Stories for anybody who might be thinking, "General Motors couldn't be that bad."
I've seen so many bad things in so many places in such a short amount of time. I am not the only one. The truth shall set us free!
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The successful tend to manipulate exhortations from management into, essentially, bullying. Teamwork in GM speak means ganging up on people. Intelligence means being able to coming up with arguments against every a person does. If you have a conscience this will make you mad which at General Motors means you are not a team player. I've spent many years at GM at multiple locations and these facts have always held true. In case somebody gives you the wrong impression, the people engaging in these bad behaviors are not the ones that get laid off. They win...at General Motors!
I remember the boss telling me about some website where you could see litigation against General Motors. He talking about a guy who was drinking, crashed, and his air bag didn't deploy. The manager said it was his problem for drinking while overlooking the fact that the problem was surely happening to other people who GM employees didn't feel they had the right to execute. That was 2013, shortly before the news of faulty keyswitches came out.
I took a new position at a new facility because I wanted to work for General Motors despite years of spending way too much of my free time getting things done well only to be punished for putting forth the effort. A lot of people would have just left but I was determined that GM was a big company and that I just ended up in a particularly bad place within it.
I put myself out to give the company a second chance!
I had my work ignored or marginalized until I was laid off less than a year later.
I am slowly realizing the same thing, can’t really visualize spending 20 years working here.