Take back control of your last fevand send GM a signal

First, I am a GM employee and have been for the past 6 years. Prior to that I supported GM the previous 13 years.

I have worked hard to get where I'm at in life, and I worked hard to become a GM employee, and I was proud to become a GM employee. However, the stress over loosing my job these past months has taken it's toll by way of restless nights, grumpy attitude, drinking more than a beer or a glass of wine and little desire to perform at work.

Where I was once proud of my work, I now loath and spend more time finding ways to prolong my work and drag my feet. I'm not the only one and where it would generally take an hour or so to get a reply from an email, it now takes a day.

I don't like who I'm becoming, it's not who I am inside and it's not who I want to be. It's time for me to take my life back and cut my losses. I am not GM, I am a husband and a father to my children. They look up to me for instruction and watch me as an example.

If I am not part of the layoff, I will wait until after we receive out Team GM bonus. After that, I will seek employment with a company that treats me with dignity and respect. I will work for a company that lives out their integrity instead of the a hypocrite who preaches integrity, but does not live it out. Faith without works is simply dead faith.

I will not be mistreated and I will not stay because of my fat paycheck. Money does not buy happiness and I will not be mistreated in this way because I'm afraid to loose my fat paycheck. I will survive on less money, and I will be just fine. I will sleep well at night because I know I'm valued.

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I also started with Gm 6 years ago. Supported GM for 20+ years before hiring ino GM. Through my time as a employee of GM I was never treated with respect by 'true GM' employees - ones where GM was their origial employer. Once a supplier, always a supplier to old school GM employees.

Bad humble brag with the "fat paycheck" shtick. No one will feel sorry for you. Man up.

Work harder while your here you lazy Whiney douche.

In my experience the only time a company appreciates you is while the profits are rolling in and the job market is good. If the company's income declines or the job market is bad they all treat you like this. It's a tough lesson but being loyal to your employer means nothing. Be loyal to yourself and your family, stay sharp, keep your skills up and you will be fine. Only the people that come in and surf the web all day are the ones that should be truly worried.

Good luck!

It is a tough road of course. You are tasting a little bit of what contractors and some plant workers go through time and time again over a lifetime. There was a video online showing a plant worker being laid off, claiming to have moved his family twice for this company, and he got let go yet again. When this occurs once it's hard. When it's a pattern, you learn never to trust the company.

They say that the worst kind of enemy you can ever have, is the unknown enemy that infiltrates your ranks. They sabotage from the shadows, and work unseen.

I wonder how many people within GM are advocates against the company for life, just for the reasons stated above.

It's a great mindset to pick yourself back up. However, the reality is that businesses are ruthless, regardless of where you work. Grass is not greener on the other side, you just have to reserve your loyalty for yourself.

Good for you.

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