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I saw it first hand. Got into an elevator with a union guy. Wow. They changed the sign. They corrected the word 'employe'. "No", says the union guy. Roger Smith spelled employee incorrectly (like another genius Dan Quayle). So all signs, contracts, 'employe' handbooks, and forms were changed to spell it with one 'e'. Within a week of retiring, everything was changed to spell employee correctly.
Some GM cars cost more to build then sold for. Quality was so crappy that GM blamed computers for failures created by 'cost controlled' connectors (that maybe saved 50 cents). But GM would spend maybe a $million to change the word to 'employe'. And then spend just as much to correct it. Communism is when employees work for the boss.
About the same time, I was talking to the president of a GM supplier. He was bitter. He said, "GM is going to show me how to cut my costs." Anyone who bought a GM car in the past 20 years is complicit in these problems.
Mary Barra only discovered the Vega (Cavalier, Cobalt, Ascona, Skyhawk, Sunfire, Saturn, etc) problem when it was reported by the news. Because a business school culture hides and denies failures - to cut costs. For the same reason business school graduates killed so many with Firestone tires, in the Challenger and Columbia, and in exploding Malibus that were burning occupant alive just like Pintos.
Anyone who has a kind word for GM must be as dumb as a wacko extremist. Hopefully wackos in GM do not stab Mary Barra in the back. Because so much if not most of GM management is that anti-American, dumb, and do not come from where the work gets done.
Chances are Mary Barra has a driver's license. Unusual. Most American automotive top executives could not drive. And believe they need not learn. We are only rats to be raped. Their attitude. I saw this first hand. It has been that obvious for decades.
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