General Motors

Vacation Paid Holidays Fellow Engineers (working level) Stability

Advancement opportunity depends upon relationship with manager, not necessarily effort/results.

Very stiff management (genuflect).

No open door policy (even though management says it has one).

No consistency between managers (what is good for one manager is not good for another). Perhaps this is common between all companies?

Stealth raises (some/few get, most do not, on non-merit years).

High degree of responsibility - Low degree of control.

Raises depend upon relationship with manager as well as where one sits relative to average market value (which the employee is generally below). There is no incentive to work hard, because effort is often ignored based upon previous points.

Reward those who do good work.

Manage with motivation, not fear.