Here’s Why There’s a Problem
Car companies used to be places where car guys worked. Engineers, gearheads. People who at least liked cars and thought of them as more than commodities – like toothpaste, say.
Today, they are places where former insurance company and fast food guys work.
Like Jose Tomas, who is – well, was – GM’s chief human resources officer. He’s been fired – apparently – for unspecified reasons after only about eight months on the job. Might have been an ass grabber but probably got axed because he is still a guy.
If he was straight, he never stood a chance.
Tomas previously held “leading posts” at Anthem, the insurance giant and Burger King Corp.
GM’s current CEO Mary Barra, herself a human resource veteran, said that Tomas had a “well-rounded background” and lots of experience managing “a complex global employee base.”
Not much about cars – for either of them.
But a great commitment – for both of them – to “changing GM’s long-standing culture of dysfunction,” as the trade publication Automotive News put it. Which – as this column has noted before – translates into English roughly as follows:
Cars are incidental – and car guys (especially guys) irrelevant or at least inconvenient.
Race and sexual identity politics are everything. Push it, hard.
Because what’s between your legs – and what you do with what’s between your legs – is critically relevant to the sort of car you might drive. Ditto your hue.
So goes the logic.
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