Thread regarding General Motors layoffs

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Wow, not really, though.

I’m bitter, negative and resentful. I wonder why I can’t get ahead?

Never tell the Empress she has no clothes.

Unlike the end of the story, she won't thank you.

Start brown nosing and you'll be fine.

People who almost never get promoted here:

*Complainers
*Trouble makers
*People who dial it in
*People who make excuses and miss deadlines
*Busy bodies who spread rumors
*People with no demonstrated leadership
*People who are seen as distrustful and antagonistic toward leadership
*People who refuse extra work
*People who don't even bother to apply but complain anyway

Anything other than following orders is considered trouble. You will get harassed by mgmt for pointing out issues, talking outside your clearance level, questioning safety issues, speaking out about anything for the most part.

The rise in outsourcing and the decline in innovation happened at the same time

"The talented workers are threats to the boss, they could take their job. Best to keep them down. Bosses don’t want innovation, they want people who will do whatever they say without question. The work is not important, it is how you make the boss feel. Focus more on telling the boss how great they are and less on doing your job.

This is why large bureaucracies fail. The original company founder was innovative and smart. But they surround themselves with yes men who end up taking over. The new boss gets an MBA because they don’t know how to think for themselves, and then they blindly do whatever the other CEOs do, right or wrong. Need a stock bump, announce a layoff."

Yup, our businesses are becoming more and more like bureaucracies. Don't make new or innovative products. Just make them very very cheaply much like what we once did with plantations . I bet southern plantation owners made a lot of money but didn't create at all. There is more than one way to make money besides innovating. Sigh, the US was truly unique and exceptional before 2000.

The talented workers are threats to the boss, they could take their job. Best to keep them down. Bosses don’t want innovation, they want people who will do whatever they say without question. The work is not important, it is how you make the boss feel. Focus more on telling the boss how great they are and less on doing your job.

This is why large bureaucracies fail. The original company founder was innovative and smart. But they surround themselves with yes men who end up taking over. The new boss gets an MBA because they don’t know how to think for themselves, and then they blindly do whatever the other CEOs do, right or wrong. Need a stock bump, announce a layoff.

It was like that at every company I worked for. Chalk it up to human nature.
Some people take risks, some play it safe. Some do very little but are charming. Others work hard and create value but have a bad attitude. In the end, you have to decide on whether you want to play the game. If not, don’t complain when people su-k up and get promoted.
What is different at GM is that the game is almost everything that matters.

It's not what you know, it's who you know.

The people who prosper here are the ones whose bosses like them, not the ones who work hard.

Most bosses don't know who on their team is doing the real work and will often just attribute the work to their favorites.