Thread regarding Ford layoffs

Seriously Ford HR’s ghost writers to this site need to give up. You’re exposed and look completely obvious/pathetic on every post.

Fix your broken culture, get your layoffs done that you won’t avoid, and fire the CEO before you come back to this board.

Time to expose inferior leadership.
Frank Louis Victor - came from Renault, did nothing with Mobilize and continues to do nothing other than bleed and drain BILLIONS at Ford.
Christian Moran - Canopy, another fake, no accomplishments at Ford and ridiculed recently at CES
more to come.
ACCOUNTABILITY

Ford's dysfunctionality:

• CEO and BoD guide the company through wrong paths (AV, BEVs, TVM, outsourcing, Boston Consulting, etc.), ignoring technical advice. No accountability.
• Upper managers let go competent employees, and hire more deadwood. Bigger fiefdoms and siloes created. No accountability.
• Managers (LL5/LL6) provide/choose their own "solutions", ignoring the input of the technical engineers. No accountability.
• Technical engineers, whose advice has been sidelined by all managers, whose unpaid OT has been employed in solving all the issues caused by those solutions, are hold accountable for the BF, JF, and all the LLx bad decisions.

How we fix the company? Simple. Get rid of all those clowns in the top. Reduce siloes and fiefdoms by reducing management levels. Make everybody accountable, and fire the level above where the mistake was (engineer made a mistake, fire the LL6. LL6 or LL5 ignored technical advice, fire the LL4). That'd take care of the deadwood. Pay a better salary/bonus to the hardworking people. Bring back the pension or another idea to keep talent in the company. Instead of opening Centers of Excellence in another countries, build them and staff them in other states. Bring competent people and they'll find a way to develop better processes, and with that we can get better quality.

JF is not wrong, he is correct, but what he is totally wrong about is he and his cronies blame the working people for the inefficiencies. Anyone who works at Ford for more than a year knows that the top-heavy leadership levels are the drivers of inefficiency. There are over 90 Presidents and Vice Presidents globally at Ford and they fail, time and time again to make good decisions in a timely manner. Ford’s leadership is so paranoid about anyone making decisions that you have to be a director + to make any decisions, spend any money or make any changes. That is the reason Ford is slow and inefficient. JF and his team blame everyone else for their late bad decisions: Argo, semiconductor sourcing, late to the EV market, etc. But it is us the GSRs who are to blame and need to be terminated. JF and his cronies can kiss my GSR@$$.

JF is not wrong, whether you like it or not. Someone at the highest levels of the company had to say it.

If you work at Ford you could how can you not notice the terrible inefficiency at the working levels? I take his statements as we need to accelerate the company transformation and Ford+ even quicker than we all would've thought.

What an id--tic statement. the problem with change within Ford has been with middle and upper management who have their heads in the clouds thinking that we have the best systems and processes. That everything we have is sacred IP and a competitive advantage, so that Ford is stuck with outdate systems that do not share information well and are difficult to manage. Plus the fact that management routinely ignores lessons learned.

LOL the dysfunction never left; it grew under Farley