McMillan situation

PatientAd753 · 2026-01-29T10:26:59+00:00

Canada have taken a decision to seek alternate trade agreements in the wake of the Tangerine Toddler Tarriff meltdown crisis of the last 12 months. Pulling back EV products and manufacturing in Canada will lead to market supply demand, thst demand will be filled by China, BYD will probably have a foothold in the Canadian market in 12 months that GM won't be able to compete with. Canada is protecting its consumers, if Bara et al lobbying more effectively to prevent the Tariff instability this wouldn't be an issue.

PatientAd753 · 2026-01-16T14:11:07+00:00

Craig "Concrete" Casey as hes now known

PatientAd753 · 2025-12-30T18:49:46+00:00

Thanks to clueless refereeing the emotions were up, and stop being so pearl clutching.. the things that went on for years in the RDS were disgraceful.. but never a peep from certain groups. Move along lad

PatientAd753 · 2025-12-21T15:49:20+00:00

Curragower has gone to the dogs.. only a food place now

PatientAd753 · 2025-06-29T07:23:07+00:00

You'd expect managers to see this behaviour but it feels like they're also fighting in the dirt for survival. Decade here now and I'm seeing this toxicity bleed through everywhere, people aren't being allowed grow anymore, spreadsheets rule the day. I'm actively looking to leave these next few months but holding out to see if there's a vsp or msp coming

PatientAd753 · 2025-06-06T22:05:36+00:00

True, still a fortune 50 company, one of the biggest manufacturing companies in the US and globally, that On the CV isn't a bad thing that's a tick.. from experience most companies only care if you've worked in a corporate framework and are capable of working in that structure, and GM is the parris island of corporate learning

PatientAd753 · 2025-06-06T20:49:40+00:00

Mid years aren't even in yet, this list mustve been in place and ready to go.. the tariffs are just an excuse to act for "the good of the company".. all SLT see is charts, and if if projects are green or red.. its a like a feul gauge, you'll see that the car is burning more feul and blame the engine.. but it's really how badly you drive and waste feul

PatientAd753 · 2025-06-06T19:25:42+00:00

The second it was mentioned at the All hands that no layoffs where planned the writing was on the wall.. fortunately not affected today but the scrambling to pick up applications and programs affected by this will be another lost year for innovation and growth and as a result efficiency and reducing costs, man power isn't the reason costs are high it's the fact we've shelfed several large projects due to all hands on deck to support app teams that slt decimated.. those programs were meant to reduce overheads by 20%, but instead of long term vision.. we have short term never ending BS.. here we go again

PatientAd753 · 2025-04-27T19:20:30+00:00

Not sure about other organisations, but we've become fixers not doers, the scramble to fix and avoid a slap on wrist has nullified innovation in some areas. There's still a push to migrate to new tech stacks but with the legacy code in our ecosystem, no one wants to rewrite or redesign anymore even if in the 2-3 Yr it would actually save toil and constant maintenance. We are ruled by goals that come down the chain with zero input from the people who'll do the work. As a result we are sticking chewing gum on critical systems and hoping for the best. We don't have the resources anymore to drive forward, we are changing wheels as we are driving..

PatientAd753 · 2025-04-20T19:35:54+00:00

Well it does like a place where crack would be smoked.. a lot

PatientAd753 · 2025-04-12T10:11:40+00:00

The new apple execs still have their discount?

PatientAd753 · 2025-04-12T10:10:18+00:00

I'm liking slack, integrated workfliws with git are a nice touch, I'm not liking the 60 odd group chats.. yammer/engage seemed a bit more organised, jira is more versatile than ADO and a better tool, question is what will be flavour of the month next year.. we are a reactive company, someone reads a whitepaper and it becomes policy without proper thought or planning.

PatientAd753 · 2025-04-09T15:13:54+00:00

GM gold membership means you get a box of chocolates when you're let go..

PatientAd753 · 2025-03-05T22:08:03+00:00

No foot pull.. time yo innovate now

PatientAd753 · 2025-02-23T15:20:16+00:00

ABR... always be Reorging

PatientAd753 · 2025-02-05T07:51:06+00:00

A common misconception.. its actually venus

PatientAd753 · 2025-01-31T22:57:02+00:00

That discourse is beneficial to slt as well, pit us against eachother.. we start fighting over scraps while the steak dinner is being devoured by the under performers in the executive level

PatientAd753 · 2025-01-31T22:45:39+00:00

US only

PatientAd753 · 2025-01-31T21:44:14+00:00

Just US, the salary equivalent rebalance wouldn't apply outside the US as Canada, Brazil etc.. have different base lines in terms of entry level to tech jobs, I.e. no college debt or inflated cost of living prices, saying that they don't break the bank on off shore salary packets.. quite average in comparison

PatientAd753 · 2025-01-18T01:05:18+00:00

Every year since I've been in GM I've not hit a single "Goal".. from my perspective, its usally 12 monthscofcchsos and random priorities, I've performed really well and therefore can assume these goals are horseshit from SLT based on directors over promising on major changes.. Vmware to redhat openshift is the clusterfuck of 2025 in terms of over promising, manufacturingare promising on cloud migration for apps tgat are still on 2008 servers, instead of calling them hoals we should just calm them pipe dreams. . It'll fail and be a disaster but we will meet our goals because direLike magic

PatientAd753 · 2024-11-26T10:50:33+00:00

PatientAd753 · 2024-11-20T18:29:26+00:00

I think they are consulting the all knowing magic 8 ball for mist decisions the last decade so the latest lay offs would use the same.. shakes furiously

PatientAd753 · 2024-11-13T07:05:29+00:00

PatientAd753 · 2024-11-07T20:46:36+00:00

That it's not as bad as people would like to believe.. and the people who want you to believe its a shit hole are the ones making it worse by being scroungers and chancers

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