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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alighieri who wrote (446029)	1/8/2009 12:43:31 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575622

On the segment they interview a couple of folks, potential customers, about what they think of GM...their answers will shock you. But you are not wired to understand this...it's not consistent with the superficial way in which you think. I didn't see it but they show every person they interviewed? The answer, of course, is "No". They showed the ones who gave the answers that they wanted to hear. Now you are telling me I don't understand the company I worked for for 30 years. I said nothing of the sort. I'm sure you understand IBM. What I said was that you don't understand that GM is different from IBM. people are important in any industry, including making automobiles. I haven't suggested otherwise. Only that keeping skilled people at IBM is more important than keeping the unskilled at GM. You have to have people, but at IBM they're harder to replace because they're skilled and the investment in the people is much larger. Again, there isn't an assembly line job that can't be handled by any high-school graduate given hours or days to learn the job. Some jobs at IBM require years of intense study to learn and a significant number could not be performed by someone who hasn't had post k-12 study under ANY circumstances.