We all know the leadership only sees employees as numbers and couldn't care less whether we're happy and satisfied or not. Now imagine for a moment where we would be if all employees at Ford felt like they mattered to the company. If all of us felt valued and secure in our jobs. If we felt we were well compensated for our work and respected by those who run this place. I can guarantee you the company wouldn't have half of the problems it has now. We'd be able to retain the best talent, everybody would be giving it their 110%, and everybody would be aiming to make the company as successful as possible. As it is right now, few of us even give a damn, and for a good reason.
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I agree, your employer is not your family. However, Ford pretends it is to get unreturned loyalty from its employees. Ford lies.
Your employer is not your family. Your employer does not care about you. It is a mistake to believe otherwise.
To the last poster, so is that how family treats each other?
For SIRP meetings, managers are given a script to read and are instructed not to deviate from it. They are not meant to be two way discussions. They are not exit interviews.
I hear the SIRP short meetings are brutal. The person that hired you (or at least hired you for a transfer) reading a script clinically. They ask you if you have any questions and then don't answer them.
Some of the people worked for the firing manager for years. And the firing manager doesn't even thank them!
At Ford we are all family? Yeah right!
I stopped giving my heart and sweat for this company, when management treated me like a dog. What you did, started to be, never enough. Push, push, push. Instead of addressing the people not pulling their weight. If everyone was pulling their weight, we would have been a well oiled machine. Instead, they burned out the good, and pushed them to the brink, then terminated them. As for management, Garbage in, garbage out. I wouldn't buy a Ford in 2023/24, if my life depended on it! I know who is building and supporting it.
Sadly, Highest Paid is not synonymous with High Achiever.
Ford does care about the employees. The Union is very happy.
@pwb+1iUOeLGW If what you are saying is true, why have they been targeting the consistent top achievers (highest paid) in their layoffs while keeping the deadwood and the mediocre?
Nice response JF. Your not fooling anyone.
Time for some more Quite Quitting….
"secure in our jobs. If we felt we were well compensated" "We'd be able to retain the best talent" are part of the problem. We do have tons of people with out dated skills or who waste much of the work week. In effort to retain the best, we are retaining plenty of dead wood. They won't quit because they can't get another job for the same pay and benefits. A little job insecurity might be the only way to motivate some people. Throwing money at them and saying how wonderful they are has not worked. This board if full of posts from people who don't want to work at Ford yet don't want to retire or quit. If you are so unhappy, get the F out because nothing is going to make you happy.
Farleys job is to keep the NA and European salaried workforce just happy enough not to quit before their lower cost replacements are trained and he can cut the higher cost NA and European salaried workforce. Simultaneously his job is to convince the US congress and senate that he is NOT cutting US workers. There is a reason BF installed a salesman as CEO instead of an engineer. Once the salesman’s job is done he will be replaced with an engineer.
Overall I give Farley a D+ grade. Most seasoned workers can spot the con, however, the younger more naive workers are often fooled for awhile. Politicians often don’t want to see the truth, especially when it doesn’t align with their short term goals
It is no secret what JF thinks about the employees. He made that very clear back in February during his press conference, In fact his whole team made it clear the week of the bonus.
- GSR/LL6 54% - LL5+ 135%
- Kumar TH with graphs
- Farley interview where he made comments about salaried employees.
- Kumar mad somebody taped the TH.
- Farley then tells us the company has heard the voices of the gsr/LL6.
Then JF keeps coming in telling everyone Ford is like a big happy family! Then continues to layoff people in NA only to ship those jobs south of the border. Then Farley stated a few weeks back the 8k number is a fabrication. Here he lies again. He already knows quite a few people will leave because of the interest rates. For the record he was quoted in one of his staff meetings as stating he doesn't want to pay people to leave.
He has lost the trust of the NA workforce. Nobody believes a thing he has to say. Since you JF are over 55 do you fall under that not trainable category? Because your track record as it stands will not get you into the Automotive Hall of Fame. More like Hall of Shame.
Your pouting about getting a package has nothing to do with caring for anyone...it is greed on your part.
If they gave those of us near, close to retiring a voluntary we could actually retire. Work here for decades, and they know this, but won't give it. Care for each other.