A lot of them would d_e trying to change a freaking light bulb.
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When you hire LCC folks that have extreme hierarchical tendencies and don’t question the work they’ve been told to do, that’s how you become the #1 worst quality brand in automotive. When you try to challenge these LCC leaders, they actively tell you to go back and do your work without speaking up more.
LL2’s and C-Suite can cry all they want about getting feedback from the lower ranks to help improve the situation, but they made this dumpster fire and have a middle management scared (and culturally misaligned) to speak up and forward the feedback because it makes them look bad. So they keep running the same, highly wasteful processes and actively tell their people to stop speaking up.
Be looking for new employment. This company is completely screwed and don’t let the random HR trolls on this site tell you otherwise. They don’t get a flying eff because they are a major part of why this hierarchy and culture bankruptcy exists.
You are exactly right!
Are you saying that the majority of engineering teams at Ford Motor Company are majority younger people of color?! That's shocking!
A diverse engineering team should include some older white men in their 50s and 60s. Ford doesn’t have diverse engineering teams.
V still equals IR no matter how diverse you are. same for F = ma. live it. learn it. test tomorrow.
That’s what vocational schools are for - mechanics. People who are passionate about getting hands dirty should go there and companies who need those skills should value those trades more
I believe the engineers today are educated with the most current information and technology.
What we need is a more diverse group of engineers to really move us beyond our competition!
Last time I checked vehicles are still collections of physical parts that interact.
@acb do you have any clue as to where electronic components come from? Have you ever repaired one? You are a 🤡, Model e or Ford Next, I’m sure.
@nkw+1nPC7Gc1 "I wonder how many LL3+ have gotten their hands dirty"
I know of at least one Ford exec who's pretty handy with a butane torch.
This point you are making is much less significant today and in the future than it may have been in the past. Do you not realize how technically advanced the vehicles are today? How advanced our cae analysis capabilities are? How much today's vehicles are all digital and software based?
Thus the old hands on approach is not as valid as before. Issues and advancements can all be worked from a station.
I’ve met my fair share of Ford lifers that cannot change a spark plug so I don’t think that is a change. I wonder how many LL3+ have gotten their hands dirty though because the suggestions we receive from that level are almost always asinine.
So true.