hoping that THIS time they save enough money to make up for all the experience they just handed the competition.
You know I didn’t even address that relationship. Jack even changed relationships between vendors. A big company like GE or Walmart used six sigma to bludgeon vendors. Truly Destructive. In your case they were the vendor you were the client. I can’t imagine having to interface with them. Look at CAT, Cummins or Home Depot you pick. Disaster.
I was buying a common consumable item (Ultra-filtration filter). The rep told me.
1. They had stopped making that style
2. Everyone else had
3. The only thing I could to is either sign a multimillion dollar contract with them or replace all three systems.
I went to a competitor and sourced the membranes. GE rep then came back and said that if I didn’t sign the contract, he would be fired and his family homeless. Signed with the other vendor anyway.
GE builds Engines in Cincinnati, Oh...they sold their Appliances to Haier...
RE: GE builds Engines in Cincinnati, Oh...they sold their Appliances to Haier...
Thanks. Does the lighting division manufacture here or overseas?
How about their Medical Equipment Division do they make them here?
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