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Old Oct 29, 2008 | 07:01 PM
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Employees getting 2 month layoff at GM Tech Center
Voluntary for those with highest senority, mandatory for others. Unemployment benefits will be paid. To be announced tomorrow.
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Old Oct 29, 2008 | 08:27 PM
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Exhibit Y that GM is crumbling before our very eyes. What a sad state of affairs.
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Old Oct 29, 2008 | 08:34 PM
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...what kind of employees?

Are you talking management and engineers, or custodians and window washers?
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Old Oct 29, 2008 | 08:55 PM
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The tech center is pretty much all engineers.
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Old Oct 29, 2008 | 09:30 PM
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I can't imagine how helpless many of the everyday hardworking people feel at GM right now.
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Old Oct 29, 2008 | 09:52 PM
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does that mean they're stopping work on the volt?
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Old Oct 29, 2008 | 10:32 PM
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Old Oct 30, 2008 | 05:15 AM
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Unnamed source leaked it to the local TV news and they thought it was credible enough to run it.
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Old Oct 30, 2008 | 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by GTOJack
The tech center is pretty much all engineers.
There are a few thousand designers, UAW and support people there too...
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Old Oct 30, 2008 | 11:09 AM
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remember not to believe everything... take it with a grain of salt...
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Old Oct 30, 2008 | 12:28 PM
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any update?
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Old Oct 30, 2008 | 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by GTOJack
Unnamed source leaked it to the local TV news and they thought it was credible enough to run it.
The same unnamed source that leaked the story about Waggoner talking to Toyota?
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