Gesina V. General Electric Co‪.‬

Appellant Bernard Gesina was first employed by General Electric Company in February 1948. He transferred to Tucson to work in General Electric's Apparatus Service Shop on October 29, 1973. At that time, the General Electric facility in Tucson contained two buildings on the same site. One building housed the Apparatus Service Shop and the other building housed the Instrumentation Service Shop. In 1976, Gesina was transferred to the Instrumentation Shop. From mid-1978 until April 1983, both shops conducted their operations in the same building. At all times the two service shops had separate and distinct functions, managerial structures, accounting procedures, profit and loss zones and staffing.