GE CEO, Jack Welch, who raped and pillaged RCA, dead at 84.

[wa2ise]

New York Times, March 3, 2020 Page B1

Neutron Jack ruined the best job I ever had, at the RCA Sarnoff Labs. I did television R&D there, invented 11 patents in about 5 years, probably would be at 45 patents by now if GE never took over and raped and pillaged RCA. Never bought any GE products since. I realize that GE wouldn't notice this, but would you hire the guy who raped your daughter to mow your lawn?...

[Electronic M]

Atleast you know who to blame(and now have out lived them). The best job I've had so far is slated to end because some corporate bozo (probably in Holland) decided we need to close and consolidate a number of offices to "give us a more green footprint". So fire almost the whole staff of my office which is one of the most profitable business units under it's category and ship our jobs to India.

There are days I start thinking that if I knew someone with a time machine planning to stop Hitler from being born, I'd be tempted to ask them to do the same for some key proponents of green.

[JohnCT]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

New York Times, March 3, 2020 Page B1

Neutron Jack ruined the best job I ever had, at the RCA Sarnoff Labs. I did television R&D there, invented 11 patents in about 5 years, probably would be at 45 patents by now if GE never took over and raped and pillaged RCA. Never bought any GE products since. I realize that GE wouldn't notice this, but would you hire the guy who raped your daughter to mow your lawn?...

Post of the month. Never forgave that SOB.

John

[MIPS]

Not saying nothing bad happened but I sense a liiitle vitriol.

[DavGoodlin]

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[DavGoodlin]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

I was surprised to hear of the cursed acquisition after I got work again at the same GE-RCA-Sony dealer 3 years later in 1984 or 5. It was like hearing Sanyo bought Fisher. Not good!

Funny when the owners started selling Panasonic in 85, mainly because Matsushita made some of GE's chassis along the way then used some lousy caps. That kept us busy fixing rather than buying circuit boards when they were out of warranty, at least the customers appreciated that.

When I started at this store in HS the first time, they also sold Magnavox but stopped in 1985, after NAP began walking away from warranty issues. As always, GE sets are easily serviceable but RCA's Colortrak was better at staying home and not coming back like GE did under warranty- tuners, griplets and one-gun CRTs.

Lastly, RCA factory service had at least an honest rep until those 'hooers at GE cut 'em loose.

[fixmeplease]

The Dodgers beat the Twins in the World Series in 1965 and I still hate them, lol. Sometimes it is appropriate to hold a grudge for decades. I dont blame you at all.

For the record I cant even remember that World Series and I still hate them. Dont even get me started on the teams that beat the Vikings in the Super Bowl, lol

[SpaceAge]

Originally Posted by fixmeplease

The Dodgers beat the Twins in the World Series in 1965 and I still hate them, lol. Sometimes it is appropriate to hold a grudge for decades. I dont blame you at all.

For the record I cant even remember that World Series and I still hate them. Dont even get me started on the teams that beat the Vikings in the Super Bowl, lol

Ain’t nothin’ wrong with hating the Dodgers. Although it is unfortunate they may have had the 2017 World Series stolen by the cheating Astros.

[JohnCT]

Originally Posted by SpaceAge

Ain’t nothin’ wrong with hating the Dodgers. Although it is unfortunate they may have had the 2017 World Series stolen by the cheating Astros.

Hmm.. some would argue that the Dodgers would have been playing the Yankees if the Astros didn't cheat the Yankees out of a WS appearance.

In any case, any team that pitches Kershaw twice in one post season series is begging to lose...

John

[Retspin]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

New York Times, March 3, 2020 Page B1



Neutron Jack ruined the best job I ever had, at the RCA Sarnoff Labs. I did television R&D there, invented 11 patents in about 5 years, probably would be at 45 patents by now if GE never took over and raped and pillaged RCA. Never bought any GE products since. I realize that GE wouldn't notice this, but would you hire the guy who raped your daughter to mow your lawn?...

Maybe he is catching hell from Sarnoff now.

[old_tv_nut]

Welch was the kind of idiot who thinks one management technique applies in all situations - unfortunately also true of many others whose "expertise" is in generalized "management."

His favorite "rank and yank" method of ranking everyone in a department and getting rid of the lowest 10% is applicable only to departments with a group of people doing exactly the same job, like answering customer phone calls. It is absolutely counterproductive in areas where each employee is specialized, like R&D, because it ignores the local managers' on-the-scene knowledge of the worth of each employee's contribution, and cripples their ability to recruit and keep the employees that are most beneficial to the company.

Over the years, I have winessed multiple cases of adoption of the management technique "flavor of the day" and applying it everywhere instead of where appropriate. This tunnel vision worship of one method or another was always detrimental to the company compared to a pragmatic adjustment per situation. Unfortunately, it often resulted in adoption of a new fad after a few years, rather than real consideration of what to do.

I suspect, unfortunately, that many companies have disciples of Welch's special form of incompetence.

[SpaceAge]

Originally Posted by JohnCT

Hmm.. some would argue that the Dodgers would have been playing the Yankees if the Astros didn't cheat the Yankees out of a WS appearance.

In any case, any team that pitches Kershaw twice in one post season series is begging to lose...

John

Yeah we don’t know what would have happened, there’s a million different possible scenarios. But I tend to agree with you... death, taxes, and Kershaw choking in October. That wouldn’t have gone any different, Astros cheating or not.

[Retspin]

I do wonder what RCA would be like today had it not sold out to GE and stayed independent.

[JohnCT]

Originally Posted by SpaceAge

Yeah we don’t know what would have happened, there’s a million different possible scenarios. But I tend to agree with you... death, taxes, and Kershaw choking in October. That wouldn’t have gone any different, Astros cheating or not.

All kidding aside, someone asked me if I thought the Astros would have beat the Dodgers fair and square. I said we'll never know, will we?

John

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Retspin

I do wonder what RCA would be like today had it not sold out to GE and stayed independent.

Given the CED was a financial bleed and RCA wasn't doing too hot before the GE buyout RCA likely would have been bought by a foreign interest sooner or later.