You might consider other options if you have them - Lead Specialist GE Aerospace Employee Review

GE recently implemented mandatory billing by each salary employee to bill 1800 hours to programs. What this means is if you have overhead for training or meetings that aren’t built to a program or even paid time off you have to make up the time or you could just take no time off and have about three weeks of training and meeting time available to you. While others in the industry are going with the 9/80 schedule, GE has just gone with a 10/90. What they need to do is eliminate some of the middle management that we’re paying for that don’t bill to programs and it would free people up and give them a better work life balance, which GE likes to claim we have..