Thread regarding Ford layoffs

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He was probably a post-SIRP DEI hire!

@6kro+1n0c5GNd hired in Sept? Already promoted to LL6? With that grammar?!?

ROFL Either you are a lying troll. Or you are one of the friends and family. Which means either way you are part of the problem, but the solution

Y'all need to stop makin all this ruckus...

I got hired to Ford last September. And I'm already promoted to a LL6.

Things is great here. Finally a company that UNDERSTAND what it's like for all their employees. They made it more fair to all us groups.

There was a time in this here country when certain groups did the brunt if the work while another groups got all the credit and spoils. Now we are back to that way of life - it's just that you people find y'all on the wrong end of the whip. You ain't had no problems with it before so why start now?

I hope things stay the way they is. It's looking great for so many people nowadays.

Maybe y'all should try taking a knee before NASCAR races to drum up some attention for your cause..

I heard that executive leadership is targeting 50% of all leadership levels be made up of minorities and underrepresented people (gender, religion, orientation, etc.).

LOL @4kby Disabling your laptop while WFH. With you occupied all day rebooting your laptop and squealing to the help desk the rest of your team will get some work done.
We need to have a little fun now and then.

@4kby - u make me laugh. As if going into an office helps the bottom line.

I’d love to help Ford’s bottom line but mgmt ties my hands with politics. They don’t want to hear what I have to say. They don’t want to utilize the skills that I bring to the table. So I do what is asked, continue to suggest process improvements that will reduce costs and improve efficiencies all the while continue to get ignored and am politically outcast because I’m not a yes man.

I think all of that outweighs driving to a building and sitting inside.

I am doing my part to improve the company bottom line by going in to work monday at the office. What are you doing to help Ford?

It’s not remote workers ki-ling rural housing markets, it’s investment companies buying up 40,000+ homes. How this is even allowed blows my mind.

Yah, that's brilliant thinking there. Destroy the economic benefits that come with the remote workers living and spending money in rural locations just so that houses are "more affordable". Go ahead and cut that nose of to spite your face. Teach it a real lesson there, which you can ponder as that rural location goes back to into serious economic decline to the eventual point where it's a ghost town and you can't even give houses away since there are no services or businesses there.

Remote workers ki-led small town housing markets...

We used to be able to afford houses in these small towns. Then all YOU remote workers started moving here and it drove the whole housing market crazy...

RTO is necessary to begin lowering housing costs in smaller and rural cities.

At the end of the day, there is not enough desk space to support full time RTO and Ford has no near-term plan to change that. RTO 2 days a week even though I can easily do my job from home isn't a deal breaker for me.

I retired few years ago.

From my past many-year observations, I am sure that WFH is not for everyone. So the WFH induced issues must be fixed. With that, RTO is unavoidable, unless anti-RTO has a solution to solve the WFH issues.

There are numerous anti-RTO arguments. But there is not a solution to resolve the WFH problems. Think positively and constructively. Don't become a problem for others to solve.

Go ahead and quit. We are all wondering when you are going to retire anyway.

@1hgl+1n0c5GNd Ford salaried won't do what the employees in the article did. Those employees knew they could go elsewhere, make as much and do the same. Ford employees know if they go elsewhere, the 20 hours a week, doing your lawn on company time, and just having to kiss up to two levels above you is over.

Everyone that gets promoted is the above. You got people that get online at 6am so they can be done by 3. Correction, setup up their mouse jiggler at 6am. Starting at 9 attend a few meetings. Kiss up to their boss and boss's boss. Take a long lunch. Log off @ 2:30, and laugh all the way to the bank.

That's why Ford salaried employees are afraid to lose their jobs. They know the gravy train is over and a new company will actually want them to work for a living.

Yeah go ahead and look for another job. LOL. No one is going anywhere. Just because companies post "jobs" doesn't mean they are hiring. The market is flooded with engineers... and no one is hiring. Good luck. Suck it up buttercup and RTO.

OP is stirring the pot by implying it's coming, welcome or not, and the article points out people are NOT taking it. In that story pretty much the vast majority of the company quit rather than put up with it. Good on them!

I am with Jsno2rto guy.

WFCa. If Douglas can do it, so can we!

The entire LL6 staff should be receiving weekly coaching on how to manage remote workers and how to set clear and reasonable KPIs. But since they are all useless at managing, here we are.

The days of walking around and seeing who is at their desk are over. Want us to deliver? Then do your job.

@gjb Don’t think so. There is a very different vibe and undercurrent. The talent will jump ship. The space-wasters will show up to the office along with the people leaders as they can’t jump ship.
The one finger salute has been happening like clockwork at companies who play the RTO game. My brother worked at an insurance company, new CEO rolled in and in an All-Hands meeting said everyone back to the office. The meeting chat was filled with people voicing displeasure. The CEO basically said I don’t care what you think. By the next All-Hands meeting nearly all the developers and architects had quit (including my brother). The company tried to shift the development and architect work to the quality assurance and testing team. They were overwhelmed and didn’t have the skills, so they quit. With SHTF they tried to rehire the developers and architects who quit with substantial pay raises, with no luck. That CEO learned a lesson in how little power and control he has.

Yes we will see. Many have threatened to quit over worst than RTO, and then wu-sied out and stayed. This bluster over saying no to RTO is just that......bluster.

OP - u will c, people will leave. I’m sure that is what they want. But the who leaves could b important and the who will come without that benefit is even more so.

And to all the LL4 & 5's..what would you say, you do here?

OP - I am rather offended here. :( - JSN2RTO Guy

• . . but will not be silenced !

"Just Say NO to RTO ! Just say NO to RTO !!"

It must rot for the irrelevant managers at Ford. But will Ford admit that they should flush all the LL3, LL5, and most of the LL6 as they don’t add any value? No let’s attempt to force people back to the office where the babysitters (managers) can pretend to add value.

Only those needing babysitting, handholding and FaceTime will show up at the office. In other words the Ford dregs will multiply yet again.