GE The Job Killer !

[Dogman]

I have a personal note to this.

My last very good job was with a company called Caddx that made security systems, very good systems.

As we grew, we merged with another co. ? trying to remember their name..


But our keyboards and panels were sold under the name of ranger first and then we went to hybrid thru hole and surface mount tech.

That was the NX series that is still sold today.

Then GE bought us, which was because they wanted to get into the European market and they shut them out, but our sales were strong there also in South Africa and south america. We were going head to head with honeywell at the time.

They improved many things and imposed ridiculous safety standards, then closed us down and move the equipment to Navojoa Mexico, within 2 years..

The reason?

For the good of the stockholders...

Sucked !

What it meant was instead of paying 10-18 bucks an hour they could pay someone 4 bucks a day or hour ? I think 4-8 bucks a day, but can not remember. I made 5 trips to mexico moving my equipment and then training a bunch of very hard headed mexicans on how to run them..

The only good thing was I loved the food, couldn't get enough of it, put texmex to shame.

The most recent games they played was down in lufkin TX.

Anyone that has worked in the oil patch knows the name of Lufkin, as in pump jacks and assorted equipment.

GE bought them a few years ago, and had big plans to modernize and expand the foundry.

Yesterday it was announced they are going to close that plant that is older than anyone reading this post, with a job loss of close to 400. When they closed my plant we lost 175 or so jobs plus 3 other plants here in the us.

They got the tech, sold us and moved the jobs ether to Mexico or overseas to china.

Just venting here , abt the meat ball logo branded GE.

Good chance if they buy an American plant they will soon shut it down as soon as the suck the tech out of them.

Everything listed on this link,

That has Nx or Interlogix in its name.

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=nx+security+system


Used to be made in this town, as far as the keyboards and panels go, nx-4, 6 and 8 with expansion boards up to 36 zones and at the time I had a hand making everyone of them, because my job was to repair and program the surface mount and thru hole machines, along with the wave solder systems. Almost 15 years doing it...



Rant off !

Sorta....

I try and not buy anything G.E....

G.E the American job killers !

[Glass]

From experience I concluded that there is no such thing as a free lunch. While you can Rob from Peter to pay Paul, Rob still needs paying.

If you buy up the tech and then move it from a location of high quality to one of low quality something has to give. You might save money in manufacturing but you spend money on support and warranty replacement.

Now while you are saving significant amounts at the point of manufacture, because you can do it in a 3rd world country and pay local wages, your support costs are in the 1st world and run at first world costs. You can only hope they burn everything on maintenance and warranty costs.

I would suspect it is $4 per day they are paying. I know in other countries where low cost manufacturing goes on the costs are something like $10 per week. Mexico might be expensive.

Of course governments do nothing to stop the tech leakage from their nations brains trusts. In the old days there were many restrictions on technology exports. Now it only applies to military and surveillance tech.

Since it became obvious that GE had abandoned innovation and became a bank I've avoided them where I can.

[mick silver]

G E sold it Appliance park in Louisville ky this year ... this is what made GE