Quiet quit and basically look externally for better opportunities.
Most of my team and org has been really quiet and I've noticed that work has slowed down.
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Change your Webex avatar to Marcel Marceau and only use pantomime during remote meetings.
If you are faithful to this company even god cant save you anymore
Ford got what it deserved playing the game.
Massive IT US citizen cuts started in 2000s to ship jobs to India, then going forward instead of hiring US citizens they hired primarily non-US citizens - Indians for all job postings. iTEK and FMCC ended up 80% Indian. As Ford being Ford kept hiring as work was not completing, throw more and more bodies at the work instead of saying hey wouldn’t 2 quality employees be better than 100 subpar employees?
There should be a law in the US that 80% of a companies employees must be US citizens. Whether the company is a meat packing plant or an automobile manufacturer.
Naw the reason tech jobs evaporate is related to the massive H1B fraud and the paper mill certificates and diplomas coming out of India. The companies creating artificial demand for H1B and the practices of Tata of the world dilute the talent pools.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/01/h1b_fraud/?td=rt-3a
The talent in US says stuff it you wa-kers and chose alternate careers.
Besides the cost savings, things like quiet quitting and job hopping for higher salary might be linked to the reason 93k tech jobs are gone, or maybe they were mostly outsourced? Have some integrity and do your job, no matter how horrible Ford is, be better than them.
The smart ones already found other jobs...
The smart ones will start looking for a job now.
40 hours tops per week attend all their pointless meetings on mute, clock out exactly after 8 hours no matter if tasks are incomplete.
Most jobs at Ford allow for lots of time to look for other jobs without interfering.
Low morale and depression will probably interfere more with your job performance that job-seeking.
During all this work-from-home era, what I did between meetings was take on-line classes and homework for another degree. Hopefully that makes me more marketable when Ford decides they don’t want me anymore.
The best strategy is to put on your big boy pants and do the job you're being paid to do. No matter what you think of your employer. Find a new job on your own time. Then quit like a a full-grown adult.
Don't lower yourself to the same low-character behavior your employer is engaged in. You'll sleep better.
I think the best strategy is to “quit quietly”. That is, still do the job, exactly what was requested, but actively look for another job. Leave Michigan if you’re here, and leave the automotive industry.
There is no reward for sacrifice. Loyalty to the company or even a good supervisor, is not returned.