Have not seen or heard anything on this here? No one commenting, Detroit media silent...as usual.
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Coding jobs are gone.
You're better off becoming a plumber or electrician.
AI can't do those jobs.
Go to college ! Learn to code ! Never mind, we have AI now.
No WARN notice:
https://milmi.org/warn/
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/24/2025-18473/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b
@ga
The government and it's citizens dug themselves into massive, inescapable debt from 2020-2024. Doom spending, vacations, cars & homes they couldn't afford, etc.
Between 2023 and 2025 there were a quarter million tech layoffs and that's the tip of the iceberg. Just yesterday a memo was leaked from Amazon that they plan on firing 600,000 people. That's just one company.
We have seen record bankruptcies, foreclosures and car repossessions.
Do a search of your area on forclosures . com. You will see that 9 out of 10 are bankruptcies, not foreclosures. This is a very different "great recession" than the last one and one that both parties have made invisible by redefining recession and fudging job numbers.
This all before the orange guy and his tariffs.
You can try to control the narrative, place blame or play games but the events that lead us into this nightmare were all in place for years. I'm not even a fan of the orange guy. I'm just saying, "lets be real here" and not come up with simplistic answers to complex problems. It actually doesn't matter who gets blamed. The collapse is going to happen one way or another and will sort out the winners from the losers.
So is driving us into a recession while raising prices with tariffs the way to improve economy?
Do you want to follow the white rabbit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFZMnHK0qqg
Spoiler alert:
It's all about to collapse and it has to do with purchasing power.
Income | Inflation | Subsidies | Student Loans | Bullwhip Effect
It will start with auto purchases and loans (look at CarMax and subprime lenders), roll over into home sales and loans and whipsaw the entire economy. We've seen this movie before, only the speculation and debt is dramatically at a bigger scale. Will they call it a "greater recession" or a "greater depression"? Lots of bankruptcies in process right now.
Maybe "AI" can help! LOL Don't worry, the government will save you. So why not start some new wars because the bread and circus isn't working.
Why do Hair Stylist work at GM!!!
@az
That's exactly what happened to my group.
Stylists and engineers were expected to make it to the late evening meetings.
It didn't work for long though, turnover in India is insanely high and once they sold the idea to Warren, the original team broke right up.
Salaried design will do the upfront design work then execution will be handed over to Contract designers - even before its production released - which could potentially mean inside, outside, overseas, etc. The engineers better start getting used to having to work all day then have a snack at home before they jump on their evening calls with India to find out how their designs are coming along.
General Motors laid off over 200 salaried employees, mostly CAD engineers in metro Detroit, as part of cost-cutting and restructuring efforts. The layoffs, attributed to business conditions rather than performance, were announced via Teams calls. This continues GM’s trend of reducing its salaried workforce, even as the company raises its 2025 financial outlook and reports strong earnings. The move follows similar cuts at Rivian amid wider auto industry challenges.
Cad and design staff
Many of them (probably almost half of that number) were let go in the Electrical department. :(
This was a staff reduction cut. It wasn't performance based, no matter what you hear from people. Most of the people I have heard about were not low performers FWIW. Translation: No one is safe. Women, men, different races, age... it didn't matter. A diagonal slice.
There is a reason Mary sold 40% of her stocks recently.