So yesterday was the latest Dougee Town hall. You know that scene in Cape Fear where the Robert DeNiro character gets handcuffed to the sinking boat and at the end all you see is his eyes looking back? That about sums up Dougee. The job jumper is being faced with the reality that his salesmanship was a playbook that only works at companies with a lot of cash (Apple) or companies where the work is done for free because of tremendous stock options down to the working level (Tesla when he was there). Ford is neither. The workers are beaten down whether on the side that keeps the lights on or the other side which burns cash. The true workers are not getting stock options and for the ones that do, Ford stock is a dud. Ford does not have cash to fail like Apple. So he gives the example of Super Duty launch and because of how poor it went we cannot burden ourselves with rules because that would make us too conservative. Also the flat out lie about what EVs are bringing to the company. Then he brings in HR lady to tell us how we need to work more because of quarterly PRs. This dude is boring, uninspiring. I see why he left Ford in the first place because when the company had good leaders they would not tolerate his sniveling attitude. Oh a name drop of the great Alan Clarke his pet and that about sums it up.
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So DF keeps reminding us that we need to be in the office to do our "Great" work but he is holed up in California and comes to Dearborn once in a while (probably first class at a high cost to the company) where is the equality in that ?
Looking forward to Roz Ho townhall next week can't wait to see her latest vacation pictures and listen to her drivel.
dmj+1lZ7BL5b Jealous? Of what? Name one productive thin jf or df have done? CRICKETS.. Inside of five years both of them will be gone.
Jim Farley is out of touch with reality. Explain to me why a single engine has 5-10 different wire harnesses? The harness could easily be generic for all vehicles. I tried to push this for years but LLx management is to incompetent to understand.
How do you know when Doug Field is lying?
When his lips are moving.
All of these comments scream of jealousy of our leadership.
The Model e townhall was an informative, frank, and real. The most important members of Ford leadership spoke, what more do you want?
Ahh . . . OP - You are so brutally nice ! :)
Funny how Doug Fields & Jim Farley talk about the engineers being the issue.
Deming the quality guru. A man who has a lot more clot than either JF or DF will ever have. He once stated 85% of the quality problems come from management.
- But according to JF working from home was the problem. Yeah lets review that. If you look back at the model years or the commodity in question you will find in most cases the vehicle was launched prior to covid or an old commodity like door lathes which smells of TVM cost cutting.
- Complexity. The engineer has ZERO control over complexity. For one who in their right mind wants to live on AVBOM to load parts. I know I don't. But JF who came form Toyota as a Marketing guy should have known that. I guess he missed that memo. He should have pushed for complexity control from day one not 15 years later. Jim Baumbach that political animal will say what ever the wind blows another useless VP. If I had a purge he is gone.
- DF . Now this guy scares me. I red his resume . He never seems to stay any where very long. I think the longest is 5 years? BTW he was just given what $15mn. Did he split the ATOM or something? I must a missed that press conference.
Well it is nice to know our wonderful free press will never question or call out BS when they see it.
- In 2020 JF was quoted in one of his townhalls about how much more efficient we are working from home.
In looking at the new company slogan. I seem to recall something Bob Lutz once said. You need to build products people want before you go off with Star trek. No Bucks No Buck Rogers.
We are in trouble.
"Why are there so many fairly low-mileage electric F-150 Lightnings for sale online?"
https://mobile.twitter.com/SullyCNBC/status/1643299896684863514
The comments are painful to read. If this is the future, then we are doomed.
This Bunny face ruined many places before .it may be time this bunny will hop very soon from ford.
Oh, I missed the meeting. I'm glad he talked about the not-so-good Super Duty launch! Did he talk about the '23 Escape launch?
Those kind of meetings are hard for me these days. The higher the manager, the sillier they sound talking about the Kool-Aid and the more I want to sm--k sense on these people. I went to a Webex meeting with a higher up, where the LLx is gushing about all the "innovative data" we are going to get from BEVs, including audio and video, and I am thinking on Big Brother on steroids. Who would want to buy that kind of vehicle? One of the suck ups quickly pointed out that Ford sales of BEVs went up 41% in Q1'23. I had to really restrained myself to point out we are now in 3rd position in NA, after GM outsold us on EVs.
The more we are circling the drain, the more the amount of drivel that is thrown at us. I am looking for the next job, and I'll see that it is not in automotive. What is getting me is not the ups and down of the industry, but the woke mentality and the level of stupidity regarding the BEV push.
DF is out?