Hearing rumors about a VSP in 2025. Is there any merit to this? It appears the gm subreddit mods are deleting comments related to this, whatever that means.
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VSP - Not going to happen. Best case scenario now is being in a layoff with 6 months pay and 2 months WARN if you are lucky.
The entire point of open seating was the facilitate endless churn of employees.
"Where's Jim?"
"Who's Jim?"
When you disappear one day, most will be to afraid to ask about you. It will be like you never existed. And there will be no desk to clean. No personal effects.
Interchangeable seats. Interchangeable bodies.
Anyone who dismisses pay-cuts, 5-day RTO, and mandatory 10 hour days for salary in the near future will find life very exciting once the record profits turn to record losses.
Out of the 1,000 let go recently, there was a percentage who thought they were ki-ling it and that GM would grind to a halt without them. Yet here we are with Mary still the darling of most of the business world. It will turn on a dime when those quarterly results diminish. It's just over the horizon.
The new method effectively force-ranks out the employees they want to terminate on a continuous basis. It is informally named SBD (Silent But Deadly) because there is no large group layoff on the same day.
A generous VSP would get me to leave too but like others are saying I’m just not too sure they’ll offer those again with the current HR and performance rating system.
I am not hearing rumors, and I agree that the performance based organization was put in place to avoid having to offer VSPs in the future. I am planning to retire in 2025 and move on. I am not interested in dealing with the increasing stress and am looking forward to enjoying a fun retirement. I don’t care if I miss out on a VSP or other severance opportunity. There are way more important things in life.
There will not be anymore VSPs. They have discovered more efficient and inhuman methods of dealing with people they no longer need.
Saw someone recently mentioned it on reddit. Wanted to see if anyone else had heard anything, or if it was just someone’s wishful thinking.
Hey, What rumors have you heard?
- They don't value our humanity or worth. You can see this with the callousness of the text messages & emails they sent to the people that were cut. They also think we are stup1d by telling us how to behave and think.
- They have already demonstrated that they can cut large numbers of people without any good justification. They won't think twice about doing it again.
- Random rug-pulls are cheaper than expensive VSPs. They are trying to raise more money for stock buybacks so Mary and her friends can cash in.
- A VSP offer isn't necessary when they have already targeted people for calibration cuts.
- They restructured our performance reviews so that it's easier to put people in the under-performance category. They also renamed our CAP to include "With Calibration".
They aren't being coy with their intentions!
I hope you're right.
I've been kicking myself for not taking the last one.
I'll definitely take it this time.
I want off this sinking ship, but I'm not going to throw myself into the ocean instead of waiting for the lifeboat.