I wonder every day. Most buildings are still ghost towns. Lots of equipment and machinery sitting idle and rotting away. Majority working from home.
Record earnings in the billions, but the Facilities “Professionals” won’t let you spend for necessities without jumping through hoops. Basic supplies and repair parts are taking weeks or months to obtain. After all these years, GM can’t figure out how to streamline processes. They just make simple tasks more cumbersome.
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There will be an influx of new bodies in July after CCA is shuttered in Grand Blanc...more team building for the Queen and her lap dog Reuss.
Depends on what the spreadsheets say. If $A$1 - $A$2 = red conditional formatting, we close it down and lay off some people in the process while everybody's distracted. Then put out a press release about the moral superiority of the company which people then ignore because they're busy complaining about the vehicles and service because they've seen, first hand, what kind of company GM actually is.
If you're speaking strictly from a facilities POV? I work in AV, I hope it's remote forever - rather than return to work @ WTC 6/20/21. To that end, I hope WTC shrinks due to more remote work.
Thanks for your reply. However, my frustration is NOT related to delays in the supply chain. The new normal is even those of us who are responsible buyers can’t get very basic supplies. Any expenditure that once was routine, now must go through multiple approval steps. We feel like we get interrogated to justify trying to maintain our equipment. Record profits in the billions, yet pinching pennies while equipment sits rotting. Morale? Take a look in the nearest toilet.
As usual with GM, some groups waste tons of money, and nobody blinks an eye. Yes , DESIGN I’m talking to you. Rules? Those don’t apply to Design. Proper procedures? Nope, the pointy shoe group evidently doesn’t answer to anyone.
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I don't work for the company anymore, but did for 20 years. I went to the learning center garage last summer and they were busy, after work I drove around feeling kinda depressed seeing the place empty, just like GPS in Pontiac, empty. Seems like 2017 and 2018 were the very best and last days at the general? As for supplies, parts exc.. it's not just GM, it the entire world, like we are all on backorder, in a holding pattern waiting and waiting, it's a snail's pace everywhere my friend, hope things will improve and soon for everyone. The tier one supplier I work for is the same, slow going. This may sound Rediculous but I really miss GM allot actually, because you the people made the company great, we are all in different departments and mine was the absolute best, my experience anyway. I felt a scence of pride working for a historic company, I miss GPS Pontiac and the people a great deal. I would suspect due to this virus, everything we were used to and how we worked will never be the same again, and the work force will remain small forever in regards to things like large meeting rooms filled with people, all of that is done. Hopefully good old boys like Barra will exit soon and the company will have forward thinkers and creativity again, I think changing the GM logo was a bad idea, it's like why! It's two letters, and the world knows that logo. Bad move from someone that doesn't have anything better to do.