Re: Rumor about GE

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

Umm yea okay

"Just Looking" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The only employees at GE likely to know about this would be the ones in
> charge of selling off whole divisions. That would be an elite rare few I
> suspect. Of course there is the chance that there is the odd employee that
> can purchase whole divisions. That would be an even rarer bird I suspect.
>
> "Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:47b61e5c$0$16651$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > "Nomen Nescio" <nobody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:ee8db99d1dfa4b93b654d200de01899f@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > >I heard an interesting tale from a source about GE. The buzz was that
> GE
> > was
> > > >unhappy with its security division and was looking to sell.
> > >
> > > Could very well be.  Jack Welch, the former head of GE, believed that
> > every
> > > GE business unit needed to be first or second in its market, or else
> face
> > > being spun off or closed.  Welch is gone, but that attitude may
persist.
> >
> > Well they would certainly be at least 2nd behind Honeywell
> >
> > I meet with GE people all the time, they've never said anything about
this
> >
> >
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