General Motors confirmed on Friday that it has terminated one of its top U.S. executives for the Cadillac brand for “violating a company policy.”
Chase Hawkins most recently held the position of U.S. vice president of Cadillac sales and service. His replacement, according to a GM spokesperson, will be announced at a later date.
Mr. Hawkins joined Cadillac in 2010 and served as director of sales and service for the luxury brand in the Northeast region before moving into the U.S. sales and service job in June 2012. He has worked for GM since 1996 in various positions in South Africa, Mexico, and the Middle East.
Cadillac sales in the United States during the first half of 2013 have increased 33.2 percent from the same period in 2012 as GM’s luxury brand enjoys sales success of the ATS and XTS sedans — becoming the fastest-growing major automotive brand during May 2013.
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For violating a company policy hmmm,you cannot get more vague than that:)
Actually there is probably an agreement for Jim leaving that will not let GM be more specific.
Read in auto news that Chase stated it was “more of a personal issue. ”
So my guess would be some kind of work interpersonal relationship problem? GM cannot comment on such things. This is not the first time at GM that someone gets the boot for nebulous reasons they cannot state.
Steroids?
Just Kidding.
It could be for many reasons and most are ones we will never hear about.
I am not worried as the increase in sales is more about the addition of cars like the XTS, ATS and will be more about the CTS soon. It is the product that has done more for sales than any person here. Anytime you go from no product or old product you should see a bump like this. The key is to keep that bump long term that is where the sales staff come in.
Also the sales percentages are often misleading. One could say that ATS sales are up 100 percent from 2011 since there were none made. Raw unit sold are what is important and not so much percentages as the percentage can always look better than the unit numbers. That is why they are what are given to the public.
If your sales are in the dumper you can get a big boost if you just sell a few cars and report the percentage.
Either way the Caddy sales have been good and will continue to improve with the new product.
He might have been terminated for something as simple as misuse of company email or having a personal relationship with someone within his organization. It’s a newsworthy post, but doesn’t offer any details – not surpriseingly.
I wish to protest you guys captioning the image of my Esky Premium grille every time there’s a blog post about corporate mischief.
Stop it! 🙂
Next time, we’ll try searching for a mugshot of the person in question 🙂
Was he the guy flipping people off in the Camaro…
I know him personally having worked with him for 2 years.
Just want to say he got what he deserved! Albeit 4 years too late!
I bet he gets a great pension,or buy out!!
Trust me when I say the guys was a pompus ***hole! , he would repeatedly take credit for someone elses work and back stabbed people climbing up the GM ladder, no wonder he got fired, he thought he was untouchable, even when his hands were down the girl( or the guys) undies!! eat *#$% and enjoy the embarrassment chase! what goes around comes around!….
This is the problem with the current time we live in, you can get fired for just about anything and then the company doesn’t have to step to the plate and give out the info as to why a worker got fired!
They will make statements at work and say this person did this or that but wont say who the person is! What a load of crap, stop protecting these people! If I make a mistake, make a company release explaining what I did, as long as what is released is the truth I have no problem!
People today are so thin skinned and weak minded!