I mean, any firings on the top? Change in direction? Some serious soul-searching? Or we will just continue doing bad, pretending business as usual, until everything falls apart?
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Wow, just wow
Layoffs are coming.
The problems started before covid and as anyone who works at Ford can see the cause of the problems start with leadership failures at Ford.
Might as well get this thread deleted too.
WFH was equally done at Ford and GM during covid. The covid era is when the vehicles built/sold today were engineered, developed, and tested.
Again I ask, why Ford vehicles sold today are unreliable junk, while GM's vehicles aren't any near that level of poor quality and design?
if WFH is the problem, why did Ford hire people who have never been to Michigan and don't plan on moving here? My department hired, during Covid, people all over the US and since they are more than 50 miles away, they don't have to come in but we do. How does that make sense if WHF is the issue?
Things were much better at Ford when the CEO had a mullet. JF should grow his hair into a mullet and then it will be sales in front and service in the back.
@1hai+1tGoOILN - I don’t agree with everything you wrote, but your comments are far. I see the voting is split.
Clearly WFH is not the main issue, but it is part of the big puzzle.
will they ever trace it to the boondoggles of Hackett and his cardboard cutout design thinking applying furniture technology to vehicles? and his "fitness" effort (= broom out experienced people). not to mention post-Hackett broomouts of soon-to-hit-pension milestone staff? signs point to no. the family will get irate tho, after a while. they got irate at iacocca and peterson and fields, and those were pretty good CEOs leading the company up not down.
"Everyone should be in the office working, collaborating, and solving problems. Working "from home" clearly is not working for Ford quality. "
I think we need to quit blaming WFH for quality issues. If that was all it took, clearly that would have been an easy fix. Ignoring the core issues that make quality an issue is just lip service. Talent drain and cutting corners, ect. The rubber meets the road at the supply chain and the build quality of what Ford puts out. WFH as a concept is a few spaces removed from what the real problems are. Now if you want to talk about how Ford is trying to be a software company? The let's talk. But if you like to name call WFH then it's time for you to sit down and let the adults talk.
Consequences:
- Everyone should be in the office working, collaborating, and solving problems. Working "from home" clearly is not working for Ford quality.
- Stop the WebEx meetings nonsense. It should be limited to as needed bases.
- Stop engineering at LCS, and stop splitting teams all over the world.
- Value your experienced engineers, especially those that have a pension. If you think there are too expensive, then freeze the pension. Engineers who are passionate about work will stick around because they are proud of what they do and genuinely want to improve the company.
- Don't hire snowflakes. :)
Good Luck.
Obviously more experienced (i.e. expensive) engineers need to be laid off. They need to move those engineering jobs to LLC to reap the savings. There’s no reason that those engineers can’t do just as good of a job as the old engineers. Ford really needs to get moving on this! They have been moving too slow.
Ford loses money = salary terminations = higher executive bonuses
For starters, who knew how bad this was going to be but wasn’t transparent ?
This week in the automotive news streams it was reported that Ford is moving away from large BEV's to smaller BEV products. This is the kind of strategy which will launch BEV'Ss into the mainstream and getting into this market at the bottom level is the right move.
Volume for BEV's increases and so will revenue.
JF will star in a commercial. Playing the part of a silly heart CEO, Charlie, who is only focused on racing. He thinks that if he can make ALL cars and trucks faster, people will buy them and all problems will be solved. He hears that the cheetah is a fast animal. He proceeds to paint all new Fords to look like a cheetah, hoping that will make the vehicles fast and customers will want to buy them. A group of FCGs realize his foolishness and set him straight, as follows:
Sorry Charlie! Cheetah spots don't make cars fast. Customers want cars that last.
Why would anybody leave a job to work at Ford? They would have to be incompetent, desperate, or stuck in Michigan for some reason and jobless.
Ford might be able to get some good people right out of school who don’t plan to stay around too long anyway. Is that going to improve quality… transients? “Thanks for the tick mark on my resume, now that I’ve learned something, I'm going to get a real job where there’s palm trees.”
Ford won’t be able to attract “top talent” without top pay. Too risky for anyone with a family. The best it can do is try to win back jobless people stuck in Michigan.
Jimbo will get a huge bump in yearly compensation while the US-based GSR ranks get olbiterated. Need to balance those books somehow...
@kkt+1tGoOILN you are clueless! The 2024 Lincoln Nautilus is a complete $h!t show!
There will be a special dividend, benefiting mostly the Ford family special shares. They need the money to fund their lifestyles. You little people, get back to work !
JF will blame the bracket department for creating so many expensive quality issues and warranty claims. Of course he will let the blame roll downhill. Not sure when the board will wake up and realize he's just slightly more effective than the US Secret Service director, but that's about the level of competence we have running the company.
@kkt+1tGoOILN - The batch 3+ year until now have been sitting in lots. That can't be good for quality.
"Folks, the quality issue is from 3+ years"
LOL
Explorer '25?
F-150 '24?
The only company that pats itself in the back for holding vehicles 6 weeks to fix quality issues.
Folks, the quality issue is from 3+ years. Anything newer is great and good. We have to wait until this batch of vehicles are behind us. Ford+ plan is working.
Nothing. Just bigger bonuses for LL5 and above.
Farley will take Sydney Sweeney for a lap around the track if you know what I mean, wink wink.
I think you already know the answer.