Appliance Park stars in GE Super Bowl ad

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[frontaloadotmy]

No sound, x 2; except

the ad for expedia...

 

[112561]

Very impressive, I'm glad they're that active! Thanks for posting these!

 

[supersuds]

If it didn't work, here's a direct link to the article in the Louisville paper.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120201/SPORTS17/302010101/GE-Super-Bowl-2012-commercial

 

[swillis]

I Just Started Working There Jan 9th

They are adding a new water heater line which i am now working on as well as new refrigerator with bottom freezers. I gave up 25 years of sales to work on the assembly line. Just got tired of working with the public.

 

[arbilab]

I've worked the line and the public. There's a reason they're called CUSS-tomers.

It's just short of astonishing that the US is ADDING manufacturing jobs after decades of SHEDDING them. What? Did China raise their export tax?

Neighbor is a longterm airline core employee. He tells me Boeing is having a great deal of trouble keeping its offshore vendors in line. More than it's worth. Why the 787 is a couple years late coming online.

 

[whirlcool]

Are these the $11 per hour, no benefits, no insurance jobs?

 

[mattl]

For me the ad was very disingenuous. If anything it turned me more anti GE that if they did not run the ad.  I've seen all the articles about GE's foreign job creation, and the amount of taxes paid to the US, and one feel good ad is not ever going to change my mind. Corporations are not good citizens no mater how they try to portray themselves.

 

[whirlcool]

Today's GE is not your grandfather's GE, that's for sure!
They lost their social responsibility years ago in the name of profits.

 

[supersuds]

Social responsibility? GE? When?

 I don't want to make this a Dirty Laundry thread, but the "old" GE is the one that saw seven executives go to jail for price fixing (in 1960). Read the link for a laundry list of GE's anti-competitive practices from 1910-1960.

 

Corporate governance aside, I am just happy there are Americans like swillis making appliances in America.

http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_velasquez_busethics_6/38/9874/2527827.cw/index.html

 

[alr2903]

IIRC,  GE received a huge government tax credit to mfr. the "Geotherm" water heater in the U.S.  instead of  somewhere south of the border.  That said,  I am glad there are some U.S.  jobs.  alr

 

 

[qualin]

I think it's encouraging that they are at least bringing some jobs back, realizing that outsourcing isn't always the answer.

My parents had a Eaton Viking Water Heater that was originally installed in 1967 and finally bit the bucket about 4 years ago. So, I think 41 years of service is pretty amazing for a water heater.

If GE can build them like that, they'll have my business.

 

[tolivac]

But----GE has moved their X-Ray equipment division from the US---to CHINA!!Do trust the "GE machines" that would be made there???

 

[qualin]

Not really. I'm not sure why GE moved that section to China, I don't see what kinds of gains they'll get from it.

If anything, I would guess that there is a considerably larger margin on X-Ray machines than washing machines.

So, if anything, I wonder why the opposite hasn't happened, GE moving their washing machine/dryer business to China and leaving the X-Ray machine manufacturing in the US?

After all, when a company sells a $370 plastic tubbed machine, how much margin can there be on that?

 

[combo52]

GE And US Manufacturing

The X-ray equipment is much more complicated and labor intensive to build where as mass produced consumer products are much easier to automate and because of the lower profit margins on consumer products the shipping makes it better to build closer to home. Only a fairly small percentage of large major appliances that we buy here in the US are not assembled here in N America, and most of the ones that are imported from overseas are usually the more expensive models.

 

I am glad that GE is making their heat-pump water here, when I bought my partner a heat-pump water-heater a year ago I bought a Reheem because it was made in Mexico over the GE which was made in China at the time. WE have been very pleased with it and in April it will have been in us for a full year. I checked the annual electrical use for his house and the year before it was in use the monthly bill averaged $240 per month over the full year. It will be interesting to see what the monthly average will be for the past year. I will report back sometime after April.

 

But based on the way it has performed so far I would recommend to anyone that has an electric water heater consider buying one of these, as we can already tell that the savings are noticeable. And as an added benefit it removes one to two gallons of water from the air in the basement per week, but now that the air is dryer in winter it does not pull any moisture out of the air at all, I was worried that it might make already dry winter air drier.

 

[whirlcool]

As for moving the GE Imaging systems division to China and the jet engine manufacturing to Brazil, Jeff Immelt (our Obama Jobs "czar") on the news program 60 minutes said that you take your manufacturing to the places that buy your products.

So based on that statement, I guess we haven't been buying enough GE products.
What about Boeing and Lockheed (miitary products)? They don't use enough GE products?

Link is to the 60 minutes interview.

 

[hunter]

tax

AFAIK, the new tax on medical products from the affordable care act or whatever it is called helped to cinch moving the production.

What I thought was so funny was the news folks said 'oh there are no job losses.' Well, GE had X headcount before and X headcount after but more of X is abroad than in the US.

Honestly we have the best news hacks money can buy.