Thread regarding General Motors layoffs

Take the safe route

Adding to the absurd interviews is the non-existent collaborative culture between the business analysts, developers, and management.

The entire organization is a cluster f&&k.

Managers who are not fit to be IT managers, let alone people managers. That's the biggest fail. The second is the culture of just doing what you are told. Not thinking or creativity. Take the safe route. Always take the same, lowest feature, lowest risk route for every development project.

GM IT is not a world class IT org. Far from it.

Good luck to everyone who gets the tap on the shoulder but look at this as a blessing in disguise if you have any interest in advancing your career. The shelf life of anyone in IT expires very fact before you become pegged into one job and useless to any other company but GM.

This was taken from @X4n30iF-2ebi

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Saw this coming last year. Bailed with a forced 3 month severance on top of 6 months pay. I am 62 and was treated worst that a contractor and pushed the issue all the way to VP of HR how poorly they are treating their people. Got flower words, but Mary has no idea how to run a manufacturing company. Sad, she once worked beside me in mfg eng. She had just come from shutting down the Fiero plant . I guess she learned how to close plants and never learned how to keep one open.

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Post ID: @4ytp+X6EiHjw

Poster @pje nails it. Trully, just take the word "IT" out and applies to all departments.

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Post ID: @1zrj+X6EiHjw

To the one who wrote the OP, it must be your org.

My manager is awesome and the people I work with work closely with the business and collaborate well.

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Post ID: @1dwf+X6EiHjw

Sorry about the layoff. Keep your head up. That job doesn't define you.

Look for somewhere you can grow and contribute and be happy.

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Post ID: @1vbm+X6EiHjw

well said for IT....i work in IT...just got laid off............nailed in on the head

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Post ID: @eeb+X6EiHjw

Take out the word "IT" and this applies to mostly every department within GM.

So there are still groups still working in silos then? Wait, you mean the open floor layouts didn't solve the collaboration issues? Even after spending a half hour looking for that person in all the new open neighborhood wilderness?

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