My team can't lose one more person. Literally. We are barely making it as it is. One more person and either all of us will quit or we'll stay but things just won't get done. When people talk about more layoffs I can't even imagine it as a possibility. That's the point we're at.
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Has anyone impacted by this mess already been able to successfully find another opportunity? Mainly asking to gage how difficult and long it will be to find something else. Thx
@ccp you miss the point. The GSRs aren’t doing the work. In this case they chose not to do any work. The LL3 was literally attending weekly project status meetings for a year along with five LL6s, two LL5s, 29 GSRs and two PM. The whole project was a joke, nothing was accomplished although people faked progress and claimed they were working hard. The LL3 is either an id--t or he was just there to pass along fake news to the LL2. Anyone with a pulse and a few brain cells could figure out after one meeting that no one had a clue. Six months in they paid consultants for analysis, didn’t listen to the consultants and carried on another six months of time wasting meetings.
In reality the whole lot should be canned as there isn’t a competent person in the whole bunch. The LL3 is a fool who keeps canning all the competent people and bringing in more mouth breathers.
OP - one more person on your team leaves, your whole team will not quit en masse. Stop being so dramatic. Get to work or get out, your choice.
They will fight with each other and bankrupt the company. This will happen sooner than later.
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You are spot on! Doug Field is on a mission to fix Ford Motor Company. We all need to get behind him to ensure the company's electrified and digital future!
Every LL3, LL4, LL5 in model e can be cut. These people get huge salaries and bonuses and have failed to deliver. One reorg after another scrapped. Processes started and stopped. DF recognizes this to a large extent, as he if bringing in many outsiders to lead and implement new processes. He just isn't dumping the useless existing management fast enough. A bunch of management pulling big salaries to be told what their organization should do.
Ford still have hundreds if not thousands of 6 figure income employees with minimal to nothing to do at work. Leaderships sent these GSR to assembly and powertrain plants to stand around collecting assembly issues - not fixing the issues. Something a high school student can do for $15 an hour. Many of these emploare working from home - home renovations. These are underutilized employees and this is how Ford operates for many years.
Wake up Farley. You need to do a better job.
@jia - Seriously?! Bring in a competent LL3? Is that person going to do the GSR work?
But they probably will bring in another LL3. That seems to be the trend.
@OP not true at all. Groups like IT operations and IT infrastructure have 50-70% non-contributors in GSR ranks (mixture of wholly incompetent, retired on the job, suck-ups, friends and family). Not to mention the incompetent LL3, LL4s, LL5s and LL6s.
They need to bring in a competent LL3 and either clean house or outsource to Kyndryl etc.
Four voluntaries announced in the Southeast Market Area and the related regions this morning. One LL5 and three SG7's. All have either 30 years or 55 + 10 years experience. Many, many more to come around the US in the coming days. These folks intend to retire on 10/31/22 and take the lump sum. The brain drain is significant and is concerning to say the least.
What about your LL5 and or LL4?
They can be cut with minimal business disruption.
As others have said here, there is always room to cut. Saw an external job posting from someone in my org not 2 weeks after many in that department were let go. I suspect they will post in the US and not get any qualified candidates so that they can use 'low-cost sourcing' - yes, that is an an actual term. In fact, they will rate your team as low performers and have an easy excuse to get rid of you.
The are continuing their tradition of the last decade of laying off salaried jobs and the US and moving to India. They have moved entire organizations and departments there. No one is safe in the US if you are salaried.
They can still layoff in US and hire in India, Mexico or Brazil.
@OP. Not true. There are still plenty of "juicy fatty NA salaries" in your team to be targeted by management. Management don't care about deliverables, nor about work quality. They just care about the bottom line: cutting salaries to increase their bonuses. Expect more layoffs, while the work gets assigned to India, Brazil or Mexico. Heads up! It starts when managers ask to create/update documentation for daily processes, or when you need to train people from those places I listed before. Nobody is safe.