Thread regarding General Motors layoffs

Spoken quite well like as defined within the bible. The younger son asked his father, where is my inheritance, well before his father was deceased, insinuating he wanted his wealth before his fathers passing. There was much to learn in this story, I doubt many youths would know it today. Life has a way of inflicting karma upon the wicked and sinister unknowing. It is not all that unlike the workplace of today, and the comments you make.

Your response is spoken very much like a youth, an embarrassment and with all the attributes I would fear if I was an employer. I'm happy to see it could possibly be on GM's dime. Well done. I may be aligned in our unison for a greater good.

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The reason they hired newbies is because the people there collecting a paycheck aren’t willing or unable to learn new things. It’s easier to shape an acorn’s path than to bend an oak. But instead of gracefully accepting retirement baby boomers want more more more. Move aside your day in the sun is over. If you didn’t make enough money to retire along with your pension, 401k, generous salaries that’s your own problem. If you have to call your kids or grandkids to help you connect to your at home

WiFi or clear your browser of toolbars, you have no place working for a company with eyes toward the future.

Let the millennials pay off their student loans and buy homes and start their families. Quit always thinking about yourselves.

The tech center was bloated in 2015, when they brought in their legion of youthful misfits. At that very time, I stated to the entire floor of co-workers, give it a few years and everyone's job here will be at risk. There will be cuts you haven't seen since 2008.

Working within our department, one of our many managers were actively hiring candidates, and stated that I'm receiving tons of applicants with masters degrees. "Why wouldn't I hire them"? A number of us looked at each other and said the obvious, "Because they have zero experience, can't do the job, and are clueless. They are a liability if you value quality and integrity".

A piece of paper is an entry point towards intellect, it neither defines technical capability, knowledge, or intellect. It doesn't define ability. It simply means to paid enough, to regurgitate enough information to achieve a passing grade in your coursework, a starting point for a person to perhaps walk along side of experience.

This is our future. idiocracy, is not a fantasy, it's very much real life, and companies across the board are embracing it.

You should be mindful for your future. The will of society will bring in the lowest common denominator. It's human evolution, aka devolution.

GM IT @ warren tech center is humongous over bloated............how could you watch netflix @ home and be working from home ?

Find a new job, GM doesn't care about their employees just the bottom line. Stop pointing fingers. There are some good young workers and some bad ones, same with the experienced hires. Then there is management that gets shifted around when some genius thinks it will improve something. GM is not a technology company and its behind the times, move on.

I will give you a real world example of youth wasting corporate time.

In 2015, GM hired a significant amount of degreed salaried workers across the board. These youth, wanting to take on the world, learning the system, introduced a group that could elevate the way GM does business, within our own little world. They identified and elevated to management that there was a problem within the system that needed to be fixed. They claimed, they could do what those that came before did, in only a fraction of the time.

I was invited to these meetings as a representative their counter. It was a battle of experience, versus youth. Six young engineers, claiming a system broken determining the livelihoods of a 100's, claiming the system had to be changed because something was broken. In less than an hour, I solved all their problems, and why the system wasn't wrong, they elevated issues that were never issues to begin with, due to there own ignorance of how the system worked. Not only did I fix their issue on the spot, they denied the entire situation all together and did everything they could to cover their tracks. When elevated multiple times, they swept it under the rug.

Inexperience, had wasted a half year of GM's time and much in the form of salary. This is the future of GM. Karma, has a tendency of coming back upon individuals. When you purchase the least valued asset in the bunch, you achieve the least achievable reward possible. When you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.

This is the one area in which GM can never purchase. Common sense. It's time to retire the dinosaurs at the time, as they never did get it right. God help them if they were to replace the dinosaurs, with the youthful inexperience.

This is your future of GM.

Hopefully the company will get rid of this unproductive deadwood. Tired of putting in 80 hour weeks only to see IT putting in much less than the required 40 hours. Even when they are physically at work, their brains aren't!

This sort of generational finger-pointing doesn’t do anyone any good. Young people can make the argument that they are only on those sites because they’re more efficient and productive than their slower, overpaid counterparts. Anyone with any sense can see that the pool of individuals who don’t pull their weight spans all demographics. If someone doesn’t have work to do, who’s fault is it truly? Management.

We need to work together to be strong- this sort of crab mentality will only serve to show management that we are an ineffective institution, which is not the case.