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Executives who mandated return to office do not actually come into the office and everyone knows it
I work at a major domestic OEM. I will not say which one but if you pay attention the details will probably make it obvious. We had a return to office mandate rolled out this past year. Four days a week. Leadership talked about collaboration, innovation, building culture. All the things. What they
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OEM pulling back incentives while raising prices and dealers are being left holding the bag
Our OEM has been quietly pulling back on incentive support all year while new vehicle prices have crept up because of tariff pass-through. Meanwhile customers are walking because monthly payments don't pencil. We're stuck in the middle and with too much inventory we can't move at a price that
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When will the bleeding stop?
The Automotive News distress tracker is north of 60,000 supplier jobs cut across North America. I've been in the supply chain side of this industry for 15 years and I've never seen this many names I recognize on the distress list. Smaller Tier 3 and Tier 4 shops are the ones getting crushed — they
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ANOTHER restructuring?
Third restructuring in four years at my company. Every time there is a period of genuine uncertainty where nobody tells you anything, then a town hall where leadership says all the right things about the future and the team, then a period of waiting, then an announcement that the people it affected
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Chinese sourced components
I'm not going to say which OEM because it doesn't matter, but the directive came down and it is what it is. Completely remove Chinese-origin content from our supply chain by Q4 2026. I'm going to be honest with you, I don't know if that's physically possible on our product lines in that timeframe.
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