Thread regarding General Motors layoffs

What they were doing wasn't important so no need to pick up that work.

How can the work being done by 940 people be absorbed by remaining IT centers in such a short time?

“unionize and fight them back”
What are YOU doing to unionize?
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
All hat, no cattle.

This is the d-mbest take, probably by a GM HR/Senior manager and people upvoting it are either GM shills or brainwashed id--ts.

They didn't listen to sh-t, they didn't release the survey result (the most important one too), people wanted remote but they were forced to take what leadership wanted (3 days a week). You are trying to blame outsourcing but these jobs weren't replaced, they were just fired when we have good financials. Stop trying to blame other things when the problem is clearly the SLT, unionize and fight them back.

After 2019 massive layoffs,remaining employees got too comfortable. They also got huge bonuses since GM stopped dividend. It was like stay home and collect nice pay and bonus. All free rides have to stop eventually. More 'streamlining' looks likely.

Really disappointing that @rxr+1ofgacnf didn't get more down-votes.
The reality check is a breath of fresh air.

In 2023: More than 161,521 workers in U.S.-based tech companies (or tech companies with a large U.S. workforce) have been laid off in mass job cuts, according to a Crunchbase News tally.

In 2022: More than 93,000 jobs were slashed from public and private tech companies in the U.S.

This is a TREND. Where do info tech workers shift to during mass layoffs? Do they go to a golden horizon where magical 'work life balance' lucky charms exist? Or do they greet people at Wal*Mart? I guess we'll find out. This has never happened before in America. Tech workers were the exulted ones. Now, third world labor and AI is making them obsolete. "Mom, can I move back home with all of my Funko Pop! figures and my gaming laptop?"

It's also a strange thing to watch Wall Street traders with forks and knives out buying up Nvidia shares to the extent that it's over a trillion dollars in valuation. They are REALLY excited about displacing all of that labor because of the upcoming corporate savings. It's a race to the bottom of course, but this is where we are today.

General Motors was never a tech company. It designs and builds CARS. Never forget that. Hooking a high voltage cable to a drive unit and a 1,000 pound battery doesn't make the car an iPhone or a PS5. IT services can come from Romania, Austin or Bangladesh. All things considered, managers will get a bigger bonus when they choose the lowest cost option.

IT SERVICE IS A COMMODITY.

*https://news.crunchbase.com/startups/tech-layoffs/

I said it before here and was downvoted- wfh levels the playing field. If you are equal to a guy in the third world and sight unseen, to the manager you cost too much. Also ironic that the people who were complaining the loudest about RTO were IT.
Now they have more time at home.
IT layoffs across the country.
What’s left? They had no leverage and now they have no job.
The real geniuses in IT took the VSP in a job market purging IT staff. “Learn to coal.”
Join me in downvoting this reality check. IT is getting replaced by Raj, who will eventually get replaced by AI.
And PS Shen Yang’s economy is on the verge of collapse. Read all about it.

GM is an evil corporation.. when will the sheep realize this, and on top of the list is the evil witch Mary Barra