Thread regarding Ford layoffs

They can track every keystroke and surely were doing so before the covid fraud. What I wonder is do they spy through the mic and camera.

I was working for another company during Covid and was confronted about my WFH online work time being "inconsistent" ... I had pretty much already given them the eff u but the eff u got louder after gossipy dei hr lady told me about my inconsistency.

@azql+1qiRI2hF I don't know if the company is tracking or not the activity on the PCs, but just because you have been milking the company without delivering work, that not necessarily means your lack of activity is not tracked. It just means that nobody have acted on the info.

Let's face it, just checking some emails and not delivering anything else, any manager can see you are not working, no need for tracking software in your PC. That means your managers are looking the other way while you steal from the company, which make them very lousy managers or it seems you are in the elite FnF club at Ford.

Nobody is tracking inactivity or managing it. For the last 3 years, I have done little to no “work” from my work laptop, but do check email a few times a day when possible. I know many others in my department are doing the same. We are enjoying our milk and use iPads for the non work related internet.

It’s not how many hours you put in, it’s what you put into the hours. Good management doesn’t care how you get the job done, just that it gets done.

Using PC Tracking data means management don't know what they are doing.

A good Supervisor knows who does the work.

Employee A: Gets more work done in 2 hours than most do in 8. They are the go/to expert for others in the group. Spends free time on youtube.
Employee B: Struggles to get anything done. But watches youtube during working hours on their personal tablet.

PC tracking software will target Employee A to be fired.

IT employee here.

There are multiple apps running on your Ford PC to track your activities. There are 3 you can probably see running in the task manager, but multiple others (about 6-7) running in a totally transparent manner to the user.

Everything you are doing is monitored in some manner. Assume no privacy and if you're behaving in a manner that causes you to wonder about this, you can safely guess that it's piqued someone else's interest also. That doesn't mean anything will occur, but patterns are noted and tracked.

@OP they have been tracking for many years. “Leadership” discretion on what to do with the info. For example IT repeatedly reported the below suspicious activities to “Leadership” and they turned a blind eye for many years.

Multiple CDSIDs daily using one CDSIDs laptop to sign on. The activity nearly always between the hours of 5 pm and 4 am. This was reported for years, then after one “Leadership” shuffle an LL5 asked how this could be. The investigation uncovered that a non-Ford employee was being paid by a group of Ford IT employees to do their work. None were capable of doing the work they were hired to do. Further investigation uncovered an even larger scam.

A CDSID regularly signing on from different continents on the same day. Again ignored for years until there was a mistake made by that CDSID when signed on from India and corporate data was deleted. The owner of the CDSID residing in Michigan fessed up that he had given his CDSID and password to a friend in India who was helping him.

Individuals spending less than an hour logged on in a month. Lengthy list. This was a part of reducing costs. Why does a person need a laptop for 12 hours of use a year? Could they use a tablet/phone instead? Ironically many of these people were in IT.

No matter how they are doing it, you are being tracked. They may be using old decrepit software, or the newest cutting edge market ready solution. Anything you do on a Ford system can ad will be used against you at your next review or any other time its deemed necessary. So much data is gathered on you during the day it's just a question of the IT operations people and if they have the wherewithal to form it into an understandable format for management. That will be the only thing saving anyone from being called out. The data is there, they just have to report it correctly. I would be just mildly worried. I say this because quality and waste has been an issue for years and they have had plenty of time to fix it. Look at what they do...not at what they say...

Just open a word doc, put your cat on the keyboard and let the cat do the work. Data will show you're "very productive" and you'll get a raise.

Thank your cat and treat it to a nice meal!

Of course HR is doing this, such data will be needed to identify the coming new year layoffs (rumored to be announced in late January).

Have you considered purchasing a Jiggler (for your mouse). Of course, if you are quiet quitting, you can just watch TV and jiggle it yourself. 👍

I have news for you. They already have all this. The basement of the Glass House is an advanced computer forensics lab. You've all been being tracked since before the Corona fraud.

If you have been quiet quitting you are already marked for termination.

If putting the metrics in a PR is on the table they will have higher quit rates and lower job acceptance rates.. What message does that send employees? No one wants to work under such conditions. We can all find a better work environment.

The fools do that all the time
I once had 2 laptops a windows and mac. The mac was my official but the fools kept measuring the windows which was used primarily for connecting to test equipments.

I heard these metrics will be incorporated into employees PR and compensation package. Its been in trial phase for a while now.

More likely though the analytics will be used by LL5+ for identification of 25% headcount reductions for January.

Just read an article on the net yesterday on work productivity. On how management thought forcing people back to onsite work would improve productivity. It said there is no difference.

The article said smaller companies are still allowing the workers to work from home more, while the large companies over 25,000 people were forcing people back to more onsite.

It should be the same as for on site work. It's foolish to think people don't goof off on site as well as at home.