GM has plenty of choices for hybrid/EV engineers
A few weeks back we told you that General Motors had put out a casting call for engineers and technicians to work on their advanced powertrain systems. People heard the call and turned out in droves. GM is looking for 400 staff to help make vehicles like the Volt and Sequel a reality in the coming years and they received over 7,000 resumes. Human resources staff at GM sifted through the resumes looking for the right skill sets and invited 600 of the applicants in for interviews at a career fair being held at a top-secret location in the Detroit Area. Hopefully they will find the right staff to help them ramp up the development pace on those transformational new products.
[Source: Ann Arbor News]
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Howard Lee Harkness 4:04PM (5/06/2007)
During my time at Delco (which was then part of GM), I found the management there to be remarkably rigid and intolerant of any departure from "mainstream" (as defined by them) thinking. I found that some of my suggestions where not just rejected, but thrown back to me in the form of threats of being fired if I didn't keep my mouth shut (my suggestions were not directly concerned with automobile improvements, but with better ways of writing software). If they have changed, it is probably only as a result of having that change forced upon them, and then only after great resistance.
I suspect that any change of heart is purely for show, and the upper management of GM has completely lost touch with reality. I have lately seen some analysis in BloggingStocks that would confirm that conclusion. If that wasn't enough, they are also pouring lots of money down the (oh so Politically-Correct) hydrogen sewer.
Even if they have suddenly achieved enlightenment, the management of GM has piled on more debt in the last 10 years than they will ever be able to pay off without a government bailout, so I'm not expecting GM to be a long-term major player in the automobile business, much less a source of any great innovation.
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BGJ 7:24AM (5/07/2007)
And now it is clear where your hatred of GM comes from. Judging a company by how you were treated a decade ago is pretty short sighted.
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Tim 8:49AM (5/07/2007)
GM will ultimately drown in their own socialist legacy "entitlement" costs which transfer wealth from the productive to the non-productive. Like the federal gov't, these "entitlements" are over 50% of their gross operating budget. That's why both entities are drowning in debt.
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Chris 12:17PM (5/07/2007)
People can't work forever, idiot. Take your pick: The government or the company has to either continue providing these entitlements, or vastly increase the pay to these employees so they can save on their own. The reason Japanese companies don't have these "socialist entitlements" is because the government provides them entirely.
You right-wingers live in fantasy land.
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