Thread regarding Ford layoffs

Outsource the group to IBM. They can’t do anything without a cadre of IBM consultants anyway, so just eliminate the middle man (IT Operations). That would be much cheaper and a true Smart ReDesign.

Totally agree. The knob polishers and mouth breathers are rewarded. My LL6 used his keyboard this week. He spent an entire day updated all the technical and strategy papers on our Share Point changing the authorship from the “retired” LL6 to his name. Puke.

SSDD here was our ITO department lay-off strategy. List the LL6 in order of salary. Select the top 5 salaried LL6 whose lips are not firmly attached to the LL3 behind. Then send in the clowns LL4 and LL5 to hold multiple meetings to try convince us GSRs that it was a thoughtful exercise, and that they value those left behind. Not buying it.

The LL6 left behind are jokes. One sleeps most of the day, one sits all day reading magazines and books, one spends his day going from cube to cube gossiping and shifting blame, one runs a side business from his cube, three socialize with each other most of the day and the rest of the day walk laps as a group around the building.

The day after the lay-off my LL6 was blaming released LL6s for his mistakes and missed project deadlines. Nice. Then he told the LL5 that we should bring the released LL6s back as contractors because he did not have anyone who could do the work.

I dialed my work effort back. Why bother? The people who worked hard were let go. The lazy dolts were kept.

The primary benefactor of the broken system is the leadership team, why would they fix the very thing they spent their whole working life learning how to manipulate for their own benefit?

The old Ford leadership culture that Mulally had tamped down, resurrected itself as soon as Mulally departed. No CEO has had the stones to permanently take care of the problem.

Bill better wake up soon, daylight is burning, not many more chances to get it right.

Hackett’s Smart ReDesign was an epic failure. He let the pitchfork wielding sxxt-stirrers “ReDesign” their own spheres of control. Who could of foreseen how that would turn out? Every breathing soul in the Detroit Metro area. That’s who.

The company never tackles the hard problems--the financial budget system is the root of the problem. Just keep slashing jobs when the numbers don't meet expectations. This 100+ year old company will not last with this "strategy". Fix the damn root cause, once and for all.

Amen to all comments! Our group had a "target" leadership ladder, no more than 8. Three people retired. That was the big redesign. Nothing smart about it!

The bozos had a target $ amount of reductions to hit and chopped enough people to hit the $.

There was no Smart ReDesign. Either they are fibbing to the CEO or the whole Smart ReDesign was a sham.

No different from any other department?

No reduction in bureacracy, cords of deadwood still stacked in cubeville, ineffective backstabbing leadership, silos of inefficiency, people milking the system.

TGIF!

If IT Operations is done, they accomplished nothing. No reduction in bureacracy, cords of deadwood still stacked in cubeville, ineffective backstabbing leadership, silos of inefficiency, people milking the system. What a flipping joke. Chuckles should be proud