https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/business/hermanth-kappanna-vw-emissions-gm.html
Six Years Ago, He Helped Expose VW’s Diesel Fraud. This Year, G.M. Let Him Go.
Hemanth Kappanna’s research helped plunge Volkswagen into a scandal that continues to plague it. In February, he got two months’ pay and a one-way ticket to India.
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Good , I want to see GM and Ford destroyed , they are an absolute failure to American people and deserve all the negatives in the press they get , we bailed out GM and get screwed anyway. As for Ford , screw them too because they are all the same.
@svo nailed it!!!
Cheap trumps good.
I had a millennial text me (still at GM) saying that she received another bad CAP.
This is her 2nd year in a row receiving a bad CAP...yet still there making $70K plus bonus, etc.
Brilliant leadership decisions!
Unemployed GM workers, please go to work for the Asia auto suppliers here, and they are hiring and will pay you well. Trump's trade war with China will destroy GM & Ford, and make himself lose the election next year, which Barra & D party like to see!
Regardless, people are waking up. They aren't buying GM regardless, and the market share is telling the story.
For every promoter within GM, one scorned employee does that times five or more.
Karma is a b*tch.
I saw a lot of high performing but well paid older folks let go, and poor performing but cheap college hires retained.
But I agree, they mixed in some younger people to try to cover up the blatant age discrimination.
From previous postings, it sounds like many of the younger people laid off were told to reapply for their jobs and they'd get rehired.
GM went out of their way to NOT discriminate on the basis of age. So much so, that they shot themselves in the foot in many areas.
In November, employees were told that the involuntary separations would be based on performance.
In February, at all people meetings after the layoffs, we were told that they were NOT based on performance.
It was an age-first balancing act. Every group had to give a little, and the ages of those cut had to look like a cross section of the total group ages. That meant that high paid, older, low-performers were retained, while high-performing younger employees were sacrificed. The list of who stayed and who was cut appears to have been done blind to names, performance, salary, current work assignment, critical knowledge, or anything else that might have actually made sense.
The illogical nature of the cuts have a lot of those who are still here wondering about the future of the company. Especially with new management throwing new work at understaffed departments as if nothing happened.
This theme of laying off valuable employees while the less competent were saved is a common story told by those who were laid off and those who were retained. If GM was asked to substantiate the rationale for laying off specific employees, they would not have a clue how to substantiate their decisions. Since these layoffs were all about maximizing dollar savings, those with higher salaries and older individuals close to locking in higher pensions were discriminated against in the selection process. There was an HR document produced for Directors with guidelines for selecting those to layoff. To avoid appearance of discrimination, it was recommended that wherever possible entire functional areas would be laid off, regardless of whether it included those that were not in the older/higher paid targets. This resulted in some middle aged employees getting sacrificed.
I read this yesterday , yeah basically GM figured he was dangerous for the company and fired him. GM has no real plan to go all in on anything electric lol , it's all a bunch of lies , this poor guy gets canned because he's to good for the job and GM dosent want to be exposed for what they are ,Liers just like VW , they are all the same and it's a racket.