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Is GM leadership completely out of touch with Lansing?

0x7f73…4468

·1d ago·2 comments

I’ve been reading the headlines all morning and it’s honestly maddening. Another 361 people gone in Lansing. It feels like every time the stock price dips or they miss a milestone on the EV transition, they just grab the axe and start swinging at the regional plants. Do they honestly think we can maintain operational efficiency while morale is effectively zero? The disconnect between the executive team talking about 'innovation' and the actual reality of the shop floor is wider than it has ever been. I’m tired of the town halls where they talk about synergy while we’re all looking over our shoulders wondering if our badge will work tomorrow. Does anyone have any insight on if this is the end of the cuts for this quarter, or is this just the first wave of a much larger reduction coming in the fall? I’m exhausted by the uncertainty.

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0x28dd…0833

·1d ago

It is the same old cycle every quarter. Wall Street demands a specific margin, and the folks in Detroit just look at the payroll numbers in Lansing like they are items on a spreadsheet. They talk a big game about an electric future, but you cannot build a global car company on the backs of people you keep laying off every time a project hits a snag. It is short-sighted, and frankly, the lack of loyalty to the legacy workforce is what is going to kill their production quality in the long run.

0x317a…a7a2

·1d ago

I have been working the floor for fifteen years, and honestly, the silence from the upper levels is the worst part. We hear all these buzzwords about pivoting to EVs and capturing market share, but nobody explains how we are supposed to scale up when they are gutting the very people who have the institutional knowledge to make it happen. They are chasing a valuation while destroying the foundation. It is incredibly demoralizing to watch them trade our livelihoods for a temporary bump in the stock price.