Thread regarding Ford layoffs

Fire Farley!

Would that be the weekly purveyor of doom Kumar? Crafty fellow that manages to hire/promote scapegoat to avoid the axe. His fellow presidents had him set up for the fall more than one and he shifted the blame. LOL

OMG! Guys, you might as well shut it all down. If you can't get the ICE Mustang V8 right, then there is no hope of ever getting EVs right. This is the nail in the coffin. The company is done.

Congratulations, Bill. You ki-led your great grandfather's 120 year old company.

Now that Benny has retired, whobis the highest ranking Black person at Ford? Or highest ranking non-white person?

@smh+1mvQeEOh Sadly, Bennie mentored and created a lot of mini-Bennies before suddenly retiring, coincidentally just before the lawsuit against him was settled! The mini-Bennies are still here tanking the company!

Knowledge, skills and experience are important for leaders at all levels. We keep putting people into leadership positions for reasons other than their knowledge, skills and experience and then wonder why the company is failing??? Need to get out head out of the sand before we go bankrupt! It might be too late...

Diversity is the correct first step.

But right after we reach 50% minority employees and management, the next thing we need to do is automate.

Machines won't make the mistakes that these uneducated blue collar people make. Those people can't be trained. They need to be eliminated.

And once we automate as much as possible, we need to lower the wages for the uneducated workforce that is left. If they want to make more money then they need to have specialized training. And how else can we compete with Mexico and China and Japan. Those countries pay their workforce peanuts - why haven't we figured out how to do that yet?!

The folks supporting former VP Bennie Fowler are to blame. There was too much fear and they emphasized the reporting over the great upfront design work because it was simpler. Bennie didn't quite get it, I remember he was surprised when the data reporting function in marketing moved from an LL4 director level position to an LL6 position.

The people around Bennie defended their direction saying it was critical that Bennie got accurate reporting data requiring a large team. They also emphasized understanding what the customer was complaining about after failures over trying to guide any upfront quality work.

Thats what happens when you layoff qualified experience people and being in new ones…it’s called learning curve aka quality issues..enjoy the fruits of your decisions losers!

Joe got the axe for the problematic Explorer launch. After he was shown the door we have since failed at Bronco, Escape, Super Duty, and now Mustang.

Are Dougie and Jimmy still blaming Joe for these most recent launch issues? It seems to be so since I am not seeing where anyone is owning up to these issues. Maybe they need reminded that Joe left over 3 years ago.

This is so disappointing and so preventable. One knows if big glaring items are problems less apparent problems also exist. When will the problem (management tree and their cadre of bobbleheads) be addressed?

They hire Halliburton whose major career experience is JD Power, not actual functional quality , manufacturing or engineering. His only engineering experience was early in his career, other than that he was pushing JDP services. Most if not 100% of his group tracks quality in some form or other.No one actually picks up a failed part and actually solves anything.

We act like slowing down a line or stopping it is some major revelation, and Farley praises it like it some novel idea. You should never ship with significant quality issues, it's common sense and putting customers first. Quality is never led by inspection, you build quality into the product with upfront discipline in all phases of design, development and manufacture. Find and fix is not sustainable.

Nice that we find out about news like this in the media or at this forum. What happened to telling our employees aka "family" first? What is wrong with the management in this company?