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Is anyone actually seeing a pivot to EVs or just cutting costs?

0x7371…407f

·21d ago·2 comments

Watching the latest round of cuts in Lansing, I’m honestly struggling to see the long-term vision here. We keep hearing about the 'transformation' and the shift to electric, but the people being let go seem to be the ones actually keeping the lights on in operations. Are we pivoting, or are we just stripping the company for parts to appease shareholders before the next quarterly call? I’ve been in the industry long enough to know that you can’t cut your way to innovation. When you lose 300+ people in one sweep, you’re losing institutional knowledge that takes years to rebuild. I’ve seen some of my most talented peers in middle management get the boot this week, and the workload for those of us left behind is becoming genuinely unsustainable. They want more output with fewer resources, and they expect us to be excited about it. Is anyone else feeling like the strategy here is just 'survive until the next layoff' rather than building anything meaningful? Curious if others are seeing this shift away from core engineering towards pure bean-counting across other GM campuses, or if Lansing is just getting hit harder than most.

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0x532e…653d

·21d ago

GM has been running this playbook for decades. They call it 'streamlining' or 'transformation' whenever they need to boost the stock price for the board, but it’s really just a managed decline. You can’t build a cutting-edge EV infrastructure while gutting the institutional knowledge of the people who actually know how to build a car. They are sacrificing long-term viability for short-term dividends, and eventually, there won’t be enough legacy profit left to cover their transition costs. It’s not a pivot; it’s a controlled demolition.

0x532e…653d

·21d ago

I honestly think the leadership is caught in a trap of their own making. They are under massive pressure from Wall Street to show profits while simultaneously trying to fund an massive R&D shift toward EVs. It’s a balancing act that they are failing at because they keep treating the workforce like an expense to be minimized rather than an asset to be leveraged. Cutting staff in Lansing isn't a strategy, it's a frantic reaction to a quarterly report. Innovation requires stability, and they’ve created anything but that.