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    GM To Lay Off 4,000 White Collar Workers By October 1st

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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    06/24/09

    In reply to GM To Lay Off 4,000 White Collar Workers By October 1st
    Wow! GM still has more than 4000 employees?
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    Image of .357 .357
    06/24/09

    In reply to GM To Lay Off 4,000 White Collar Workers By October 1st
    What about the leather collar (i.e. Max Mosley) workers?
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    Image of lilwillie lilwillie
    06/24/09

    In reply to GM To Lay Off 4,000 White Collar Workers By October 1st
    Hire them back as Green collar workers, call it "saving the planet" and the Guberment will approve.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    06/24/09

    @lilwillie heart clicks GM: Damn. You beat me to it. Seriously, Alfistead beat me to a comment on another thread. I leave for 1 hour and come back and all the good comments are taken. I guess this will force me to try harder.
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    Image of .357 .357
    06/24/09

    In reply to GM To Lay Off 4,000 White Collar Workers By October 1st
    There go the accountants. Now who's gonna design the cars? The Corvette guys? They don't know how to design a SleepMachine suspension! The Europeans? They can't design MultiFlex cupholders!
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    Image of FTGDWolverineEdition'09 FTGDWolverineEdition'09
    06/24/09

    In reply to GM To Lay Off 4,000 White Collar Workers By October 1st
    It's sad but in a way I am glad I turned down the offer from GM about a year and a half ago as an engineer. And they paid really well too (about 3k more than my next best offer). But I promised myself that I wouldn't work with a mainstream auto OEM for atleast 5 years after I graduate.
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    Image of nataku8_e30 nataku8_e30
    06/24/09

    @Formerlythegreatestdriver: I graduated at the end of 2006. I knew that I wanted to go into automotive engineering, but the writing on the wall was more like huge graffiti in the bathroom at that point, so I did a fairly last minute concentration change to aerospace and have been employed ever since.
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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    06/24/09

    @nataku83: I graduated this year as an electrical engineer. I too wanted to work in the automobile industry, but realized that was a horrible, depressing dead end proposition years ago.


    Unfortunately, the economic train wreck has killed the job market for fresh grads. To think, if I hadn't co-oped to gain "valuable" experience, I would have graduated last year and would have a job right now, provided it didn't remotely have anything to do with cars. Dammit.

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    Image of Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage! Gearhead_42 - Nibbles ate my garage!
    06/24/09

    In reply to GM To Lay Off 4,000 White Collar Workers By October 1st
    Well, the engineers should do OK, and everybody needs a little "creativeness" in their accountants. Quality has been pretty good lately.


    The designers, however, they be fucked.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/24/09

    @Gearhead_42: Toyota could probably hire 'em. Their current designers are strung out on meth, and that shit ain't free.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/24/09

    In reply to GM To Lay Off 4,000 White Collar Workers By October 1st
    How come when the union guys get laid off, everybody flips out. We have strikes, protests, big fat guys standing at the side of the road holding signs and grilling meat.


    Where are the protests when white collar workers get laid off?

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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    06/24/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: at the starbucks.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/24/09

    @boosted-lego-wagon -> now boosted to 350hp: Survey says: Good Answer.
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    Image of WheatKing WheatKing
    06/24/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: Most white collar people have educations and can land a job elsewhere.


    Just sayin.

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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    06/24/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: Why should there be? First off GM already is laying off a ton of union workers and no one has really been flipping out.


    And second some divisions of GM had almost as many MANAGERS as workers. You kinda get the idea that you are expendable in a situation like that.

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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/24/09

    @Jim Topoleski: That's fine, but where is the public out-cry? Where's the support?
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    Image of Boosted Lego Wagon Boosted Lego Wagon
    06/24/09

    In reply to GM To Lay Off 4,000 White Collar Workers By October 1st
    Headline: GM White Collars Popped.


    Dude! Kegger, brah.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/24/09

    In reply to GM To Lay Off 4,000 White Collar Workers By October 1st
    If the middle management is the problem, nudge 'em out the door. Seems sensible.
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    Image of Ash78, tryptophanatic Ash78, tryptophanatic
    06/24/09

    In reply to GM To Lay Off 4,000 White Collar Workers By October 1st
    In 1990, I used to weigh 397 pounds
    I didn't feel good about being fat
    I was too fat for my height
    Suddenly, I started cutting down on fatty foods


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    Rock over London, Rock on Chicago
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    /RIP, Wesley

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    Image of WheatKing WheatKing
    06/24/09

    In reply to GM To Lay Off 4,000 White Collar Workers By October 1st
    Hey the government is DOWNSIZING!??!?
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    03/30/09

    In reply to Peugeot CEO Christian Streiff Fired
    USA to France: We hear you need a new CEO over there.

    France to USA: Pardonez-moi? Vous êtes fou?

    USA to France: Yeah, we got a few extra over here. We can let you have them for bargain basement prices... Let us know what you think.

    France to USA: Merde! Ce que des idiots!
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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    03/30/09

    In reply to Peugeot CEO Christian Streiff Fired
    Given the extraordinary difficulties currently faced by the automotive industry, the supervisory board decided unanimously that a change in the senior leadership position was necessary.


    Well now that they fired that guy, I'm sure all those industry-wide difficulties will go away...

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    Image of OldeEnglishD OldeEnglishD
    03/30/09

    In reply to Peugeot CEO Christian Streiff Fired
    Well now we only have to guess who the other 10,999 people are that will lose their jobs at P
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    03/30/09

    @OldeEnglishD: Peugeot
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    03/30/09

    @OldeEnglishD: PSA really. Citroen is there too.
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    03/30/09

    In reply to Peugeot CEO Christian Streiff Fired
    Yesterday I recommended to sharpen the guilhotines, it looks as if they took it literally.
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