So yelling layoffs was just a scare?
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GM doesn't need a DEI team because the true believers are in power and have already been hiring lesser qualified people who check boxes.
We all see it but are too afraid to call it out.
It is disgusting. A modern form of corruption.
We will see the DEI agenda again on display when they finally do their 10% and 5% cuts.
It will be obvious to everyone.
In the meantime I will shed no tears over any DEI Stasi being shown the door. Maybe they should do something positive and productive for once in their lives.
There was some big tech company that decided to tell their entire DEI Team to start looking for jobs as their team did not meet "Changing Business Needs" and were no longer "Business Critical".
I guess GM loved what the company did, and I would not be surprised if GM follows along adding these poor people to headcount reductions this year.
GM just loves to hang out with other companies and pick up there so called established new habits ("If it works for them, it will work for us.").
Sad, but true.....
Surprising given Mary's strong belief in DEI.
I was let go today, as well as a few of my colleagues.
Funny thing, we were all involved in GM’s DEI initiatives. There were some other groups impacted as well that were involved in GM’s DEI as well.
So much for layoff talk. Plant I’m at just announced third shift.
They need to let go of the youngsters that ask to work from home because they need to tend to their sick pets. You want my help? Come into work and I’ll show you.
Speculation. Let’s post anyone getting canned. It’s been happening quietly all along. Let’s hear the actual stories. PIPs PIPs PIPs
agreeing with the last comment that many companies target you once you are age 50+. i was more/less forced into retirement because i tried, unsuccessfully, to pressure my manager to enforce protections the company handbook says we are entitled to. any illusion these companies are about us is just that, an illusion.
And "performance" based layoffs are happening all the time.
"Performance" being you're older and make too much money.
As we are not going to meet our EV goals, GM is probably going to reduce headcount before the end of the year to justify some stupid Arden cost constraint.
It might be an early Christmas present….
But, we as usual are kept in the dark regarding their so called promised statements: “Our models are not predicting any layoffs”….of course they aren’t….”Disguised” layoffs.
I watched 4 entire groups go bye-bye based on that statement of fact…
We have renamed our implementation of AI, "Raj". Please train Raj as a CAP project. Remember, he's a tool, not a replacement.
Train the AIs and h1bs.
They're there to help.
" Just another tool to optimize part design."
"we used it in design tools to optimize the design of parts plus cut cost and mass"
Absolutely. I certainly encourage you to do the same at General Motors! Please do train the AI. It will really help us cut costs in the future.
Interesting article but this technology is nothing new. Suppliers have been running software like this for well over 15+ years. I worked at one of them and we used it in design tools to optimize the design of parts plus cut cost and mass. As usual, OEMs come along 10-20 years later and try to make it sound like they are reinventing fire. It’s not gonna take your job away. Just another tool to optimize part design.
It started in 2018. General Motors started to experiment with using AI and 3D printing to create car parts:
Disrupting the industry with 3D printing and generative design in car manufacturing
https://www.autodesk.com/customer-stories/general-motors-generative-design
I wonder why they would want to do that?
Check out the example in the article of the bracket assembly designed by humans compared with the bracket designed and 3D printed by AI. Oh-oh, it's like comparing a Model T to a UFO.
Now do yourself a favour and create an Open AI account. Ask it to answer any question, no matter how complex. Better yet, ask it a question someone at work would ask you. See what it comes up with. Open AI has been integrated into spreadsheets. Pay a small subscription, replace your accounting team. Can Open AI create a marketing campaign? Can it program software? Create a recipe? Write a song? Give directions? Teach you how to solve an algebra problem? Give it your parameters.
What I find amusing is that Fidelity and Morgan Stanley is taking YOUR 401k money and investing trillions of it in Artificial Intelligence; the very thing that will have you living in your car. Did you think the millions pouring over the border weren't already stealing from the Social Security fund? Insult to injury: a bill that prevented them from voting was blocked. Why do you think that is? If you were an i!!egal, would you vote for the people looting resources from the American people and giving it to you?
There are videos on youtube that show food lines across the country that stretch for miles. Look at the cars in the lines. Many are brand new, high end cars. How long do you think they can keep up the payments:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=food+bank+lines
Tent cities across American? Absolutely.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tent+cities
Where do you think this ends? People buying $60k cars and you coasting into retirement?
When corporations like GM embrace AI, hundreds of thousands of people will lose their jobs.
Can AI design a car? Is it possible to 3d print a car?
https://www.neuralconcept.com/post/from-concept-to-reality-the-development-of-an-ai-designed-car
Beyond that, just about every finance, marketing, IT, HR, and management job can be replaced by AI today.
Who wants to bet against the idea that this will happen during the next recession? You will find out in months, not years.
All Quiet on the Western Front….
Trolling
Agreed. Folks are probably over leveraged with debt and the economy is showing cracks but who knows what will happen. Bound to make folks jumpy. Imo folks should be using these times to pay down debts and to heck with keeping up with the Jones’s
OP gets laid off on Friday
All hat and no cattle.
A super duty dually with no hitch.
There are a lot of people one missing paycheck away from chaos. Its no wonder people are getting restless.