Amazon in the last quarter of 2024, set a goal to increase the ratio of individual contributors to managers by 15% across the organization, looking to reinforce the culture of ownership. FMC is set to avoid accountability, thus increasing the ratio of managers vs contributors. The more layoffs we have at Ford, the more management heavy we are, and the ship is toppling sideways with that extra weight. It is past time to flatten our organization.
Stop laying off contributors and stop bringing more clueless managers/professional job hoppers from industries no related to vehicle manufacturing. Ford is already a big mess because of this, and there is such a huge load of pending work, that we cannot meet deadlines with quality results.
Managers just keep increasing our workloads with stoopid sh!t, half of it are just projects that are scrapped later on because the C-suite changed their minds (again). So the employees are burned out, no enthusiasm in doing their tasks because we know it will get dumped aside later on, and most people are just checked out, because nothing makes sense anymore.
The most important task these days is complying with the badge count (rto) and managers are just reminding us about meeting the numbers before the end of quarter. Hardly any interest in our projects or any other deliverable. I've never seen before this level of CYA and office politics at Ford. SMH.