Getting Out Of Dodge

摘要

GENEROUS MOTORS IT isn't. Not anymore. Just ask the several hundred General Motors Corp. managers who were fired on Mar. 28. They were each taken aside and given a severance package, told to surrender their keys and badges, and allowed a month to turn in their cars. And while the hundreds of layoffs didn't amount to the "Black Tuesday" many managers expected, GM is just getting started. It plans many more such job cuts this year. No sir, life in Motown isn't much fun these days. The rank and file of the United Auto Workers may be trembling in their steel-toed boots as GM and Ford Motor Co. gear up to impose tough new contracts and layoffs. But in the design studios, engineering labs, and corporate offices, the companies' white-collar professionals are experiencing the same kind of anxiety, gloom, and resignation as their blue-collar brothers and sisters.