Quoted from Zablon:It's not just GM, my company is doing a round of layoffs right now too. They always do around this time (when they do). It's a corporate thing to add that extra knife twist for being a loyal employee.
Back in the day loyalty was a two way street. These days organizations ask their employees to be loyal but do not reciprocate.
I think one of the reasons for this is because C-level executives are beholden to board's of directors who give them enormous salaries.
These boards are in turn beholden to shareholders, the biggest of which are usually members of the boards themselves. In this system no one actually cares about the workers or people who do the work.
I understand that Ford has done even worse than GM in the last few years.
I hope it is not the case, but I expect we'll be seeing similar news from them at some point soon.
I'm not directly affected but my pin-hauler is a Chevy Express Van, which I really love.
This is in spite of it not being very reliable so far.
