Thursday and Friday were too quiet and lots of meetings normally not done on Friday. team meetings normally held earl on Mondays changed to last hour of the day for Monday 3-17-25. Could it be that firings will take place Monday morning and that way they can let teammates no those who are no longer with the company in the afternoon, close to end of shift? This would be for Customer service, vehicle liquidations, EOT, account services and wholesale dept.
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Ford is creating a ghost town in Dearborn. But hey they have the 2 billion dollar train station that was supposed to house all the brilliant minds from the left coast.
Just move the HQ to Mexico engineering center already.
Sorry guys and gals but there is little hope for Fords future as an American company.
"engineers in Mexico, Brazil, India and China are now designing our vehicles"
This has been going on since 2020. and in some cases before that. In studio the trend was to have Mexico support programs that were being developed in the studio.
Many of the PED's weren't even degreed engineers. They were more than prod to call themselves 'Studio Engineers'.
Two in particular had degrees in a Golf management program. You cannot make this stuff up.
"engineers in Mexico, Brazil, India and China are now designing our vehicles"
i am not sure you understand what an engineer is
do you mean they are mass producing rickshaws now
i can't wait to see what their new companies are called with all those super smart folks
Bonus day is always a happy day. Quiet and happy.
@ff+1jpddza5h you're d-mb.
Everyone knows that engineers in Mexico, Brazil, India and China are now designing our vehicles. The goal is zero salaried jobs I'm the US. And LCCs providing what the plants and UAW need.
The get closer to that goal each month.
@ ff+1jpddza5h
Speak in a way others can understand you. This is pure gibberish. Ominous bs to let ppl interpret a bunch of confusion. Only causes people to take everything else more seriously because it’s understandable
If all the salaried layoffs posted on this website came true, Ford would have a manufacturing plants and UAW members with nothing to build!
Rule of three, at some point you must acknowledge a pattern. I thought we have the Oracle HRM with a vast suite of knowledge regrading failure mode avoidance? What happened to practice what we preach? Or are we frauds like how we bought the respect for our model-e division as some pony trick. Authenticity is missing.
"There was more than one occasion where we worked until dawn to ensure our customers received vehicles that were ready for prime-time."
This only really happens when someone sc--ws up. Happens mkre than a blue moon then it's willful ignorance.
Model e is just an old managers with money dumping money into something to buy respect instead of earning it. None of you have that dog in you and it’s okay because Detroit is the same. The startup community is not merit based here either. None of them carry grit they just play the social game and only pick photo ops not real merit that could wash the lineup. You guys slide in like credit instead of debt here.
Yeah they need to dump more money pretending to be startup only by name. Slowest people to ever lead a division. Everyone you associate with there is slow. It’s a sad feeling. You just look around and you know that you don’t fit in. If they get talent they only get it on technicality and then later fumble it because the slow ones are poking holes thinking it won’t do damage. Injecting money to model e is survivorship bias. That’s totally the opposite of a startup. You are supposed to have smart creative people without rules not old managers who waited in line for their time in the sun
I highly doubt there are any plans for reductions in Model e. That would be a terrible business move.
Are you gonna finish your little ramble @previous commenter
What is your point
I was hired in the early 1990's. We had all the talent, due to learning lessons the hard way. We put processes in place to head off recalls and high warranty. Yes, it was sometimes, just in the nick of time by corralling production-built vehicles in the convey lot, before they got to customers. There was more than one occasion where we worked until dawn to ensure our customers received vehicles that were ready for prime-time.
I have to agree with a poster. Make things more simple. And reliable. Like my 1997 F250, 320K on it and still runs great.
Recall that our old school engineers could not do the BEV work... Its too bad we retired all the engine and transmission engineers that gave a $hit.
The way to correct the ship is to simplify the product and get rid of complexity. The customer does not care about most of the marketing wizardry that drives all this insanity.
I am convinced that Hackett took a few too many hits while playing for Bo.
Model e needs to be cut deep to save Ford
Oh well...at least Monday 3/17 is St. Patrick's Day, so there will be plenty of opportunities then to drown one's sorrows in mass quantities of Guinness and Jameson.
It's coming....
Layoff will be late April early May. Get ready for anything.
Probably quiet on Friday because it was 70 degrees out.
Building a war chest doesn’t mean we are righteous
My guess it's the EV folks are ones with most risk. Always trust your instincts
It is a thought. And they are slick with that kind of thing.