This is long overdue. Ford needs to cut and trim the workforce. Hourly is coming after their UAW contract completed. Good luck everyone.
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I think people need to be careful when throwing the word slacker around.
AS a former BIT, I was forced to go to a particular PDO - not given a choice which one I'd like go to, just told this is your new L6/L5 one day. Once I got there and relocated, not even taken around to be introduced. Have had multiple conversations with my "people leader" about assigning me more work, giving me projects, etc. Instead, nothing. Oh, he is nice enough person, but no one really seems to know what it going on. I ask to look for another internal position - sure no problem, expect that I am facing the same ageism that exists for people over 50 in the outside world. I want to work, but feel as if something or someone is not letting me, like I am on some reserve bench for "just in case"...either they need people quickly for some project, or need people to be walked out the door. In fact, that is just what I am doing...taking a bunch of training (inside and outside the company) and just waiting until I get tapped on the shoulder to be asked to leave. May have to transition to another career/line of work totally to find other employment. I am looking none the less.
No, it is upper management's fault for foisted this massive change on an organization and expect everything to run smoothly, and for condensing jobs & jobs roles and then leaving up to each person to fed for themselves.
It is a cluster f–k of the highest order, and has left too many people in some areas and not enough in other areas. This is why I would caution those complaining about slackers....you have no idea of what some people are going through and how they were just shoved into areas without a clear plan.
How sad you need to use an article from almost 5 months ago to get conversation going.
@3jka is correct. It is the LL that protects them that is the problem. In ITO we have many slackers at GSR and LL6. Our slacker LL6 is protected by the LL3 as he was in his mentor circle. The slacker LL6 reads magazines and books all day long, none of them work related. Since the LL6 is a slacker most of our GSR are slackers also. The slackers generate award certificates and recognitions for each other, all total BS. Then the LL2 / LL3 / LL4 / LL5 hold award ceremonies where the slackers are honored for their fake achievements, and later promoted based on the fake achievements. It is a struggle to keep a straight face at the award ceremonies. One evening a coworker and I decided to have some fun and submitted numerous obviously false achievement awards for a notorious slacker, the bonehead is still talking today about how hard he worked on those achievements and how much the LL2 appreciated his efforts. Anyone else see a problem when the management team cannot discern what is real and what is fake?
Also be very careful about upsetting the Apple cart. An incompetent, obnoxious and unwilling GSR was being passed from LL6 to LL6 for years. He finally landed under an LL6 who did the right thing, put him on a PIP and then terminated him. That LL6 while doing the right thing he was then blacklisted by a powerful LL and pushed out the door. This is the Ford life.
@2khz you are absolutely right, but the problem isnt the slacker, its the LL that protects them. I have a HUGE slacker that I cannot get rid of because the LL5 told me that talk of getting rid of the slacker is a "non starter". The slacker watches videos all day long and does maybe 15 minutes work. The videos are not Digital worker"how to's" either.They are funny cat and drunk people on bourbon street videos. The minute the LL5 is gone, I am putting the slacker in the torture chamber!
Maybe Ford would be fine if they let go 5,000 salaried employees. I think it depends on which employees they let go. Each team has some high performers and some slackers. If the slackers are gone there’s little impact. If the high performers and/or those with expertise are let go they are sorely missed. The average employees and the slackers don’t have the ability or desire to pick up the slack. From my experience they have not yet found a method for fleecing only the slackers.
Ford can let go of 5000 salary workers and the company will be just fine.
old news!
Why are you trolling - mad at the world? This was an article from May.