Since Hackett, all that Ford was and what it could be has been destroyed. The light and sense of unity has been eliminated. Bill Ford's greed and blind stupidity had led us down this path. Time will tell the sad story of how Bill Ford and Jim Hackett destroyed Ford Motor Company forever. Walking the halls of Ford is like walking the halls of the Titanic as it was sinking. The life has been bled from our peers eyes. Every day feels like we are all the walking dead. It is so sad, and nobody will stop the destruction. The Board of Directors sits and watches the slow destruction.
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Jacket was an id--t and Farley is worse! It’s over
I am seeing the same situation at the suppliers. It is just sad. Hiring unqualified personel, hiring based on diversity and origin is meaningless if product and profit have faulted. Need to get back to the core values of engineering, product development and manufacturing.
Anyone else’s morale increase when working from home?
Thank you corona virus.
I no longer have to deal with watching my coworkers loafing and backstabbing all day.
It is more difficult for the Toxic Ford Culture to sustain when people can’t spend their days in fake meetings with each other or walking the hallways for hours. Now they must have conference calls and webex meetings to do their gossiping, scheming and plotting. The most determined among them will find away to continue in their wicked ways.
If the right 20% of people were laid off, it would improve the company. The id–ts in charge always keep the problem employees and often promote them.
The ironic thing is JH’s Silicon Valley credentials are completely fraudulent. His tech experience consists of shipping furniture from Grand Rapids to Apple’s offices. It’s not like Steelcase was creating search algorithms. Total poser and Bill buys it hook, line and sinker.
Jim still thinks he can turn Oakwood and Village into the Bay Area and offer neat things to attract the brightest and the best.
No, Jim....you’ll attract people who like neat things.
Something is very different.
Ford has always had culture issues and has gone through periods of insanity.
This feels like the death of Ford.
The board of directors is not providing the desperately needed reality check.
The CEO has abandoned the true mission of the company to chase data mining gold.
It is sad when your entire work group thinks #1 and #2 are a joke.
People are openly mocking #1 and #2 in the office.
The Huddle has become a source of comedy. We book a conference room to watch and
treat it like a bad reality TV show.
The #2 biographic videos are also a source of comedy.
Bill Ford better find someone else to lead the company before these two clowns bankrupt the company.
PD here.
Survived 08/09 and you are right things went back to the Ford Normal until things started to get real in 17' Fields was the 1st victim. They offered lucrative 18 month deals for everyone cept PD. That really $...ked. Then came the Jimbo regime. Well et's just say it's been more than interesting since the PRP in 18' and Phases 3 & 4 of the Stupid Redesign. Thing is they let the same people "redesign" the business units that were already inefficient. So all the managers who were promoted prior to SRD that propelled the inefficiencies were left to layout another plan. Makes Ford sense.
Here' to hoping they have another PRP and icing on the cake would be for it to be enhanced as it was in 18'. It would only make sense to make some sort of offer to folks 55+ on their way out to get them off the books especially in these times with all that was going on prior to Covid - 19.
I for one have had enough of this clown show.
I know this site will tend to gather the negative opinions, but I am shocked at some of the comments on how bad things are.
I retired in Nov '18 on the PRP and the company, to me, felt like it always had for 33 years. Always struggling to find direction, qualtiy problems, questionable management and processes, but generally people seemed content with working at Ford.
I understand the horrors of going through the SRD, as I was a survivor from the 2008 mess. Once things settled - everything went back to the "Ford normal".
Have things gone horribly downhill since the end of 2018?
We need to hear from PD folks - seems like most input here is from IT.
It is sad. The 2008/9 years were the good times compared to this.
There is no real leadership.
There is no real leadership.
Management is apathetic.
Talent isnt rewarded.
We're all winners merits defeat any incentive to work harder.
There is no joy in coming to work.
There is no coherent vision.
Ford does not know the market.
New talent isnt utilized.
Common sense has been gutted.
Employees suffered through 2019 cuts and get punished with 54% bonus.
Ford wants to be the model of diversity, everything else like being an automaker is extremely low priority.
Corpororate mantras have become more important than actually doing anything.
Contant propaganda that outside industry and consultants know best.
The problems are all self inflicted.