As part of the new plan, GM expects each organization's manager to rate 5% of their team as significantly exceeding expectations, 10% as exceeding expectations, 70% achieving expectations, 10% partially meeting expectations and 5% who do not meet expectations. For the latter 5%, GM wrote in an email at the time, "we expect appropriate action to be taken, up to and including being exited from the company."
In a string of more than 163 comments by Friday on a General Motors page on Reddit under the subject of "layoffs,” many commented that they were let go earlier in the day and were blindsided when their supervisor told them they were being fired. Others indicated they suspected they would be cut either because they got a poor midyear review or their manager was giving them increasingly less work to do.