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Long-Term Ugliness

I worked for GM 1952/1960, I worked in experimental engineering for the Cadillac division and in 1960 I was given the highest employee rating in the department.
You were graded on ten areas ( ability, initiative, etc ) Ten being the highest on each of the ten areas. If you were perfect you would wind up with a grade of 100. I received a total score of
92.
A fellow employee with the same classification as I but twenty years more senority signed a union greviance againest management because he was jealous and claimed he was better than I was. After calling in the chief engineer, my supervisor, And the General manager the "Management" agreed to lower my rating to one point below the more senior employee. He was an 82 and they lowered mine to an 81. GM's management was then an old boys network and I suspect it still is. No one there has the balls to do what must be done and unless they bring in new blood and give him total power to do it what's needed I'm afraid theres not a lot of hope for them. For the record I quit two months later and never looked back. I didn't care to work for a company that valued a kiss ass mentality over ability and effort.