What did they do this time to scare managers into not telling us anything? Even the guys who are usually chatty and reassuring are either nowhere to be found or refusing to answer any questions.
Certainly makes me wonder what this whole secrecy is all about...
Directors knew and depending on their relationship with managers they might have told them. It would be putting their own job at risk so obviously they would be pretty selective about it.
I heard my director talking about how all names had to go through legal and stuff, but didn't catch if he had a say in the names. My manager is close with my director so I am pretty sure he knew.
When I was walked out yesterday, I said goodbye to my coworkers and my EGM. He looked shocked as we just had pre-CAP review (which went well) and future projects meeting that morning. The EGM who walked me out to gates told me how 5 people were gutted from her group and told me she had no prior knowledge.
From what I'm seeing on my severance papers etc, they were trying to hit average cut age of late 30s to mid 40s to prevent any age discrimination lawsuits. Dont matter how important your work was (I validated T1xx chassis components)
This is horrible for employee morals!
The first time this layoffs was announced I asked my manager if it's going to be performance based and she said NO (performance will only be one of the factors)! WHAT! why the hell did I spend the past 5 years working my a-- off then?!
They just need a robot that does what they tell it. no creativity no improvement. how do they think the employees that are survive the layoffs are going to behave??
Now I understand why no one wanted to do anything creative\different at GM! everyone wanted to go by the book because they witnessed the previous layoffs, and they were doing that is necessary to takes to keep their jobs based on previous experiences.
Dhivya and Mary should be ashamed of themselves. they treated us like a numbers.
We're the people that spend half of our lives designing\building GM products.
We sell the best trucks because we (engineers) made them the best trucks. this is not a silicon valley company. making the numbers looks good work last you a long time.
let's see how far you'll go with less talents. vehicles are not going to build themselves you know.
Managers were told if they mentioned anything before an employee was official fired then they too would be fired immediately.
Many managers know nothing! In fact, many aren't even being told after the fact.
Some managers may know but the vast majority do not! That’s a fact!
because, if someone knows their days are numbered there is a possibility of them stealing property or trade information prior to their termination.
I don’t agree with that. Some people do know. My manager said he didn’t know anything however another manager in the same group told us this would be our last week and we should be ready (back in Nov). The only reason she told us because she was leaving the company taking the package and my boss wasn’t to be seen the entire week.
So no, the managers know they just don’t tell it to anyone.
Answer must be they just dont know. Someone would have at least talked on here. Fired manager or spouse even a friend. They just dont know