Can you believe that some of the managers believe that attrition has everything to do with people leaving for "personal reasons" and not because of their own failings and what Ford has turned into? I nearly laughed out loud when I heard this, but I managed to keep it in. How delusional can somebody be?
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What is this VP’s personal reason? $$$$ ? Recognition that he was the designated scapegoat? Weather? Family?
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An LL6 had 80% turnover per year for 25 straight years? Bullsh-t.
Ford HR and leadership don’t really care why people leave.
Most people at Ford won’t switch jobs unless something truly horrid is going on. And to be sure there are well known pockets of horror at Ford.
One LL6 turned over 80+% of his staff every year. People complained to HR and the LL5, but somehow they believed that he was just unlucky and all the mentally ill GSRs kept applying to his positions. For 25 years this went on. When the LL6 was unable to fill positions as the word had gotten out the LL5 and LL4 reshuffled people and put people back under the LL6 who had transferred away from the LL6, and refused to let them transfer jobs away from the LL6. Not surprisingly they all quit. This LL6 was so bad that internal organizations like Project Management would not assign Ford employees to manage his projects. They had to bring in a male contractor PM specifically to manage his projects. Yet he was protected and allowed to retire at his full retirement age.
So yes, Everyone knew why people were leaving, but just didn’t care.
In the end why do we except Ford to care about salaried workplace conditions? Do they care about plant workers? Hello, Chicago plant.
People leave for all kinds of reasons, monetary and remote included. Perks.
I don't work for Ford, but I do work for a special company that services all OEMs. One of our customers are kicking azz so well, that we recently had to hire 400% in personnel to handle the workload. The rare few that left, didn't leave based upon the manager, as they were one of the best managers you would ever met in your career. They left due to perks and incentives.
The others hired in due to perks and incentives. Inexperienced, as you get what you pay for, but hopefully in time, a year or two, they'll become worth a darn. :D
It's alway "personal reasons". 🤣
@OP. Most people don't leave companies, they leave managers. So I'd agree that people are leaving Ford for "personal reasons", as long as personal reasons=managers.
If you work a ton of hours to try to get all the work done, they won’t believe they need to hire more. Work has to fall through the cracks first.
We were commenting on people leaving our team and how we needed to backfill more and more positions and how we needed to backfill them ASAP before somebody else leaves from being overworked. He said he can't help it that people are leaving for "personal reasons" and that he's doing all that he can. Spoiler alert, he's not. He doesn't give a damn as long as the work gets done.
Can you give more context on when this was said/what the context was? Not familiar with it...