I didn't leave just because it would be difficult for me to start from scratch again. I know many people who are dissatisfied and think that the future of GM is not very bright, but they are still here, probably until they reach the breaking point. What was your breaking point when you finally decided to quit?
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With all the layoffs you mentioned in every industry, having a gap on your resume isn't a big deal anymore.
Most people have them now.
"Perfect" resumes went out the window with pensions and a gold watch at your retirement party after 20 years with the company.
With a year's pay, you can try to start a new business or just hunker down for a year (or more if you cut back on spending) and find a job when things get better.
What's funny is companies are laying off to prepare for a coming recession while they keep announcing record profits.
And the recession was first predicted a year and a half ago.
At some point, companies will just give up waiting for a recession and go back to normal hiring.
I wonder how the job hunt is going for those who took the VSP but weren't retiring.
What does a big gap on a resume look like to hiring managers?
Big job cuts in the job market. Here's list of the sectors with the biggest cuts according to the Wall Street Journal*:
*Technology and Media
*Financial Services and Consulting
*Retail and Services
*Crypto
*Autos and Manufacturing (Boeing, Dow, Ford, Lucid, 3M)
The environment doesn't look too good for job seekers despite what we are hearing in the mainstream media, especially for tech, manufacturing, retail and financial industries.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-companies-conducting-layoffs-in-2023-heres-the-list-11673288386
Some of the programs they're using are older than the NCHs
That's why there's a lot of 20 year old software being used.
Bad code usually comes from bad management.
Bad requirements, impossible deadlines, micromanagement by non technical people, etc.
I never had a manager at GM who would allow refactoring because they felt like it didn't give them new functionality and so was a waste of time and money.
Either you're working for one of the few good managers at GM, or you did this behind his back.
Me: I reverse engineered the code, put in comments that should have been there in the first place, and had to fight to rewrite things that I actually put in the time to figure out how to do the correct way.
People who wrote the code: I taught them everything they know.
Good point but the only judges at GM are petty managers and their insult hurling friends.
Judge: "Will the defendant please show the jury where on the doll his breaking point is?"
GM: "OBJECTION"
Judge: "Over ruled."
When you hit your breaking point at several companies simultaneously, how did that make you feel?
Don't reply to this guy. He is just trolling and putting the same post in different groups.
RTO was my breaking point
This person is at breaking point because he has two jobs - one at GM and one st Ford - at least judging be the same post on both companies thread.
Probably gets confused as to which meeting is being attended
Another round of layoffs will cure your breaking point.
If you are having a mental breakdown now, how will you cope when the economy starts crashing? We are just coming down from the peak. Things are just starting to get interesting!
Taking the VSP circumvented reaching a breaking point. I was close enough to retirement that taking it made sense to take it. If I didn’t take it, my breaking point would have been RTO. Not because I just didn’t want to go back in, but I have a medical condition and the accommodation I submitted, with supporting information from my doctor, was denied.
Well said and spot on, perfect.
GM is driven by who likes who, not merit.
The cream doesn't rise to the top here.
I took VSP, the breaking point was our group was given another new DGM that knew and knows nothing about what we did and did not know how to do the job. I have had to train and teach another manager how to do their job.... enough...done...moving on. GM promotes people who dont know any thing about the groups they are responsable for not all managers but alot. Good luck company.