{"id":198946,"date":"2007-09-26T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/26\/ge-transportation-systems-is-testing-ground-for-executives\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T05:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T10:16:00","slug":"ge-transportation-systems-is-testing-ground-for-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/26\/ge-transportation-systems-is-testing-ground-for-executives\/","title":{"rendered":"GE Transportation Systems is Testing Ground for Executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that GE wants to give their executives a bit of hands on experience with manufacturing, so they <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2007\/09\/24\/news\/companies\/ge_transportation.fortune\/index.htm?postversion=2007092511\">send them to GE Transportation Systems in Erie, Pa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I find it interesting because I worked there for two years.  It was interesting work, I got paid to watch them smack two locomotives together at about 3 mph (Uncle Fester, eat your heart out), but Erie sucks wet farts from dead pigeons.<\/p>\n<p>When I was there, Jack Welch was doing his level best to kill the place, because he personally hated the local head of the union, Jimmy Nelson, and now it&#8217;s the hot place for corporate climbers.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, Bob Nardelli, of Home Depot infamy was head of GETS for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I was lead engineer on the blower cab for the AC6000, among other things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that GE wants to give their executives a bit of hands on experience with manufacturing, so they send them to GE Transportation Systems in Erie, Pa. I find it interesting because I worked there for two years. It was interesting work, I got paid to watch them smack two locomotives together at about &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1005,1035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-business","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}