Stellantis mass layoffs

[Joeiconic]

They told 400 or so employees to work at home one day and then fired them all in a conference call. How cowardly is that?!

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/st...-white-collar-workers-during-mass-firing-call

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[Grumpaw]

Each of the employees that were fired got severance of a case of pasta and 6 jars of spaghetti sauce.....

 

[Motorpsychology]

Each of the employees that were fired got severance of a case of pasta and 6 jars of spaghetti sauce.....

...And a retired Fiat 500X from the press pool...

 

[MountainGoat]

The layoffs will include a separation package and transition assistance.

Wow not only are they laying them off they're turning them into trannies!

 

[Dgc333]

They told 400 or so employees to work at home one day and then fired them all in a conference call. How cowardly is that?!

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/st...-white-collar-workers-during-mass-firing-call

As despicable as that sounds it is motivated by the number of incidences where someone has gone postal when being notified that they are being laid off. Doing it this way the folks being laid off are away from work and have time to cool off.

Years ago I was working at a place that had been going through layoffs and during one of them a person being laid off lost it and went across the conference room table and grabbed the HR rep by the neck and was choking her. Luckily the persons manager was in the room and the conference room had glass walls and folks saw what was happening and the person that lost it was pulled off the HR rep before she was seriously injured. There were other incidents where people lost it and over turned tables or made threats. One woman in my department when she got the word she broke down and was screaming and crying and could not be consoled, they had to call her emergency contact to come and bring her home.

A friend of mine worked at a company that had had some incidences during layoffs that they started highering an armed security company that met folks at the entrances to the parking lot and if you were on the list you were given a package with information about your rights, severance and a schedule when you could come back and get your personal effects. You were then turned around and sent home.

Unfortunately it is a sign of the times

 

[Motorpsychology]

Wow not only are they laying them off they're turning them into trannies!

Their tranny plant is in Kokomo, IN.

 

[MountainGoat]

Goddamn I cannot wait to retire. So over this type shit.

Well damn, I dunno what got you banned but man...

I've seen this attitude/boomer take a lot around here. Do none of you have kids? Don't you realize that your children will have a much worse time of it than you did? Just checking out isn't enough anymore. Do something to secure their future. At least think about it.

 

[Chris M]

One of the Best things we can do for our kids is teach them how to handle their finances from an early age. Teach them how to save, how to spend smartly, and how to plan their investments for their own retirement season.

We've tried to emphasize those things with our kids, and to some extent we have been successful, but it would be foolish for them to assume we will have anything much left at the end of our lives to give them towards their retirement days.

 

[Dgc333]

Honestly kudos to whoever choked out the HR rep. It's what they deserve.

That is a piss poor attitude and totally unfair. In my 45+ years working in corporate America I lived through quite a few lay offs and plant closings, not once did the local HR rep have anything to do with who was getting laid off. As with most corporate decisions shit rolls down hill and the local HR rep is the one that gets the shitty job of telling folks their job is being eliminated. Even the immediate manager is told who they will lay off.

In the incident with the HR rep being choked the person doing the choking should have been arrested and charged with assault. Neither the company or the HR rep wanted to press charges, that person was quite lucky.

 

[WhyNot21]

Do none of you have kids? Don't you realize that your children will have a much worse time of it than you did?

Our 3 "children" are doing much better than we were at their age. Life was not just handed to them. They had to study and work hard to get where they are.

 

[MountainGoat]

It's clear things accelerating towards a bad end. And many younger people seem blase about it too. But the "I hope I can enjoy X a few more years before it gets taken away from me/not allowed to have it anymore" I keep seeing is selfish and anger inducing.

As far as HR reps I've seen more than one with a real attitude. They don't have any skills, they don't create or build anything but they sure like to interfere with employees who do. Giving useless people power always seems to end the same way.

 

[_TraMor]

That is a piss poor attitude and totally unfair. In my 45+ years working in corporate America I lived through quite a few lay offs and plant closings, not once did the local HR rep have anything to do with who was getting laid off. As with most corporate decisions shit rolls down hill and the local HR rep is the one that gets the shitty job of telling folks their job is being eliminated. Even the immediate manager is told who they will lay off.

In the incident with the HR rep being choked the person doing the choking should have been arrested and charged with assault. Neither the company or the HR rep wanted to press charges, that person was quite lucky.

There's a lot there to unpack but wanting to wring someones neck I would think is pretty common, perhaps a tad misdirected on that note but still somewhat common.

 

[Dgc333]

Our 3 "children" are doing much better than we were at their age. Life was not just handed to them. They had to study and work hard to get where they are.

Same here my kids are in a much better position than I was at their age.

 

[JesseS]

One of the Best things we can do for our kids is teach them how to handle their finances from an early age. Teach them how to save, how to spend smartly, and how to plan their investments for their own retirement season.

We've tried to emphasize those things with our kids, and to some extent we have been successful, but it would be foolish for them to assume we will have anything much left at the end of our lives to give them towards their retirement days.

So true, all four of my kids made it thru college, some I paid for some were full ride. I made them get checking accounts when they started working as teenagers and taught financial responsibility as best I could. All in there 40's now and three doing well, one not so great, but I will not bail him out. My Dad taught us boys to stand on our own two feet and not depend on anyone else. I have worked my entire life following that principle and it has worked. Depending on how long we live and health needs we will leave them enough as we both invested wisely. (I hope)

 

[Langwilliams]

My four kids have college degrees an good careers. My three boys are mechanical engineers an I told them to not run out an buy anything after graduating. I told them to have 6 months of income in the bank first then start reducing debt as fast as you can. I explained how white collar workers get cut during recessions an drops in business an unlike union auto workers no layoff protections. Neither ended up directly in the auto industry, one works for a major seat supplier an they survived Covid slow downs ok. All four are doing much better than I did at that age. I had to learn the hard way an work my ass off to get it right.

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