Being a disciple of "Jack 'quarterly numbers have to be met' Welch" would explain alot. Several years back, there was someone on this board raving about Jack Welch which I thought was BS. Back, in the early 90s, they came out new tech for their refrigerators. Stupid me bought one, The motor lasted about 3 years. What a lemon and they soon discarded that technology. Since then I stopped buying GE products and or buy-in to blowhard Jack.