"Positions will be eliminated across our various locations and business units. We regret the loss of any jobs but in the current economic climate we need to make tough decisions that are prudent and put the safety of the company first,"
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I am thinking it is a presentation on the most current re org that will be implemented badly.

A presentation? Is it a Powerpoint of something that currently doesn't exist or can't be made to work right? HAHAHAHAAA

I have a presentation next week, and I am on the look for such information

To your parole officer, no doubt.

Ge should remember the oath, Thou shall not harm in medicine. Their front page spread on what their CT scanners are doing to patients because they have developed the software in such a way that the dose is driven up significantly (over 700mA is used at doses that cause stochastic effects. Customers are not taught this and are using the systems improperly and causing more issues to that patients who are already sick

I think the 300 employees includes those at risk in Gloucester.

Its the old sales dictum, "got to have a top, to get to the bottom line."

In GE's constant pursuit of making the numbers they have forgotten that it takes people to makes those numbers and with that their lives are intertwined, cannot have without the other.

Employees informed that 300 jobs at risk at the Grove Centre. Details to follow in due course.

GE Healthcare DI, laid me off after 7 yrs and a recruit/transfer to a butt-hole of a place called Yakima. Not surprised after a 3rd FE was brought in that I was looking for a job, got to have that good-ole boys network just right. My EMS were good the whole time, but I also said that I was willing to transfer every year, so they gave me one, a transfer out of GE. Lost most of my 401k and cashed-in whats left.

Can anyone enlighten us on the current situation at the Grove Centre, Amersham? Any further layoffs in the pipeline?

Wow Li. This is going on in the US as well. There is a moral abscence of FDA process and a complete lack of management and leadership

It's like that in the UK too

A total decay.

Rock on !

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Be more layoffs at the Grove Center soon if isotope production is moved to Arlington Heights.
TRC was the first and the best but is being butt-'ked by the Americans to meet a short-term bottom-line. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Can anyone advice further regards to this layoff? I will be offered a position for Healthcare IT in Asia. If there's layoff, why are they hiring?

Ten Signs of a Fear-Based Workplace...how many of these can you check off the list...
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Ten-Signs-of-a-FearBased-bizwk-1029763761....

What is amazing to observe in my GEHC P&L is the apathy.

Nobody gives a shit, no one! I'm speaking of the entire organization, spanning a continent!

The disconnect from those in upper management and the realities of the organization are immense. Maybe they all need to go to a real business school were they might teach if you don’t know a god dam thing about a business, you probably shouldn’t be running it.

Not these guys, they’ll take a deep dive into a seaspool if someone tells them to.

you have that right. GE has made corporate serial killers and when they leave GE they go to another company and do the same thing

The really sad thing is that the habits and poor management practices learned at GE are taken to other companies when a GE manager finally leaves. People shoiuld learn not to hire anyone who has ever been part of a GE Healthcare management team!

This posting is so true. GE has become the joke of competitors and customers. Their numbers prove it. They have lost so much market share in healthcare and they do not care

GE Healthcare is not a productive environment. It's short-sighted and aligned to making deadlines over instilling true quality in its products. It has the good ole boys club mentality and does nothing to promote females from within. If you're a yes man, you have an excellent chance at making it up the corporate ladder. Strong-willed and opinionated personnel are not wanted and will most likely succeed elsewhere. More likely than not, a manager at GE has no knowledge of the area he/she is supervising so be prepared to be more of an expert than your boss in your functional area.

They're killing their real talent and do nothing productive to improve their poorer than poor morale. In larger markets, GE is no longer seen as necessarily a good thing to have on your resume. And, as a former employee, I can emphatically state that their benefits out and out suck. Nothing about this company is competitive - not atmosphere, benefits, or pay.

I can definitely relate to this one. As a women with a stellar track record with GE and an MBA, I was told by one Regional VP that "you are just like my wife, you need to do what you are told if you want to get to get taken care of." The manager who hired me didn't have the balls or spine to stand up for me, he passed me to another team in a different region and it was his "job to get rid of me." I would love to name the names because those same managers still work at GE. I wonder if their wives know they suck dick on the side to get ahead and play in the sandbox. Hopefully, what comes around goes around and eventually they will be seen for the spineless assholes they are.

GE Healthcare Barrington IL. has a new mascot to help improve employee morale. It is a stuffed animal dragon called Figment. Such as figment of your imagination. Figment's picture is taken around the office, such as by the coffee maker or by the copier. An email is than sent out as a news flash that figment has been spotted in the office. When I hear things like this I am reminded why I left. Why not put the effort into bringing out quality products that have the features customers want? Instead of something like this that nobody in their right mind thinks is productive, but will not dare state in public.

