Do you say "no" when your boss asks you for a favor?
Have you had poor interpersonal relationships with your colleagues?
Do you do less work than your colleagues? Are you disengaged?
Are you combative when issues arise and do you fail to take ownership of them?
Are you sight-unseen? Unreliable? Do you make excuses?
Are you the last person your boss thinks of when there's an important project that needs new team members? Do colleagues not accept your linkedin invitations?
Does any of this sound like you? If so, the fact that you were delusional enough to think that others will be "next" without thinking about what little value you are to the corporation should tell you that YOU are next.
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I see people driving American cars all the time in Warren
“ Young and educated people don't drive American cars.”
Intellectual prowess on display here.
Commercials aren't real life.
Young and educated people don't drive American cars.
"I've seen an uptick in purchases by young affluent highly educated men and women."
Where did you see this? GM commercials? I don't see highly educated people driving luxury pickups.
This thread is a waste of server space.
GM is targeting different customers than ever before. I've seen an uptick in purchases by young affluent highly educated men and women.
With higher profit margins, we can sell fewer vehicles and make as much money. The blue collar crowd will be out of the market soon anyway when all new car sales must be EV.
I've also seen a lot of Cadillac product placement on the BET network and Bounce network. Our customer base is changing fast.
I've always thought that blue collar people shouldn't go to college. If your family can't afford to pay for university in full, then it isn't for you.
My family has immense wealth and was able to pay for my tuition in full. Now I'm 35 and a director and the sky is the limit. My older brothers and sisters are surgeons or executives at their companies.
Blue collar folks should go straight into the labor force. There are also great options for them to go to trade school and lead very rewarding lives. There is a shortage of truck drivers. College is definitely not the answer for those families. And we are certainly not going to eliminate anybody's debt.
“Brown nosing” is a racist phrase.
Escort your self to HR and disavow your white nationalist tendencies.
Don't waste your time somewhere brown nosing means more than good work.
Volunteer to be the scapegoat when your boss or the other team members he likes more make a mistake.
Be a team player and take one for the team.
He'll appreciate your good attitude.
Make yourself as likeable to your boss as you can.
That's what'll save your job.
Looks like I hit a nerve. Maybe look into retail?
@3kzt+1mrsGD44
If being reliable and valuable to your team is brown nosing to you, I suspect that everything will work itself out for you.
Management is unable to know who is a "good" employee but they know who they like.
So you advise brown nosing?
Q: If you have a cynical view of management, does that save your a— during a quarterly review?
A: Use your imagination.
Time to pay the fiddler!
A: It's the lazy employees' fault.
Q: What are things GM managers say?
As you go up the management chain, value goes down but pay goes up massively.
If your boss says you're not performing well but can't give you any examples, then you're just being targeted for age or some other illegal reason and performance is a excuse to get rid of you for cause so you don't get a package.
There’s a lot of confusion in the replies.
The low value employees are not contractors. Employees!?!?
The fact that this wasn’t obvious really shows how many low information, lazy, entitled direct employees need to be culled.
We can’t be competitive unless the low value people are removed. Too many resources wasted, including time and energy on these people. It’s not lost on me that too many managers have made poor hiring decisions and should be let go as well.
Who will decide the value?
Contractors already were let go Apr 28 2023. Only the local news reported on it and not the national level.
This is certainly a troll post, and untrue. I can certainly say that contract workers work harder than most direct, without the protection and free pass of the corporation. So, when those rounds of layoffs occur for contractors, the company will be left with people that are simply "too comfortable" to do their jobs well or efficiently. That's simply how it works.
It's no different than career politicians. People that are too comfortable, that should have been put out to pasture many years or decades ago. Like corporations, they too have no term limits, which means the dead wood continues.
OP is probably some GM manager who has a bunch of employees that don't like them and is describing their response...I don't assign work to you because my friend doesn't like that you had a differing opinion. People I talk trash to won't accept your invite on LinkedIn. I call your answers to my persistent belittling excuses. I blame you constantly and if you refute any of it, you are not taking ownership. There are two side to every GM value.
GM 101
Know the game and check your conscience at the door.
Really your manager should have a discussion with you about details and not just that you are not performing well before HR is involved
Somebody beat me to it...if you think that's how GM works, you are delusional. I know plenty about of people that do not benefit the company.
If HR is telling you how to not get fired, seems like something you should take seriously.
Take responsibility for your actions like an adult. Have a little self respect.
Looks like an HR posting.
That describes half the company, starting with the SLT.
Keep being a slave.