Saturn General manager Jill Lajdziak is set to retire from General Motors at the end of this year after twenty-nine years in the GM family. GM says that Lajdziak will exercise some vacation time before her retirement takes effect at the end of the year.
Lajdziak spent her entire life surrounded by the automotive industry; Lajdziak’s father owned a Chevrolet and Oldsmobile dealership when she was a child. Lajdziak has memories as young as three years old helping her father wash cars at the dealership.
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a bachelor of arts degree in business marketing and management Lajdziak went to Proctor and Gamble looking for a possible career. What Lajdziak found instead was what she described as a break for her career when the interviewer asked, “Where would you like to be in five years?”
Lajdiziak said, “I want to be working for GM.” Lajdziak went on to start a career at GM in 1980 as a district sales manager for Chevrolet.
By 1986, Lajdziak had been promoted to be the manager of retailer selection with Saturn. Lajdziak went on to spend 23 years at the executive level with Saturn before becoming General Manager in 1999.
10/27, 7:14 PM
posted by:
A4
“After 23 years of people mispronouncing her name, Lajdziak threw in the towel.”
10/27, 7:20 PM
posted by:
RaineMan
Does anyone really care about another rich exec pulling the ripcord of their golden parachute as the company they were charged with running goes down the drain?
10/27, 7:23 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
I think she should take some time to mull this over.
10/27, 7:24 PM
posted by:
Borat
As a district sales manager she was polishing a lot of knobs (FYI “polishing” was not meant derogatory to Polish audience, ah what the f*ck it was
)
10/27, 7:27 PM
posted by:
A4
Bitch looks like Sweet Tooth from Twisted Metal.
10/27, 7:45 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
I wonder if that no dicker sticker policy also applied to her sex life?
10/27, 8:11 PM
posted by:
johngalt
I figure you’d be the expert, Borat, to ask, “How in the hell do you pronounce that consonant-laden name?” I can’t find the Duke basketball coach’s number, or I’d ask him.
When the mucketymucks at GM were considering promoting her, she thought they asked, “Uranus or Saturn?” to which she immediately replied, “Saturn!” She might still have a job today, had she understood the question…
10/27, 8:20 PM
posted by:
Bankruptcy2009
She is not even 50 and she is retiring as a Millionaire not bad. She all retirement packages were equal Jill
10/27, 8:59 PM
posted by:
carguy123
How nice she is now retiring since saturn had its last nail put in its coffin. I wonder how long she “mulled” over that decision.
10/27, 9:11 PM
posted by:
07grandprix
“Jill plans to enjoy some vacation time before her retirement takes effect at the end of the year.” Umm……aren’t vacation and retirement the same thing???
10/27, 9:16 PM
posted by:
Ashes to Ashes_Dust to Dust
Failed car company (GM); failed car division (Saturn); failed model lineup (all of Saturn); failed management (Jill Lajdziak) = lucrative retirement (via taxpayers). Only in America.
10/27, 9:17 PM
posted by:
A4
Hasn’t she ever heard of ‘going down with the ship’? I mean Saturn will be dead, what, 3 months after this?
10/27, 9:52 PM
posted by:
johngalt
Maybe the 90% pay cuts are real, and take effect January 1. Vacation now, retirement immediately thereafter, and she won’t have to work for pennies on the dollar. Nice timing, Jill. We taxpayers will keep working, waiting quietly for GM to pay us back. I just know we’ll get some huge tax breaks afforded by the repaid loans. Or maybe our government will simply write a check to each of us (with interest, of course).
10/27, 11:57 PM
posted by:
Bankruptcy2009
A4 I think Penske will put up a fight market wise but I think he’s in for a bad surprise if he had no idea what he was getting himself into me thinks. And I think he does’nt know what he is doing! He should of stayed in the Racing and Rent a Truck business where he belongs!
10/28, 12:10 AM
posted by:
PhuckFavre
“10/27, 9:17 PMposted by:A4
Hasn’t she ever heard of ‘going down with the ship’? I mean Saturn will be dead, what, 3 months after this?”
She don’t like going down…she likes getting rear ended
10/28, 12:11 AM
posted by:
howsmydriving
“GM says that Lajdziak will exercise some vacation time before her retirement takes effect at the end of the year.”
Where will she go on vacation? Who will she be staying with? How will she get there? Who’s her travel agent? These are important questions that LLN should have addressed.
10/28, 12:13 AM
posted by:
PhuckFavre
Halloween’s not until this weekend…she needs to take off that mask its scaring the **** outa me.
10/28, 2:13 AM
posted by:
idrinorbarsaku
WHOLY FNCK!!!! Thats the ugliest face I have ever seen!!! Good thing this old witch going!
10/28, 5:53 AM
posted by:
status
I always wondered where the inspiration for the Pontiac Aztek came from…
10/28, 7:57 AM
posted by:
carstuff
bankrupt, what are you talking about? What does Penske have to do with anything?
10/28, 9:16 AM
posted by:
sal500
wonder how much of our tax $$$ will go for her vacation and retirement?! retirement…I thought starurn was no longer, so what else would she do..run another division out of business? maybe buick can hire her.
10/28, 11:21 AM
posted by:
DenverGuy217
She should be forced to drive an Ion sedan for the rest of her life. Anyone involved in greenlighting that stylistic mess should be.
10/28, 11:32 AM
posted by:
BAD124
A4 – “Bitch looks like Sweet Tooth from Twisted Metal”
I almost spit my coffee out. I love that game hahaha!
10/28, 6:35 PM
posted by:
superman
Now that’s a face only a Saturn can love.
10/28, 7:23 PM
posted by:
beatusmongous
http://www.juegomania.org/Twisted+Metal+2/fotos/pc/0/358_c/Caratula+Twisted+Metal+2.jpg