I was a Ford employee over 10 years ago. It was a nice and comfortable job and I left when I wanted to work for a company that did something instead of being an employee who was in line for a pension plan. From what I have heard, Ford hasn't changed, the slackers still rule, decision making is paralyzed and the ones working there are unemployable elsewhere. JF himself feels that way - he almost said that early this year.
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Yeah things are pretty much the same.
Back in the 2008 layoff, I was relatively new Ford. The LL5 gamed the system and flagged their friends as critical employees and flagged the actual critical employees as non-critical. I was shocked that none of the critical employees were critical to Ford. I promptly interviewed got a job offer and showed the offer to the LL5, he was shocked that I planned to leave and told me I was safe from the layoff because of my internal ranking. He convinced me to stay, I stupidly stayed at Ford only to see the same games played over and over again. Thankfully retired now and stress free.