A Good Sign indeed. Everything is getting back to the "norm".
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I think people are blaming Hackett because he’s the current CEO. I’m sure he’d be taking the credit if sales, quality and launches had improved year over year.
Much of the structures and modular platform will require a lot less R & D due to electric vehicle architecture. Redesigning the aesthetics will be more of a challenge to differentiate designs interiors/exteriors.
They aren't worried about the shortage of local talent.
Think Mobility.
Ford is garbage now and I'm just here for a paycheck and because I'm afraid I'll die if something happens to me and I don't have health insurance.
Why are people just blaming Hackett. This is the game that The Ford family plays “oh it wasn’t me it was Hackett or Boston consulting”. The Ford family are fully on board with what is happening. After laying off many good people they promoted loads of people to new positions, then told them to “just look busy until we sort thing out”. All the promotions were “diversity candidates”. This added management layers & bureaucracy, exactly what was said they were removing. Ford said they’d save $600 mil, yet they spent more than that on that hobo piss soaked train station!
Everyone I know is working on an exit plan, particularly our millennials.
Ford is concerned that there aren’t enough automotive engineers for the industry coming in. Wake up call, you treat the oldies like c-ap, the youngsters see it. They don’t have the golden handcuffs the oldies have so they’re out.
I believe Ford stuck it to Salaried employees receiving or planning to receive health care. Retired Union employees have health care plans that are still very good.
Yes, I believe Wall Street halfway trusts Barra. Wall Street seems to have little confidence in Hackett. I believe some of the odd decisions recently made by Ford were in an attempt to please Wall Street and bump the stock prices. I speculate stock prices could be one of the reason Ford recently stuck it to retiree health care as Legacy costs are one of the things that Wall Street dislikes.
With Barra I believe Wall Street is not un nerved as much if at all. So I would say that would be different.
It's the same feeling at GM too guys, I came from Powertrain in Pontiac and that was a really good environment and allot of fun.
The things you all posted here is the same feeling we have with Mary Barra, nobody has a clue to what these CEOs visions and or direction is.
All I know is that do many people we're needlessy fired at both companies.
Totally agree with both responses. Things are no longer the same. Ford is no longer what it used to be. Gone is much of the sense of community that we have all come to know and love in the past. It is now a place of fear and superficiality. Gone is the sense of family. It is now only a cold, uncaring place to put 40 hours in and draw a check. Hackett and has destroyed all that the company stood for. He is not preparing the company for a future, he is tearing it apart from the inside.
There may be less activity on this site but many Ford employees, not to mention those forced out, do not feel “normal”. Some decisions were made by leadership in the last year that have forced people to realize the company they trusted and were loyal to no longer exists. In time people will likely find a new “normal” but it has not gone back to the “normal” that existed a year or two ago.
I would say quite the opposite. You must not work for Ford..