### Comment:
An employee of GE - a buyer of some sorts - came to visit my employer a few years ago. Bought some industrial machinery. When asked about his budget he said he doesn’t have a budget and GE allows him to buy whatever the hell he wants. He spends a ton of money on the best “stuff” (industrial machinery to office supplies) he could find. He may have been exaggerating but he seemed to find it funny. GE needs to get its act together. Budgets matter. I don’t want it to die either.

### REPLY:
Nahh, GE probably fired this guy and more people like him and that's why the company is shit right now.  
  
 If he is coming to buy tools and stuff he was working on a job in a remote location. The time of these field engineers is worth much more then any value gained from shopping around. And when the bean counters fuck with people like that they leave and go work for somebody else.

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