Thread regarding General Motors layoffs

The thing I really love about working for General Motors is the endless churn.
Second from that would be the threats.
Third would be seeing the friend-and-family folks who know and do nothing get praise, promotions and perks. When the churn gets you "meets", you can pretty much assume those friends-and-family folks are getting the "exceeds".

I'm hoping we can experience the excitement of mandatory free salaried overtime and the 5 day onsite requirement in 2026. That would really make things special for me. A pay-cut would only notch things up.

What are your favorite things about working for GM?
#GMONE

They copy things from tech companies that are bad for employees, but not the things that are good for us.

They cherry pick what they copy. "Well Amazon and Google do these bad things"

Well where are the free on site restaurants?

Slack, ah ha ha. Management is just copying tech companies and startups because they can't think for themselves. It's the continuous cycle of changing things to prove your management cred. I'm sure a real tech forward individual decided to force people into using multiple tools where one was previously sufficient.

@m5 you sound like a phaguette.

@kr
Did you run that through copilot? Because it sounds like a trash rebuttal.
You sound mad, I'm sorry your new website is a flop. If GM is trying to position itself as a tech company that sells cars but can't nail its own internal systems what does that say.
I don't think the bi--h was "AI is bad" it's the companies implementation of AI is bad. The utilization of current tech is bad.

Man really complaining about GM ONE looking like AOL from 1998 You sound like somebody just discovered the internet And now you’re crying about AI like you’re Elon Musk Managers using AI for emails is somehow a crime Meanwhile you’re over here acting like Slack vs Teams is the end of civilization And the China rant come on It’s a website not a coup Calm down take a breath and stop acting like a toddler who lost his tablet

It's the latest tech at the offshore location that did it.

It’s funny you mention that slack comment. I use both teams and slack, and still spend more time on teams.

@be
Don't get your pa-ties in a bunch.

@aj
Wrong thread?
You want the next door down.

In design engineering, we were given a "skills assessment", and told that people "asked for it in the last survey" (obvious, insulting lie).
Immediately after the skills assessment deadline we were told that we were... get this:
"SHARED RESOURCES" with other groups, aka traded like horses.
They cut 2/3 of the staff and now want to squeeze blood from rocks by over-utilizing "resources" that are already doing the work of several people.
I can only imagine the panic of these weak managers as they lose their best people to groups with more political pull. Same deadlines, same work with a tiny fraction of the "resources". It madness.
Let it all burn.
I'm done.