So, now that FMC has announced a prolonged closure of Oakville....what the heck are they gonna do with all those extra peeps????? And how bad could there long range planning be to let this happen in the first place???
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Two days left and I have no idea if I have a job Monday. This company has lost its leadership in so many ways.
@cgqs+1rZUOEqd Do you truly think that Bill Ford is overseeing the closure?
This company is a complete joke being run by incompetent and uncaring people. When was the last time HR actually helped anyone? These people have five days left and no one has communicated their future. Did we move our most incompetent to oversee the closure?
Oakville is probably like a lot of other Ford plants. My time there was love or hate. I actually loved the launch work. But the people there could be awful. It was like they were so entrenched in their plant politics, that the shop people were afraid to make independent decisions. I have a feeling that the other Ford plants are probably the same.
That doesn't mean I want to see them all lose their jobs.
I am on the fence about the future of OAC. I won't be surprised if Ford attempts to keep something in Canada. But I also won't be surprised if whatever was planned for OAC gets offshored to low cost countries.
A few weeks from shutting down and no one knows what their future is. When did we lose our focus as a company and stop caring about our people?
does seem like oakville is toast alas. probably cant say anything due to union contracts. what was the canadian plant that made the grand marq/crvic? rest in peace, lumbering beasts... you served us well. st. thomas!
@pdj Small teams are better unless they comprised of yes-men, job hoppers, career builders or nitwits. My old boss came from EV and he was all 4 of those rolled up into one. He was, however, an excellent Power Point slide creator.
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Layoff.
Anyone know what the plan is for salaried employees? Relocation? Layoffs?
Fun fact - EV's are nothing but expensive toys. They're a joke. Sit in the parking lot and watch the EV drivers arrive to work in the morning and circle around looking for a place to charge, and then listen to them relentlessly complain about the cars parked at charging stations for too long. Frankly, there shouldn't even be chargers at work, let alone free charging, but if they didn't offer thit, many would unload their EV's. These people spend their lives planning their routes over range limitations and charger locations. It's a joke. People with common sense don't want to pay for that experience, and here we are.
The hubris is dead. Rivian and Lucid hit 52week lows today. People are fooling themselves if they think Tesla is immune from this paradigm shift. Ford’s fast follow mentality (not lead) has wasted time and resources. If they don’t start cleaning house, we are cooked. Simple as that. We have so many layers of high comp players; time to cut the fat in the planning and strategy ranks. Also need to cut that California skunk works disaster.
You can't have non-truck people plan and design the next best truck, you can't have non EV people design the next Tesla ki-ler, that's the fundamental problem that exists and will continue to lead to problems with these experiments that the company is conducting. It has been proven that small focused engineering teams have been able to deliver amazing products but key is small and focused teams, stripped of all the nay-sayers that otherwise create chaos in the organization.
Edge and old Nautilus very high quality and safety. Mgmt: Let's get rid of them.
I'm calling out now! Oakville will never reopen.........
Can't complete with $2/hour non-union Mexican labor.
So much for the Edge. Great car
What about the flying cars with anti gravity drive?
Seriously, my cell phone battery is going dead, no big deal, I still can get to work or drive up north. EV battery dead? We'll have resort to 1960s - 70s tech to get around... A thumb in mid air by the road.
This page is the answer to what they will do with extra people - layoffs.
As for the planning error, I can tell you that it comes from a certain Model e leader telling everyone how fast new technology gets adopted. He kept putting charts up about how fast flat screen tvs and cell phones were adapted. Not taking into consideration that asking people to pay $500-$1000 for a new technology is much easier then. $50-100k.
Will EV be the future, probably. But many people though that about 3D movies but they remain niche after 50 years of trying to get them to catch on.