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[Dien Rice]

GE has a problem attracting young engineers to work for them. Give the choice, it seems most of them would rather work for companies like Google or Facebook.

When GE was a startup, the company could have hired these young jobseekers' great-great-grandparents!

So how is GE attracting these young millenial engineers?
Are they doing more advertising?
Or perhaps reaching out through a Facebook page?
Or offering employees free food in GE cafeterias (like Google and Facebook do)?

Instead, one of the approaches GE has taken is producing a new hot sauce!



They call it "10^32 K" - which physicists call the "Planck temperature." It is the temperature at which all matter, and actually, all physics, breaks down. ("K" stands for "Kelvin," another unit of temperature which scientists like to use).

(10^32 can also be written as a 1 with 32 zeroes after it, or 100000000000000000000000000000000 degrees!)

Will the hot sauce gambit work for attracting millenials to work for GE? I have no idea!

GE Makes Its Own Hot Sauce to Attract Millennial Engineers
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/274608

GE is also trying to attract millenials by publishing science fiction stories...

Stories by GE
https://www.wattpad.com/user/GeneralElectric

I could be wrong, but I think the free food approach (like Google and Facebook offer) always works!

Best wishes,

Dien

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

GE has a problem attracting young engineers to work for them. Give the choice, it seems most of them would rather work for companies like Google or Facebook.

When GE was a startup, the company could have hired these young jobseekers' great-great-grandparents!

So how is GE attracting these young millenial engineers?
Are they doing more advertising?
Or perhaps reaching out through a Facebook page?
Or offering employees free food in GE cafeterias (like Google and Facebook do)?

Instead, one of the approaches GE has taken is producing a new hot sauce!



They call it "10^32 K" - which physicists call the "Planck temperature." It is the temperature at which all matter, and actually, all physics, breaks down. ("K" stands for "Kelvin," another unit of temperature which scientists like to use).

(10^32 can also be written as a 1 with 32 zeroes after it, or 100000000000000000000000000000000 degrees!)

Will the hot sauce gambit work for attracting millenials to work for GE? I have no idea!

GE Makes Its Own Hot Sauce to Attract Millennial Engineers
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/274608

GE is also trying to attract millenials by publishing science fiction stories...

Stories by GE
https://www.wattpad.com/user/GeneralElectric

I could be wrong, but I think the free food approach (like Google and Facebook offer) always works!

Best wishes,

Dien

Dien,

At the time, 1950's, working at the GE plant in Schenectady NY was one of the best jobs a person could have. My mother worked there but quit.

Why?

She was an entrepreneur at heart. She got her hairdresser's (the term then) license and opened her own shop. Made more money in a week than she did in a month at GE.

Moral of the story? I'll let the reader fill in that blank what with all the super posts by you, Gordon, Glenn, Ron and others on this forum.

OG&E opened an oil and gas research center right across the street from a 2 year science and math high school here in Oklahoma City. They have the students come to the research center and do internships and projects. About a third of these students go on to be engineers.

Mack