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German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe

28 pointsby JumpCrisscrosstoday at 7:24 PM18 commentsview on HN

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rwmjtoday at 8:34 PM

Not a scientific study, but here in the UK where we don't have tariffs against Chinese car manufacturers, there are loads of electric BYDs and Jaecoos (the "Temu Range Rover") driving around recently.

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netsharctoday at 8:55 PM

Credit Suisse went down 2 years ago in Switzerland, flooding the market with finance and IT people...

grg0today at 8:27 PM

But do they dual-wield?

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sajithdilshantoday at 8:58 PM

I remember seeing a video that labels these people as doing bullshit jobs. As an example in UPS the people that actually delivers the packages are the ones doing the real work. However between those workers and CEO there are like ten or more levels of management and all those people just sitting at an office doing basically nothing.

Same with VW or with any other traditional German company. Sometimes to justify their job they would create problems that doesn’t exist and come up with a solution

emsigntoday at 8:39 PM

At least I hope they leave the corporate culture baggage that has ruined the German car industry behind and do not transplant it into other companies. In which you stick to your old guns and hope that politics protects you with tariffs against any future developments from international competitors on the car market. (It failed. Now the Chinese make better cars than the Germans.)

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Triaengletoday at 8:26 PM

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CrzyLngPwdtoday at 8:11 PM

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