Looks like we are back into recession. There are so many companies laying off employees.
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"Have 5 patents and are the tech lead - nope can’t promote you. Are the girlfriend of the LL5’s son and went to cosmetology school - promoted"
Pathetic but sadly true
Technically we're not in a recession but the cost of everything especially housing is ridiculous.
Have no fear though Bidenomics and Build Back Better will solve all of this soon. Its true because the MSM says that things are going great for us all right now.
What's wrong with you why don't you just understand.
3xoi as a woman engineer who was promoted based on technical merit prior to the mass skirt promotions in the 1990s and 2000s: I can tell you my pay was on par with my male counterparts BEFORE the mass skirt promotion. Post the mass skirt promotion my pay began to diverge from my male counterparts. Year after year I lost ground. For two reasons
- if I worked for a women I invariably made more money than she did, and she did not like that
- if I worked for a man they had a built in bias assuming I had been promoted only due to my gender. It usually took a year before they understood this was not true.
Pay should be on merit not gender. And frankly the mass skirt promotion primarily promoted the unqualified. The qualified and competent were not promoted. I remember when the promotions were announced and being shocked at how only the air-heads and FnF were promoted. Have 5 patents and are the tech lead - nope can’t promote you. Are the girlfriend of the LL5’s son and went to cosmetology school - promoted.
We really need to talk about the gender pay gap....
Ford is no different than the other man-lead corporations in this country.
Women do not earn equal pay for equal work here at Ford.
We can only repair this broken system by working together!
“…an unemployment rate of 3.5%, inflation rate of 3.2% in October and a strong GDP report for Q3…”
You know, they changed how these numbers are calculated since the “stagflation” days of the 70s and early 80s. If you use the methodology they used back then, our economy today is as bad as that or worse.
The low cost countries are not following the same rules. They manipulate their currencies to undercut the U.S. dollar,
they don’t care about the wellbeing of their workers, they don’t permit labor unions, and they laugh at our concern about the environment.
Should WE be making less or should people in LCCs be making more?
Experts in the media have shown we are not in a recession like just a few years ago. Things are looking up and you can see it, especially at Ford. We ar3 stabilizing. Jobs are growing unlike what comments here are portraying.
@2jci+1pClCPWb No it’s not. My child and spouse have been spouting this since graduating college five years ago (which I paid for). So I had them bring over the last 6 months of their spending. The hard needs Rent, Insurance, Water, Sewer, Electricity&Gas was 2100 mo. Their monthly spending was 9000. Each discretionary item we went thru they didn’t want to give up/ reduce Eating out, Entertainment, Clothing, Shoes, jewelry, Cable etc. Yet they keep crying about how they can’t start a family until they own a house.
I gave them a plan to reduce their spending to 4000 a month, saving 5000 a month in CDs/Treasuries for 5 years. Then they would have 350K in 5 years. But I know they will continue to waste all their money and claim it’s all the boomers fault that housing is so expensive.
It’s not like the boomers didn’t have to scrimp and save to buy a 900 sq ft starter house. Expectations are too high nowadays.
Home ownership IS out of reach for most hard working Americans.
Only student loan forgiveness and rejuvenating our welfare systems can save us now.
High housing prices means the housing market has recovered. Du----s.
Too bad the housing market will never recover. Home ownership is now out of reach for most Americans.
OP do you know what a recession is?
Oh Dear...we're all trapped...GTF outta here. Go cry somewhere else or skill up and quit whining. Hopefully you're not a head of household sitting around dooming yourself and those who depend on you for direction. Are there people at OEM's that take more than they are worth? YES. Will they trade your livelihood for metrics on a spreadsheet? Absolutely. Will you still whine about it? Seems so. Wah.
Many companies are hiring. If someone who's been laid off refuses to accept a new job they seem to be "below them", I feel no sympathy for them.
I love this site! The replies are awsome!!!
A recession is two consecutive quarters of GDP decline. OP is a du----s.
Really, with an unemployment rate of 3.5%, inflation rate of 3.2% in October and a strong GDP report for Q3. Have you ever lived through a real recession?