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I am sooo gay. There, i said it!

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RaKO

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Yes. Today I found out that I will have a internship this summer at a Foutune 500 company. I am so HAPPY (gay)

 


<< Bozo..Why did you leave? Did you like it? What did you do. Sorry bout all the q's >>


Well, each component is run like an independent company so things differ from division to division. I really enjoyed it until the last year - they really got into their quality initiatives, etc., and many managers went overboard with it trying to look good to their bosses. It got to where all that really mattered on your performance review was the number of quality classes you attended, the number of quality projects you participated in or led, etc. Seemed like they didn't really care about how well you did your job, just though you played the quality game.

Another problem is that IT management is just a jumping block for many managers and IT V.P.'s - they stay awhile and try to impress people back at corporate in order to get promoted to a bigger GE component. As soon as you get a good working relationship with one, they trust your decisions, etc., they jump ship. Gets annoying afterwhile.

Add the fact that I was the only IT person left from 'way back', I was the one who had to support the old legacy systems - AS/400's, the rogue 200 or so OS/2 machines, etc. Got burned out and needed a change.

That being said, it really was a great company - amazing vision and leadership at the top levels, etc. Unfortunately, too many yahoo's in middle management showed up the last year or so.
 
Hey cool, I scored an internship there last year too. Waukesha right? I ended up taking another offer instead but it was a tough decision since GE Med systems is a good division. The only problem I had with it was that most if not all of the projects boiled down to basic C++/Web programming, which is cool if you're CS but as an EE, I wasnt too thrilled about it. 😛 I had a couple of friends that interned there and they had a good time since it's so close to Milwaulkee (sp?).

Good luck with it, and if there's one piece of advice I can offer it is to grab your project AS SOON as they send out the e-mail notifying you that the positions are posted on the web. If you wait too long all the good ones will get taken. And make sure you do good work there, as these internships are your REAL job interview for a full-time position.
 
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