Thread regarding Ford layoffs

Look at all the job postings internally for Ford.... lots of open roles in India and Mexico

Yeah! We don't want bo MBA-ification here at Ford Motor!

Us plant folks have been saying this for years.

We don't even need no engineers. It should all be apprenticed people doing the engineering and planning and selling. No college degrees wanted or needed!

@1lfh+1oVcjspn ... welcome to the MBA-ification of engineering and I.T. waste, waste, and more waste.

There will be less than 10k salaried employees in SE Michigan by the end of 2024. This is inside information from a very reliable source. Plan accordingly.

@arz,
No, the customers are not going to pay it. They are going to buy something other than a Ford.

We need you all to train the offshore folks how to do the jobs, then we can move them. Why else would you need to come in? The offshore management needs some how to training.

Please note how all the new management positions are filled with folks typically from other regions, these jobs are going, going, going and will be gone soon. Train-the-trainer is a good term for this.

My boss also wants me coming in and in the same room sitting on his lap, he must be making up for his insecurities and he also needs to remember this isn't the only employer / industry in town. There is nothing holding anyone back from leaving with these portable 401K plans. You want a raise beyond and above inflation, start a position somewhere else and you will see 10% easily. Good thing happened when I came in is that I ran across my old manager and was asked if I am interested in coming back to my old department . . .

The boss actually reduces my efficiency downward as I work more hours at home and have been working my hour drive times to and from the office. I really don't care what they want, but I take an easy hour eating with old associates for lunch catching up and no one has had any positives of coming in, besides getting some highlighters and notepads.

I thought it was interesting that we needed to be in the office when a whole section of engineering was sent to Brazil

Working on a project where 85% of the job was outsourced to India. Here we are, two months behind. PM in US can't get India to do work. The few things they do produce break the existing system. In a review today, the director (of course someone we over paid to come in from the west coast), suggested that all of this could be easily solved if we all working in the same room. Really? They deliberately sent all this to India, and now they want us in the same room. No desire to go to India and who knows how long it will take to get visas for them to come here. The people leading this company are buffoons.

LCCs was was the plan long before the strike. No UAW contract would've changed that.

This country is so F up. No worries, Ford just received $9.2 billion from the government to stay in business for 2 more years.

The customers are gonna pay for it. Cars doubled in price over the last 10 years, they will double again by 2033. Get ready for $200,000 F-150’s