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What happens if you don't attend the training?

• Tangurena2 4y ago
  It was described as mandatory, although you had a choice of which courses you wanted to take. The impression I was left with was that they believed that the company would never fire them (this would have been true for GM, but not for EDS, for whom they now worked). The culture at GM was such that a lot of people were "lifers". The book "The Organization Man" [0] seemed to describe how many people lived/acted. EDS was founded by Ross Perot, who was a very charismatic person [1]. He was also a "love him or hate him - there's no in between" person. I admired his ability to stir up GM and I remember many of his antics that annoyed the pants off of the board at GM [2]. According to Perot, the culture at IBM was also full of "lifers" which led to his founding EDS. 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Organization_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Organization_Man 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot > Perot joined the Boy Scouts of America and made Eagle Scout in 1942, after 13 months in the program. After 2 years as a scout, I was still a tenderfoot. :) 2 - He annoyed the board so much that they ended up paying him over $100M to go away (his shares were promised to be between $X & $Y, so they payed the difference between market and $X). I thought that he had a chance to make changes at GM and turn the company around. The execs were terribly insulated from reality, but they chose to live in their bubble rather than do the (painful) things that GM needed to do to survive.