It is really hard to understand why Ford's decision makers think it is cheaper to constantly bring in new people and train them than to try to retain people with experience by giving them adequate compensation. Will our leadership ever get their head around that?
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@1oiz+1fjMfuJx If you are talking about HTHD, that program is a joke. Not even close to being like Tech Spec LL6 compensation. The only thing that is guaranteed is an increased bonus target (not by much). You are eligible for stock grants, but you better get on the friends and family plan. If you were at the middle of your salary band before getting HTHD, you will still fall within the new range, so your salary will stay the same. Yes, your cap is bigger, but how do you expect to hit that new cap in any reasonable amount of time? Through merit increases?
That point is totally spot on. After the SRD dust had mostly settled I was looking at rotating to a new slot and was looking at an area that I'd enjoyed working with before and was well laden with Tech. LL6s who were still underpaid for that field. When I went to check with the ones I knew personally on the reality of the position they were all gone. That told me everything I needed to know about that area and the company overall.
There is an initiative to designate some IT positions as high value. This came about when a number of tech companies significantly raised their base salaries. When leadership explained the program in LL6 meeting I thought you got to be pulling my leg, you SRDed all our tech spec LL6s because they were the highest paid and you kept all the poor performing lower paid workers. Now you are increasing the salary of an equivalent number of GSR8 to significantly more than the tech spec LL6 were making. And the chosen GSR8s are quite frankly neither highly skilled nor motivated. What a joke, only at Ford.
Why are these white folks so salty with diversity?
If that is true about "high tech critical" and the LL5s didn't rely on their LL6s to designate GSRs appropriately, then those LL5s should be broomed. LL5s are clueless about what GSRs do what.
@tre+1fjMfuJx It is only true at the poorly run companies, which Ford is a prime example.
Learned this from our LL5 today.
In order to retain tech talent LL5s we’re given some slots that they can designate as “high-tech critical ”. These slots will have salary band that caps at 2X GSR8 salary band.
In true Ford fashion the number of slots has nothing to do with true need for talent. It is more games by the LL5+, yet another secretive popularity contest.
LL5 showed all the selected people under LL4. Not a single one of them is worthy. Brown nosers and friends and family. Our LL5 got two slots, what a coincidence we have two outstanding GSR8 who deserve the slots, wait for it, they were not the two selected. One selected babysat the LL5 son during the day, zero skills. The other the office clown, great story teller, marginal skills.
Diversity is the reason that Ford accepts these costs. Every experienced white employee who leaves makes room for Ford to hire another person of color.
Oh that makes it right then. WTH? "We are all bad as others! Yeay!"
It’s the same way in other companies/industries.