A brutal ass PWNing... (RE: GM Plea)

[J-PyRo]

I get tired of hearing about these dumbfucks every day living in the same state. And it's sad, too, because my girlfriend is in HR with her ultra-spiffy degree of their biggest parts supplier, American Axle (who also gets mentioned in here...)

I so wish I had written this. It's freakin' brutal.



The President of GM sent out a letter to employees...... and one of them responded, sent this copy to his folks, who in turn, asked him if they could circulate the letter....... very interesting.........................

Abridged letter from Troy Clarke, President of General Motors

Dear Employee,

Next week, Congress and the current Administration will determine whether to provide immediate support to the domestic auto industry to help it through one of the most difficult economic times in our nation's history. Your elected officials must hear from all of us now on why this support is critical to our continuing the progress we began prior to the global financial crisis....................

As an employee, you have a lot at stake and continue to be one of our most effective and passionate voices. I know GM can count on you to have your voice heard. Thank you for your urgent action and ongoing support.

Troy Clarke
President
General Motors North America
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Here is a response from one of GM's Suppliers: A man named Greg Knox, President of a machine tool company in Ohio!

In response to your request to call legislators and ask for a bailout for the United States automakers please consider the following, and please also pass this on to Troy Clark, the president of General Motors North America for me.

You are both infected with the same entitlement mentality that has bred like cancerous germs in UAW halls for the last countless decades, and whose plague is now sweeping the nation, awaiting our new "messiah" to wave his magical wand and make all our problems go away, while at the same time allowing our once great nation to keep "living the dream". The dream is over!

The dream that we can ignore the consumer for years while management myopically focuses on its personal rewards packages at the same time that our factories have been filled with the worlds most overpaid, arrogant, ignorant and laziest entitlement minded "laborers" without paying the price for these atrocities and that the masses still will line up to buy our products.

Don't tell me I'm wrong. Don't accuse me of not knowing of what I speak. I have called on Ford, GM, Chrysler, TRW, Delphi, Kelsey Hayes, American Axle and countless other automotive OEM's and Tier ones for 3 decades now throughout the Midwest and what I've seen over the years in these union shops can only be described as disgusting.

Mr Clark, the president of General Motors, states: "There is widespread sentiment in this country, in our government, and especially in the media that the current crisis is completely the result of bad management. It is not." You're right - it's not JUST management. How about the electricians who walk around the plants like lords in feudal times, making people wait on them for countless hours while they drag ass so they can come in on the weekend and make double and triple time for a job they easily could have done within their normal 40-hour week?

How about the line workers who threaten newbies with all kinds of scare tactics for putting out too many parts on a shift and for being too productive (mustn't expose the lazy bums who have been getting overpaid for decades for their horrific underproduction, must we)? Do you really not know about this stuff?

How about this great sentiment abridged from Mr. Clarke's sad plea: "Over the last few years, we have closed the quality and efficiency gaps with our competitors." What the hell has Detroit been doing for the last 40 years?!? Did we really JUST wake up to the gaps in quality and efficiency between us and them? The K car vs. the Accord? The Pinto vs. the Civic? Do I need to go on?

We are living through the inevitable outcome of the actions of the United States auto industry for decades. Time to pay for your sins, Detroit ...

I attended an economic summit last week where a brilliant economist, Alan Beaulieu surprised the crowd when he said he would not have given the banks a penny of "bailout money". Yes, he said, this would cause short term problems, but despite what people like George Bush and Troy Clark would have us believe, the sun would in fact rise the next day. And something else would happen. Where there had been greedy and sloppy banks new efficient ones would pop up. That is how a free market system works. It does work . . . .if we would let it work. But for some reason we are now deciding that the rest of the world is right and that capitalism doesn't work - that we need the government to step in and "save us".

Save us? Hell, we're nationalizing. And unfortunately, too many of this once fine nation's citizens don't even have a clue that this is what's really happening. But they sure can tell you the stats on their favorite sports teams.. Yeah - THAT'S important. Does it occur to ANYONE that the "competition" has been producing vehicles, EXTREMELY PROFITABLY, for decades now in this country?.... How can that be???

Let's see:
* Fuel efficient
* Listening to customers
* Investing in the proper tooling and automation for the long haul
* Not being too complacent or arrogant to listen to Dr W Edwards Deming four decades ago
* Ever increased productivity through quality, lean and six sigma plans
* Treating vendors like strategic partners, rather than like "the enemy"
* Efficient front and back offices
* Non-union environment.

Again, I could go on and on but I really wouldn't be telling anyone anything they really don't already know in their hearts.

