So much inefficiencies at Ford
Ford has way too many useless employees. They have no work to do when they are working from home. Those who are on site are lazy, they only want more overtime. The older workforce are sitting around waiting for a buyout package. Leadership are creating more meetings, spreadsheets, and ppt to make themselves look important. The company is headed for a big failure.
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Had zero to do with any of it.
Start started at $5 on March 2020, and capped out at $25 only a few months ago. They enjoyed the boon of a 500% increase, and while times were good, like at ALL corporations, they thought nothing of it.
Now, it's time to pay the piper. The markets are coming to reclaim 80% or more, of what they gave. Corporations will perceive devastation, and cut heads accordingly.
I said sell Ford stock at $24. There's are gaps up the azz leading all the way back to $5. Yeah, Ford can go all the way back to $5 and even lower.
The perception of prosperity was always the stock market. Perception, not reality.
With all the recalls, you'd think there is plenty of work and damage control to do at Ford. I'd try to get a job in those areas of the company for job security.
People working on site are being overworked, and they are not offering OT for anything. Some people haven't seen their teammates since the beginning of this COVID cr-p and wfh. No one cares about morale anymore.
Oh Boy is right...
oh boy
There are departments sitting around with no work to do? Man, I would love to know where those groups are because we have had more work than people for years (and we continue to lose people).
Yeah not admitting a person was a bad hire and letting them go is difficult for management. We had a LL5 who brought in about 20 youngsters into a group that was primarily 60+ and then set about proclaiming how she had single-handedly solved the seniority mix and that the 20 youngsters were fully trained and productive. 5 years later all but 3 were still totally useless. But the LL5 can’t admit it because she proclaimed loudly and widely her false accomplishment. 2 of the 3 competent ones left Ford. The other is planning to leave.
The same LL5 released all her tech specialists, and then promoted three of the incompetent youngsters to LL6 the next week.
Such is the Ford way. The LL5 told one of the departing tech spec LL6 that he was her competition. Guess she found a way to eliminate her competition. Maybe good for her Ford career but not good for Ford.
Funny, no mention of management.
You know the people that make the decisions and are mostly bad but never removed from service but promoted.
While I agree with most of those points stated there's percentage that work to try to make a difference but are pushed down because of bureaucracy/politics almost like being back in high school.
The old management perpetuates the new management....the endless cycle continues as actual working talent comes and goes. Sad but true.
Funny, no mention of management.
You know the people that make the decisions and are mostly bad but never removed from service but promoted.
While I agree with most of those points stated there's percentage that work to try to make a difference but are pushed down because of bureaucracy/politics almost like being back in high school.
The old management perpetuates the new management....the endless cycle continues as actual working talent comes and goes. Sad but true.
You're painting with a really broad brush there, even if to some extent paints the picture we see at Ford. In general there isn't OT pay for salaried heads, and where it had been possible isn't now due to the financials. So no incentive for "lazy WFH types" to want more hours, and at in my area at least there is way way way more that management wants to see done than capable people to do it. The problem I see is hiring incompetents in desperation, but not letting them go when after 90 days it's clear they aren't ever going to get ramped up to productive. We have someone like that in our area, what should be a 5-10 minute session of showing them how to do something the first time through is still an hour or two working session many months later. EG "how do I write my objectives" Ummmm, if you can't figure that out or BS something you're neither qualified for doing the work or being a credit stealing manager.
I would fire 33% on the spot and still continue operations... go find another job people...do not wait to be fired