A pitiful shadow of the company that once was...
I worked for GE when an engineer was not some computer twinkie and the company was not afraid to take on builders of the worlds largest electrical goods, like locomotives and power transformers bigger than your house and jet engines that surpassed everyone else's.
Nowadays, the sad remnants of the company have been surpassed in almost every field. Where I live numerous winds farms are up and operating, some almost visible from the GE plant that just closed and sold off all the equipment. Sadly, GE was a dollar short and years behind while the Vestas turbines were installed, hundreds of them.
The financial division of the company still deludes itself by thinking that their gambling activities are supporting the phony bottom line of 'profits'. Looks to almost anyone with any sense as a giant Ponzi scheme and the idiots in the stock market seem to be finally getting it. The new IT center is just a sop to the financial lads who can't see the cliff approaching.
Until more companies in the US come to their senses and start making all kinds of stuff here, we will soon be having Mandarin as our language of choice. Bits, bytes and all that are useful but ephemeral tools, not the real enduring products this country built its culture on.
Joe
