The GM treatment

Ah the motivations and next actions are hiding in plain sight.

First let’s look at the plants. Who are they targeting? Which employees would have difficulty moving - would it be the older employees with kids in school and elderly parents to care for?

Now let’s look at the salaried IT , engineers and such. Yes, of course they are cutting way too deep. In a few months when the laid off are desperate, they will be offered contracting positions for much less pay and no benefits— and be glad to get it. GM bean counters are taking a calculated risk that they can reacquire same or better skill set later for much less $.

GM is taking a page from IBM’s playbook. Mary is just not as slick as Ginni Rometty.

https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-american-workers/

My sons got the IBM treatment, now I will get the GM treatment :-(

Buckle up it is going to be a bumpy ride.

Originally posted by @WDgK3j8-2nmy . This is sad but very true

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More like Idiocracy

The meritocracy starts now with the laying off of the old guard and replacing them with robots and cheaper labor, whomever that may turn out to be, whether it's Mexicans, Chinese, or maybe somewhere in Africa a couple of decades hence. It's a new era, and Elon Musk is obviously the future, the way Henry Ford once was with the assembly line. He may not be the one to realize it, but the day of nearly full automation is not far off. Steve Jobs tried to build Macs in America in the 90s and gave up, because Americans were too unskilled for it. They didn't have the apprenticeships, the education, the supply chain, and the rest. As automobiles become increasingly creatures of technology, the American auto industry faces the same hurdles as it competes with the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans. Tesla is the only American company even trying, and it's run by a lunatic.

Ha good one - Meritocracy - GM has never in its existence been based on meritocracy. That includes now. I read the ProPublica article-long but good. It certainly explains the dramatic decline in IBM software quality. Some products are now so bad we are lobbying to replace them.

To Mr Meritocracy - In one’s youth one always thinks they are solely responsible for their awesomeness. Later one will realize that someone was all along evaluating your potential and giving you opportunities to learn and grow, lifting you up behind the scenes.

Some only realize this when the help abruptly stops (usually when the helpee becomes too big for their britches) and their career stalls. Others realize this when it is their turn to mentor the youth.

Others never do.

Who is John Galt?

Salary discrimination is perfectly legal alas. It just so happens that a culture based on seniority instead of merit has aligned that with age, bit it's a new age, and it's a meritocracy now.

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