This seems to be only extended to employees at plants, but even that is good news.
General Motors is offering employees working in plants scheduled to close the opportunity to transfer to other facilities where jobs are available. About 1,100 workers have already agreed to transfer.
https://www.smartbrief.co/s/2018/12/gm-offers-transfers-workers-affected-layoffs
This post is funny, I see first hand the similarities in it's truths. Let's all agree that everyone is expendable, with a certain level of catastrophe depending upon the fallout. One co-worker who moved out of our group, told my manager "IF your lose XXXXX (me), your group is f---ed". I won't ever say I know about that, but I did laugh. You know if you hold value, and if you don't. You know, if you are a key man, and if you are not. Being humble about it, is the problem.
I recall helping so many over the years, that I acquired many dozens of reviews and recommendations among my peers. They said, you make the letter to say whatever you want, and I'll sign it. That was the level of willingness, respect, helpfulness, and wanting to help my colleagues.
Now, all serious aside:
Make no mistake, there is a war over human commodities. You, me, and everyone else, are commodities designed to be utilized, and disposed of when needed. This is your classification, your age, skill set, and value are it's determination.
On the week of our layoff, a newly hired master degree candidate whom I was training, asked me, "Do you ever wish to become an instructor in facility across the street, you should be?" I said sure, I'd life the job, with exception to one thing, no degree. No opportunity.
He said that Friday. Saturday, him, myself, and over a dozen others were laid off with no notice. A simple phone call on Saturday, and decades of work, value, training, mentoring, and work, gone, without a moments notice.
This is your Mary Barra, and her crusade for abomination. Fear this women, I can't stress this enough. She brought a match to the internals of GM, without so much as a fire extinguisher.
“Unfortunately, they don't always allow for advancement for the exceptional. The 20 year verteran that does the work of three, is still rated the same as the two week newbie in which he trains, when wreckening day comes.”
This applies no matter if you are degrees or non-degreed. I have trained my replacements many times over the years. At first Indian H1B on site, later in India. I continually reinvent myself and stay ahead of the wrecking ball. At some point I may get the axe. My attitude is if you do not want me, then your loss.
I do understand my coworkers rage though. The factory workers should come take a walk thru tech centers and see for themselves the 70 percent foreign workers primarily from one continent. After the little walk thru the plant workers might understand the salaried rage and also understand that the salaried are not making more than they are. Qualified American workers are bypassed in favor of H1B. I have walked thru the plants I do not see the same demographics there.
Not a PC post for sure. Anyone with eyes can see the truth. Enough said.
Fair enough reply. I think we can agree that there are exceptional on all levels of contract, salaried, and hourly, and also the opposite.
Unfortunately, they don't always allow for advancement for the exceptional. The 20 year verteran that does the work of three, is still rated the same as the two week newbie in which he trains, when wreckening day comes.
I have interviewed, hired, and worked alongside many contractors over my career. The good ones are definitely assets to the company and should be offered a full time position regardless of their formal educational credentials. However, I disagree the thought that all or most contractors "offer a higher quality of everything over both salaried and hourly workers." Only a relatively small percentage of contractors I have seen fit that bill.
That is a true statement. Perhaps they should be, they offer a higher quality of everything over both salaried and hourly workers. I've seen this in my two dozen years of experience, just among my co-workers. This removes my own experience.
I spoke with a GM talent representative not too long ago, and she was very kind, and allowed me to ask a number of questions in vast details with answers that I won't repeat. In a wrap up, essentially she stated that you could be a gift from God himself, but if you lack a 4 year degree, there's little chance you would be allowed to be hired on through GM policy, even if you work in that VERY role today as a contractor.
These companies chase a piece of paper, and they don't care if you can do the job. They only care if you have credentials. Whether you can provide in the role, is irrelevant.
Contractors are not employees of General Motors.
Ever ask yourself why contractors are never offered transfers? Why is the focus solely on the factory worker? Do they have more to lose?
You will find that everyone involved, is more closely linked than you can imagine.