I agree with the previous poster. Relative ranking systems destroy morale over time. There is a lot of talk of "teamwork", but the sad truth is that you often benefit when your teammates suffer. It simply cannot be the case that a whole group is ranked well; that is not allowed. It is the exact opposite of what teamwork is supposed to be.

People also figure out pretty quickly that sooner of later they will probably be the sacrificial lamb. All it takes is a manager that doesn't like you (you get a new one about every 18-24 months) or a project that you worked on not going well, regardless of actual fault.

Working at GE is like dating someone who has cheated in all of their previous relationships. It can be fun for a while, but sooner or later they will cheat on you too.

A lot of GEHC's problems can be ascribed to its system of forced-ranking with the accompanying sacking of the lowest graded. Jack Welch' nonsense. The statistics are flawed. There may be some argument to use it after a take-over, to clear the dead-wood and to instil healthy fear in employees. But it is counter-productive as a routine management tool.
It is not workers who have low markings who need firing. Rather, their manager......

So GE are moving manufacturing to India, oh well I so hope that they finally close Uppsala as that is one major black hole that nobody has ever looked at.....

GE Healthcare heads what are your doing. GE enterprise solutions going to be loss to the company especially IDX deal so GM in engineering are sleeping without caring for it. You want to go for it or layoff them.

no, they have blown up the sales force. There are reps 80% of the force will be layed off in August. GEHC feels they get 80% of their business from 20% of their customers. So they are only having reps cover the top tier hospitals. They have hired an entire new Sales force (old Fusion model) to do the rest. The GE reps who think they are safe are not. IF they do not already have a job offer come Aug they are out of a job. This will equate to yet more additional decrease in market share for GE. No Focus, no leadership. But maybe that is the goal to make GEHC so devalued they dump it

There is no leadership at GE. That is why they are in the position they are in with the FDA, lack of competitive offerings, etc. They have made their own bed and enjoy being evil

Thought GE had sold off the light bulb and household appliance businesses. Aircraft engines (based on a Rolls Royce UK design) are good though.

Hey, they are still good at manufacturing light bulbs and 1930 X-ray tube technology. And large kitchen appliances.

Given the current state in the economy I can't see who GE forgot about their people and more importantly their customers. In a time where laid off workers can't even get short term medical insurance, I can't see how they plan to bounce out of this funk. To come out of this recession strongly they need new leadership at the top.

my experience of GE was also poor having worked in a company for 12 years always had positive reviews/EMS, I found that only bullies moved on. Experience and knowledge often ignored for promotion replaced with a company bully with a direct dial to a HR manager who also was a bully. If I didn't tow the company line poor reviews where implied and free thinking and speaking up was frowned upon.

Interesting what is happening right now with Omniscan. GE dropped the libel suit

refer to link http://www.propublica.org/feature/ges-own-safety-team-urged-company-to-r...

Well how sad it is to say, I actually work for the lifesciences business currently and it's a complete shambles. We have no stratergy apart from sell chromatography instruments with the low discount until it gets toward the last few weeks of the quarter then it's give it away to try and make the sale. Moral is low and most people want to leave. The future has to be better than this!

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Too political.....they should work for the government.

they must stop asking the executives for their thoughts. You will never get the answers you need when asking those that tell you what you want to hear

the business week article says it all. GE has lost its way

I am not to sure what it is like in the other business with Healthcare, but in Lifesciences there has been a lot of change and turn over of staff in the last 6 months. I have seen a lot of good people go and sadly not replaced

The whole company is bleeding, Why? The world changed and GE did not. Ge thought they would create the best leaders because they have Crotonville. They thought there would be 20 Jack Welchs. Big mistake. The golden era is gone because too much focus on EHS, finance, compliance and politics. They simply forgot the 2 most important things: customers and people.

The result is here, stocks under $20s and brand value 33 % down in 2 years. Nobody talks that the company used to be number 1 brand and now it's number 9. Wake up Immelt before it's too late!!

http://brandz.ogilvyeditions.com/top100/

No change as I'm led to believe their still hemorrhaging staff especially within Europe

Their business model does not match the biotech.

So are all things starting to settle down now with GE?

Having worked for GE Healthcare for a few years...I would have to agree. Our HR Team and business leader was not professional,they were sexist and racist. often drunk and loud and irrational. Who is ever going to say anything because they are tied in to corp HR ...and people did not want to jepordize their future. Meantime this has gone on for years and nobody trusts them or respects them and the company just continues to preset this picture of non tolerance?? Meantime if you are truely honest and make waves you will be fired or layed off? I am glad I left and will never return. This place needs a real shake up from top to bottom....its amazing that there is absolutley no accountability for leaders or HR here? In my opinion....
I wish amersham could escape this hell.it's certainly not the same.

Mary201
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Can anyone tell me who the HR person is for the Amersham office. Typically no one here seems to know!