I had first joined GM as an intern and had a great time learning about the corporate world, as this was my first real world experience. There was a program called the ambassador program, which allowed GM employees to rent any GM car for free for a week every 3 months, and I was able to rent the Cadillac XTS as an intern! it was great, I got an offer and I was so happy that I got a full time offer before graduating. HOWEVER, when I was a full time software developer, everything changed. The ambassador program had gone away when I joined, I was drastically underpaid ($60,000) but most importantly, my team lead was the biggest jerk I’d ever worked with. Now you may be wondering why I took the job if I knes my salary. I was an excited college student who didn’t explore more of his options, which I should’ve. That was my mistake and I should’ve done my research. But back to the jerk team lead. I worked in the Roswell, Georgia location. My team lead was the worst person I had ever worked with. He would berate me when I would ask a question about how the application communicated with other systems, and other employees around me heard him talk so meanly to me. It was his freaking job to explain how the application I worked on interacted with other systems. When I’d ask him for help, he would tell me “Google is a valuable resource go use it”. Man. It makes me so frustrated knowing that this d-bag was a team lead. I ran a query by accident one time and it would only take me less than 20 seconds to fix it, but instead he threw what he had in his hand on the floor with such anger and I was shocked that I would see someone act like this in a professional setting. I was just taken aback about it. I ignored it and figured he was just having another bad day. Even on vacation, he would tell me to check my emails throughout the day. That wasn’t a big deal to me but when I came back from vacation he wrote me a nasty email on why I didn’t complete some tasks before I left and I was never told about completing those tasks!!! Heck, there was no agile workflow. I don’t know what the hell we were doing and I never learned anything about the software development process, mainly because of the jerk team lead. I didn’t know what a sprint was, I didn’t know what agile was, heck, I didn’t know what a user story was!!! There was no visibility on what anyone else was working on. I would just get a message from my jerk team lead on skype on what to work on. I was not at my desk by 9 am one time and at 10 am my jerk team lead emailed me with the subject “Tardy Today?” and I was soooo mad because I was working with another colleague on a task. Like bro, just because I am not at my desk does not mean I’m not in the office. What if I was in a car accident? You would not ask me if I was okay?? The final straw was when I was not feeling well one morning and he was harassing me to come into the office or I’d get in trouble. So he tagged the manager (who always believed what this jerk would say) and was mad at me for not coming into the office when I asked to work from home. Neither the manager nor the jerk lead believed in work from home. I knew I could not go back so I quit effective immediately without giving a notice because they never deserved it. It took a mental toll on me while I was there because my jerk team lead made the environment so toxic that it was affecting my mental health. Lesson learned: always explore your options before commiting anywhere. And go to a place that will challenge you and that you are surrounded by people who care for you and see your value.
List his name please.
I’ll DM you
I know plenty of ppl at GM IT in all 4 innovation centers. Would be curious about his name and dept too. DM me if you get a chance.
Feel for you, look for another job and write what you went through in your resignation letter
Yeah I’m definitely at a much better place now and prepped for interviews.
This is GMIT, the one benefit of putting up with all that shit is your ability to just check out and get paid while doing some interview prep. At least now you know that this is not normal... Not even for GM... We normally just neglect our employees (15:1 reports to manager)
15 to 1? I have like 30 to 1 right now 😅
Yup that’s just about right lol. No 1 on 1 interaction if any.
This doesn’t surprise me. There are two GMs. Modern progressive GM and good ol’ boys club GM. Glad you moved on
Yeah I’m glad I left. I was passionate about working at an automotive company that made great cars but my experience was just awful. Many new college grads left
Didn’t read bc it was too long, but what did you expect from GM?
The TLDR version is that I was mistreated by a jerk team lead at GM and I never learned anything valuable for my career. But now I’m working at Salesforce and I love it.
Glad to hear that! Happy for you!
in 2022: GM is a living hell.
Always act for yourself. Corporates don't have your welfare in mind. Don't report to HR before you move. Move out!
Exactly! And I was told by a former coworker that they are retaliating against people wanting to work from home because of the coronavirus that they should be “grateful” that they didn’t get laid off