My POS manager is breathing down my neck everyday yet there are people here sitting on their butts for 20 years and no one asks
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Clowns getting paid and complaining . Leave so we can continue the good work.
@OP and @jic+1qB0TvHH
Let me tell you how things work at Ford. You have a bunch of FnF doing nothing at all, with little tasks inflated to look like projects. Still, the headcount used by the upper managers to assign team workloads includes those FnF, so each GSR ends with higher workloads, the higher the number of FnF in the team. Then we have those that work very efficiently and finish their projects before deadlines. Those are the real workhorses. Managers assign more workload to those, coworkers will ask them for help, FnF will steal their work, and the managers will ask for unpaid OT to those GSRs to meet the team deadlines.
Therefore, if you are NOT an FnF member (a very exclusive club at Ford), you should not work very fast, nor very slow. Work hard and you'll end overloaded and burned, like so many before. Work very slow and you'll end in PIP, with a foot already in the unemployment line.
Take a look at your team output, find the average, and stick to it. I was a fast worker, and my reward was more work, including "helping" the FnFs, which translates to doing the whole thing for them. Now I work fast for 3-4 hours a day, unless I have more than 4-5 meetings a day, and coast for the rest of the day. The sad part is that I still produce more than most of my teammates. The bonus? Since I am always "busy", is hard for me to help the FnFs.
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Most people there are pretending they are doing work. They are actually accomplished nothing. All of the work are being done by outside vendors. 😂
I do sometimes wonder how other people are making do. I honestly look at some of the work my co-workers do, I think I'm constantly behind and under scrutiny. Then I look at some of the commits, updates, and general activity that come from some people on my team and I genuinely don't feel as bad. There are a shocking amount of people that don;t produce much. I don't know how they are insulated. Maybe they are somehow meeting the objectives and producing something that someone (somewhere) is happy with. I just don't know. Keep consistent and you'll be fine.
Work life at Ford is highly dependent on your management chain. More so than other companies I've worked at. Managers have too much to be mediocre here.
You have to put in 6-12 months of good, honest work to earn the managers trust and respect. Then you have more freedom