OT: Anybody hear about Pontiac? Options

[dbgriffith75]

There wasn't a lot of detailed discussion about it, but on the morning talk show they were saying that by this time next year, GM will have discontinued production of the Pontiac brand.

Just wondering if anybody else heard about this?

[charliew]

Amen brother ben er buck. I got laidoff from a copier-camera co. at 57 after moving to there from the largest computer co. for more money 11 years earlier. I got almost nothing 48k for 23 years. No union, I always thought I was good enough and I would always have a good job. I didn't realize you just need a body to run service calls for this new co.. When we went there we found out the original guys made way less than us and hated us for it. I got a 10% bonus quarterly for I think 4 years over my regular pay. My old co. had me at their top pay for the last 3 years I was there. I was the first pc trained rep in TX. It was a baby large wordprocessor. They always needed more copier guys. Copiers suck. Also no union. The new co. started making me cover calls 100 miles or more away and my local customers some of who were my neighbors would have to wait till the next day for service. We originally at my old co. gave 4 hour response. The new co. sold refurbed machines that were basically dusted off painted 15 year old technology machines. They tried to steal another copier co.'s service by hiring reps that stole the maintenance manuals and started training our reps to service their machines. It was a flop the only machines the other co. lost were the ones ready to go off lease and needing complete overhauls.

Southwest Airlines has the only good management at a us company I know of.