I understand hating the leadership, but why hate the entire company?
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@iir+1wapCdH8 similar here. great mgmt to start. happy to be at ford. now i look at the ford oval on my steering wheel and just lament the greatness of the past. clowns have taken over. "how might we..." get the clowns out of the company? it's like chrysler in the late 70s. too many clowns. quality problems, bad decisions, bad economy. top heavy with clowns.
Ford has the best selling truck on the planet. Ford isn't going anywhere. But the company may change.
I do believe that Ford will lower our American head count. That had been a strategy for recent years with all of the outsourcing to low cost countries.
I think that, going forward, Ford will lean into the H1B process to hire foreign workers now that the next presidential administration is publicly supporting this path.
This will allow Ford to bring in educated work force at a lower wage compared to Americans and also get the benefit of H1Bs being less likely to resign, or even complain about heavy work loads. Basically, indentured servants.
If Ford should be saved, they should be heavily, and I mean heavily leaning into robotics right now.
This company is going to die. You cannot sustain selling 85k trucks that no one will buy. If someone convinced you to come work for Ford in a HTHD position, then jump ship. Let them hire H1B's as they go down. Save yourself, Ford cannot and will not be a safe bet for your career going forward. Anyone telling you any different ask them to explain themselves in detail as to why they think otherwise. Makes no sense to stay with a legacy automaker given what is coming. Anyone telling you any different is trying to meet a quota or save what little time they themselves have left.
Hatred starts with the leadership. They set the tune and agenda. It is hard to work for a place when the leadership is incompetent. BF maybe a nice guy personally but he is way over his head as a Chairman of the board. JF is a mystery maybe pictures of someone because what kind of mo--n goes out and blames everyone else but himself when things go bad? Talks down to the troops . So why would anyone follow this guy? At least Alan motivated the workers form the line worker to the glass house. He was a true leader not a pretender like Jim. As for Doug fields opportunist is all I can say about him he has not delivered anything since he has been hired. reading his LINK profile and the amount of time spent anywhere is skeptical.
I do not hate the company. I do hate the rubber stamp BOD who, as others have noted, signed off on this mess of a leadership team. JF should be a short timer, he is a train wreck (pun intended). Right now for me, Mark Fields would be a better CEO than JF. I have 30 years in at Ford and love my actual job...not these BS constant fire drills...we as a company have lost our way thanks to BOD complicity.
I spent part of my life at Ford. I don’t hate it. I think many people here don’t hate it. I DO think people here are frustrated with the new leadership style and lack of good vision. We want Ford to succeed. The leadership needs stop BSing and get back to work on good quality vehicles that customers want.
Because they say we are 'family' but treat us like numbers. Oh that and the AICP mess of a few years back. They made it better by upping the percentage but the BOD signed off on the initial amounts.
That is a nightmare. A nightmare.
Well let’s see. When I first started, I was all in on working for Ford. I worked hard my first two years and then requested that I be allowed to interview for a better position. I was allowed to interview and then new department wanted to hire me but my old department did not inform me that I had been offered the job. When I found out about it and asked my director, he told me that I would not be allowed to take the job as “he couldn’t have other departments poaching his people”.
I was so pi---d off that I transferred to a plant which was a move he couldn’t stop. I then spent the next six years working directly for an assembly plant. This included night shifts and working for some truly insane sadists.
I then got an assignment working in a stamping plant for two years before finally being allowed to transfer to a design engineering position.
Then I started working for an id--t who was shaking down suppliers bit he got promoted and I was assigned to clean up his mess but not given the LL6 position. I was then transferred without being asked to a job I truly hated so that that director could put his buddy into my spot.
After six months I transferred to brakes and ended up doing three consecutive launches at their co-mie plant in Canada.
After that, I was finally able to do a job which I really liked testing cars at the proving ground. Just as I was getting settled in, I was reassigned again to do another launch. So after more than 15 years, I quit and got a job at another manufacturer.
But wait, there’s more. After more than a dozen years there, I was laid off.
I was able to again get a job at Ford as by this time I was a technician expert in what I was doing. After three years of working for Ford, I was again laid off.
So to answer your question, yes I hate Ford with every fiber of my being. I tried to do excellent work for them and they sc--wed me every chance they got. I’ve earned my hate for Ford.
Because this is a Ford Layoff site and Ford has targeted pension and Healthcare eligible people for layoff. Of course people don't express their love for Ford on this site.
I’m not sure I agree. You say leadership IS the company but then you say that people are d-mb so they blame the company and it’s misdirected at the company? I’m not sure the people are the d-mb ones JF.
The leadership IS the company. People are just confused of the difference between a soul-less legal entity and the people that run it so they misdirect thier feelings. People are d-mb, emotional, and reactionary.