What a bunch of jerks! That's so horrible of them. It's like, "Thanks for all your IP over these 5 major projects... we don't need you anymore, but uh, sometime in the next 5 years we'll be incrementally hiring if you want to come back...probably at the same rate you started...." Terrible company. I know they're important to us (maybe), but I think they're just awful, and am really glad we have Honeywell to balance/back us up because I don't trust GE in the least.