All managers must work 50 % of time per month on on the factory floor to assembly cars and trucks like ordinary workers !!! MUST BE MANDATORY!!!, Lack of doing this way must make automatic termination of their job at FORD ! Drove the automaker to make tis mandatory !!!
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Shut the hell up man, would you.
You want office staff to build vehicles? That sounds good in theory, but why would you want to inflict that level of pain upon our customers. That would only serve to help competitors.
You have not spent much time in a plant have you, maybe none
Factory of Tomorrow will reduce the need of humans in general so why would we throw more humans who don't know how to work the line
Be careful here - Ford might be watching. The comment talking not nice about Chicago Assembly world praying to St. Floyd was removed...
Perhaps there should be MANDATORY grammar tests before being hired to work anywhere at Ford. Go get an education with tuition assistance offered by the company and your Union. No excuses,
Remember it's - not all of them of course - these middle management types that are either doing the hiding or hiding/covering up the folks who are non performers.
They are the ones that have betrayed upper managements objectives and built these fiefdoms that have undermined the companies efforts and successes.
Drain the swamp
hmmmmm.............. "as your line of thinking is dangerous to the long term survivial of the company."
And............. the the long term survival of the company isn't in question as we speak/type?
How's that working out for you.
This 3rd party would hopefully not be BCG as it was during SRD. Instead it should be a 3rd party who would become familiar with the day to day operations of the groups in which they are assigned. These would be folks who have plenty of experience at spotting posers/loafers and experts at draining company resources making it easy to spin off management that has been responsible for covering up slackers and promoting Good Ole boy cultures and nepotism.
This hypothetical 3rd party would be professional and not fraternize with the business unit they are assigned to. You know no golf/bowling leagues, Irish Hill neighbors and such.
To poster @bvl+17404FLY
Ford already has a third party attending to the cuts - it's called Boston Consulting.....they are the architects of SRD. Yes, while it may remove some favoritism, it also means you have an organization that does not know the staff or abilities of the staff nor the institiutional knowledge they have that may be walking out the door if they are walked out - they make their reommedations strictly by the numbers only.
Glad you are enjoying retirement - and glad you retired, as your line of thinking is dangerous to the long term survivial of the company.
Good point about using a 3rd party to gut the management ranks within this diseased company. SRD was a sham. Allowing the same management teams to Redesign the business unit they were in charge of is absurd. These are the same overpaid jokers who helped get us where were at in the first place.
A good example of these clubs was back in 08/09 cuts after everyone was presented an offer. There were LL6's in our PD group who did less than an hour a day work on average most of whom were just being covered up by their golf league buddies. These 6's were virtually all packed up boxes stacked desktop high prior to the cuts. They were never selected and the look on their faces when we all returned to our cubicals after the shoulder taps was priceless.
Thinning the slacker Good ole boy clubs with a 3rd party way up front would have paid dividends. Morale would have instantly improved and the results of the redesigned business unit would have beared fruit.
We could also replace the entire assembly line with robots and not skip a beat. . .
These posts that shout with incorrect grammar, misspelled words and too many exclamation points are tiresome.
"Just because we are not on the line does not mean we do not work."
To a point. I think we may be able to cut 40% tomorrow in some of these cushy roles and wouldn't skip a beat. I just retired this year and over a long tenure witnessed an awful lot of folks just hiding not doing much of anything. Maybe averaging 2 - 3 hours of work/day.
I know it's not popular but I think a 3rd party walking the floors who would not be able to fraternize with the staff would be a good way to do the cuts. There a just to many good ole boy clubs in Dearborn on Oakwood Blvd.
You want marketing people putting together an engine? IT people working on installing interiors? Finance people in the paint booth? You must be a senior leader to come up with a brilliant idea like that.
Please try and post a comment that is at least worth discussing.
Who will move those vehicles, invoice those vehicles, collect money for those vehicles, work with dealers? Guess we can all build cars that sit on the lot and rot. Just because we are not on the line does not mean we do not work.