What a culture shock. Anybody coming to GM that has worked elsewhere has to dramatically lower their expectations and standards. Some many sloth like people— hourly and salaried with terrible work ethics. I really think GM should change it’s company motto to “Its not my job”.
One team?? What a joke.
Wasf9- the things I saw in my department would make people sick. I was on time everyday ,person I worked with came in late and left early everyday , sleep on the job oh yeah it's true , lied about having a degree too because they checked , the person also stole from the company parts tools you name it , this person got to retire on top of it and within two months I was fired because I was contract , didn't matter that I was on the job and to work on time everyday but because I was a direct employee , then I was told it has nothing to do with your work but because of cutting all contract people , well has any contract been rehired since November December ? Did they really cut all of us out?
So the advice is to interview at every company in town and "ask the right questions "?
@2jyw - there are a lot!
You just need to know which questions to ask during the interview to figure this out. Lots of people have drunk the GM kool-aid thinking its the best game in town - if only you knew what was possible ...
What's the 500 person company that does things right?
For me it was the opposite.
I left GM to work for a small tech company with about 500 employees. Holy smoke - culture shock! This company exposed everything that GM did wrong. I will never work for a mega-corporation again.
Development usually had to maintain applications installed in the plants long after the projects were over.
If there was a network glitch at 3 am and it affected an application installed in a plant 5 years before, in another state, development would get the call. Even if no one currently on the development team had ever seen the code, or even knew where the code was kept.
There doesn't seem to be an Operations group in the plants. That, or they don't do anything.
And this all makes sense to management.
Worked for GM a very long time. Easy mode. Try outside of GM, and the you will find experience. Coming here? Well, take a vacation friend...
Operations team motto is ,"Its not my job!"
But management had turned a blind eye to union abuses. Never have so many worked so hard at doing do little while raking in well over 6 figures
Ever try and discipline or reel in an hourly? 110% waste of your time and effort. HR won’t back you up, they will just deal it aaay.
Then they wonder why we stop caring.
This culture will never change after GM has let it go on for decades
so Many incompetent people who have no business being in their positions. Every try and get a straight answer or get a decision?? Tasks that should take a day take weeks and numerous waste of time meetings
I was amazed at the lack of internal policies. No useful tracking of sick time, some took WAAAYYY too much of that and were never questioned i.e. abusing it
This is the result of decades of inbreeding.
When promotions into management are based on personal relationships and not on ability. When all of the managers and directors are promoted from the inside. When differences of opinions are unwelcome by those in charge. When all of those things happen, you end up with a stagnant, inbred culture of doing just enough to not get fired. GM product development is the perfect example.
Low technical level and poor (or no) processes, in addition to the poor work ethic and short work hours.
Short cuts everywhere.