I have six children, so I am not unfamiliar with the concept of wanting someone to bail you out of a mess that you have gotten yourself into - my children do this on a weekly, if not daily basis, as I did at their age. I do for them what my parents did for me (one of their greatest gifts, by the way) - I make them stand on their own two feet and accept the consequences of their actions and work them through. Radical concept, huh. Am I there for them in the wings? Of course - but only until such time as they need to be fully on their own as adults.

I don't want to oversimplify a complex situation, but there certainly are unmistakable parallels here between the proper role of parenting and government. Detroit and the United States need to pay for their sins. Bad news people - it's coming whether we like it or not. The newly elected Messiah really doesn't have a magic wand big enough to "make it all go away". I laughed as I heard Obama "reeling it back in" almost immediately after the vote count was tallied. "We might not do it in a year or in four." Where was that kind of talk when he was RUNNING for the office. Stop trying to put off the inevitable.

That house in Florida isn't worth $750,000.

People who jump across a border really don't deserve free health care and welfare benefits.

That job driving a forklift for the big 3 really isn't worth $85,000 a year.

We really shouldn't allow Wal-Mart to stock their shelves with products acquired from a country that unfairly manipulates their currency and has the most atrocious human rights infractions on the face of the globe.

That couple whose combined annual income is less than $50,000 really shouldn't be living in that $485,000 home.

Let the market correct itself people - it will. Yes it will be painful, but it's gonna be painful either way. And the bright side of my proposal is that on the other side of it is a nation that appreciates what it has, doesn't live beyond its means, gets back to basics, and redevelops the work ethic that made it the greatest nation in the history of the world, and probably turns back to God.

Sorry - don't cut my head off. I'm just the messenger sharing with you the "bad news".

Gregory J Knox
President
Knox Machinery, Inc.
Franklin , Ohio 45005

[!!!PUNCH!!!]

Mr. Knox is a fucking genius. It's pretty much the same thing I've been saying about the recession as a whole, not just the end of things on the Automotive front. Big Business needs to own up to the fact that they pissed away billions upon billions of dollars over the last 40 years. And in a way, we (The younger generation, the people at present day who are between 21-38) have our own parents and grandparents to thank for not holding Big Business accountable Throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, they were left unchecked to make all the financial blunders that have lead us to this point, and no one stopped to say "Hey, what happens in 30-40 years when the cash flow stops?"

Then, in speaking on the car industry, you add to the fact that American cars simply don't sell world wide, that further adds to the hole they dug themselves. Some American car companies aren't feeling the squeeze, like The Chrysler Group and Ford as much, because they actually HAVE a market overseas. GM is built it's foothold in the US and Canada, and done nothing to appease for the fact that it's models don't have worldwide demand. Ask yourself, how many GM commercials have you seen lately? My sentiments EXACTLY. They've got no one to blame for but themselves, and them sitting on their hands waiting for the government to bail them out of their own fuck up shows just how fucked up they've been. I personally wouldn't give them a red cent. Sure, it would result in a major loss of jobs, but as Mr. Knox said, most of these people are overpaid anyway. A nice little stint of unemployment does WONDERS for that ol' work ethic. What's sad? I'm a 21 year old Journalism Major and I can see the financial faults that Billion Dollar CEOs choose not to. And I'm not the only one. I can't be the only one, because in a nutshell, we...the 21-38 years olds of today...the people born between 1970 and 1988...the modern day workforce, are the ones who get fucked in the long run. We have to live with the consequences of the fuck ups of our elders. Thanks for that ya' bunch of greedy fuckin' morons.

[J-PyRo]

A little bit more on the autos. Chrysler's actually the more domestic of the two, although the partnership with Fiat will help change that. That's their main goal of trying to get into the European market. GM has just been shooting themselves in the foot the entire time, and being blinder than everybody to the actual reality of everything. I own a Ford myself, and intend on getting a brand new Ford once employment kicks back in. I know GM's quality went way up, especially with the OnStar infusion, but yeah. They're also the most blind as a company.

All in all, this is the fault of the masses as much as it is the fault of the CEOs and deregulation. Some intelligent people could have seen what was bound to happen, eventually, hell, I think in early high school we were even preached that we'd have economic hardships in our time when we learned about the Great Depression. This was all a fact of just letting it happen... and then of course, this Generation Y, which is known as one of the more spoiled generations... just really doesnt' know how to handle it. It's the older folks that are taking whatever they can get, while we have these Union slobs that are just holding out because "They can't work for less than (at best) $16 an hour. I made over $17 an hour before my layoff, after 6+ years of working myself there from just over $10... and now I've got to take that same type of ethic not only to school, but to break the mold out of the current crop and take whatever job can come my way. Hell, I'm not going to hit the $2K gross for a bi-weekly check that I used to, but hell, if it beats the near $400 a week for unemployment? Sign me up.