Thread regarding Ford layoffs

@1slf concur on fordpass. Stability, resiliency, security and speed are not Fordpass strong suits. And unfortunately being a “Foundational Consumer Platform” all subsequent deliverables have inherited and expanded the flaws (i.e. Ford Pro)

But hey as long as we are being agile and reporting a high velocity of deliverables upwards who gives a flying fig if the latency issues drive the customers mad, or if we routinely drop cellular connections, or we deliver patch after patch after patch just hoping something will actually work.

Oh snap I forgot reorging the microservices into domains of microservices magically addressed all the issues LMAO. Shame on me for snoozing thru that leadership presentation. Let’s keep buffing that t-rd. At least one of the blowhard frauds responsible for a decades worth of this mess FordPass->FordPro left Ford a few months ago.

@OP your premise is flawed. Not even the top leaders are on board with the plan.

Multiple leaders have created the equivalent of huge parking lots full of highly compensated salaried employees. There are no measurable or quantifiable deliverables for these teams. There is no inter-departmental communication or checks and balances. The glossy upward presentations are pure fiction. Jeez when the leaders are all telling tall tales to each other instead of focusing on our products and consumers how do we even have a chance at success? AM was the last CEO who stood before us and told us the truth and gave us a concrete plan.

This is pure comedy. As someone who had the opportunity to look into the code and “logs” of our apps and analytics. Zero shot we can be a “data company” we can’t get the data off the vehicle lol. We have possibly the worse vehicle app in fordpass. From functionality, features, and security it’s a dumpster fire.

Which are you? the cow? the chicken or the pig? according to dougie fresh, you should be the bacon.. can you sacrifice yourself for some yummy bacon for my breakfast tomorrow.

OP is totally unequivocally correct and on point. The Ford+ Plan must be adhered to by all employees from the bottom up. It is the only way the company will be sustainable for the future. If you do not believe in the Model e mobility products and services that Doug Field and other leadership has put forth to bring the company into long-term profitability, you should be employed somewhere else.

5 hours ago by Anonymous | 18 reactions (+0/-18)
Post ID: @ohb+1pkduUPR

@ohb+1pkduUPR What a crock. Like there's any incentive to. Even if there was, it's ignoring the LL4-0 problem completely. People have been screaming about problems for years, but that chain doesn't work, and if you try enough, you get the pain. It's an elite class that doesn't want to hear from or about you, and literally shoos you away.

OP: Ya know.
Leadership is toxic and they only care about they own pay check and layoff people every quarter. leadership is incompetent, have no leadership skills and copy tesla. when sh-t hits the fan, leadership blame.

The company consists of the people who work in it to deliver products and provide services.
The people in the company under leaderships with visions is what deliver products and services that consumers buy, resulting in profits.
Employees are employed with oodles of benefit, some former employees are unemployed with oodles of benefits. what's your point?

Shareholders make the jobs possible by investing where the alternative is to not invest and let the company falter, jobs be lost, and more. HaHaHa... Henry Ford is rolling in his grave reading this one.

If you're not onboard with the go forward plan and not wholly invested in being an asset, then leave. If you can't do better, then there's nothing for you to complain about. Have you been reading this forum??? half of the people on here are quiet quitting to collect a welfare check, the other half don't care. those who have any skills already left.
I thought we were employees with oodles of benefits, now we are "an asset", like computers, chairs, gears and sprockets that makes the machine run, or like cows chickens and pigs and livestocks that provide milk and eggs and bacon?

Toxicity gets everyone nowhere! Got feedback? Provide it. Don't agree with something? Say it! what do you think this forum is for? it is more effective than the VOICE that no none cares about.

You think people aren't listening? You're definitely wrong! go ahead and believe what you will. right or wrong is just an opinion... and like arm pits and a--holes, everyone have them and everyone thinks someone else's stinks

Instead of ridicule, why not he a help. it got your attention didn't it??

Original poster, couldn’t disagree with you more. I’ve been with the company for over 30 years it’s done nothing but gone downhill for the past 20, since they started promoting friends and family heavily and promoting people based on potential rather than performance. (Ford 20000). So now the company is full of these so called leaders. It’s not that they are d-mb or not trying, but they are in these positions that are so far over their head that they can’t function or turn the ship around. Most of it is the fault of lot of the executives that are now gone and the ones still there and enjoying their big fat money. They were and still are putting friends and family ahead of what’s best front the company and there is no accountability for any of them. So somebody at the top sees this and don’t want to correct it but thinks they can fix it by bring people from outside. it’s deeper than that. This certainly isn’t the only problem, but in my opinion, a major one. people running a company that can’t run it and the over paid non-automotive people from the outside are no different.

The American consumer are the ones who don’t want to spend the money on the cr-p quality, high expense, lack of infrastructure EV vision. Don’t blame the employees who would told leadership that was the case many moons ago.

The low level employees would provide suggestions on how to fix quality and reduce waste many times over if leadership got out of their own way, put their egos aside and listened.

Don’t blame us for wanting to do the right thing and getting sh-t on while telling the emperor isn’t wearing clothes. You can only get burned so many times before giving up and saying yes sir that’s a fantastic idea because that is exactly the type of people you reward.

You grew up in the same broken environment. Yet your ego makes you appear clueless. Get humble and build a great company.

I‘m doing what the execs are doing “whatever is best for me” and su-king out as much money as I can before the big blue beached whale dies

First responsibility is to the customers.

Second responsibility should be to the employees.

Third responsibility is to the communities.

The final responsibility is to our stockholders.

Ford has lost any and all focus on the first three. As a result, the fourth will suffer.

@ohb -Oh Dougie is reality setting in? Your house of cards tumbling down? Still recruiting more koolaid drinkers?

@ohb+1pkduUPR

Ok, Doug...

OP is totally unequivocally correct and on point. The Ford+ Plan must be adhered to by all employees from the bottom up. It is the only way the company will be sustainable for the future. If you do not believe in the Model e mobility products and services that Doug Field and other leadership has put forth to bring the company into long-term profitability, you should be employed somewhere else.

@rob+1pkduUPR If I owned Ford I’d chop 70% of the salaried leaders.
I’d start by importing a snapshot of Ford salaried org @ each quarter for the past 30 years into analytics software. Within a few hours I would see the patterns and hidden relationships, and I would cut one incompetent leader and ALL their cronies (down to the GSR5 level), followed by another and another until what was left were the people who ethical, independent and talented.

The “whiners are not winners”. Is claptrap for we accept applause only.

it's amazing that such naive people like you still exist on this planet.
Hey ! I have a bridge for sale in Brooklyn really cheap, interested ?

Ford's only barrier to success is the employees.

Whiners are not winners!

If I owned Ford or had control I'd fire every single associate that was an anchor! I would outsource their jobs to wherever and stop worrying about the ungrateful turds anchoring the company.

What benefits this is piece of sh1t company provides? Being underpaid and no stock options?

Look at the stock price in last 5 to 10 years. This place is garbage

Only the good employees will leave the company because they can get a better job somewhere else. The bad employees will stay because they know they cannot get a job somewhere else. There is no way in he-l Ford can get out of this.

Ok, Jim...

LMAO says the man who hasn’t’ been in a meeting with Two Jims