Starts in November. Best of luck everyone. It's tough out there.
Amazon just laid off 33k
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It’s November 3 and no layoffs reported so far.
LFG! Can't wait!
Confirmed by vampires it’s coming soon
@c4 Can confirm, my bodhisattva told me this was the case.
@af I mean, to your point at the end there, lots of former GM, Chrysler, and ford employees stop buying the vehicles and recommend their families not to following cuts. Also can’t stop a disgruntled employee from telling everything that went on at their job to friends and family after the manner they were cut. So it happens, but probably not in large enough numbers to do much.
I just took a sh-t, this one is true based on careful deliberation of size, color, consistency, and density - my most accurate reading yet.
It's actually going to happen Friday when we are WFH as it is the end of the pay period
Confirmed by JF, just had lunch with him. He said to let the crew at thelayoff.com know it was nothing personal and that him and DF prefer reading comments on blind.com and Glassdoor.
Honestly, what do you get out of posting this tired joke? Just rage bait at this point?
Confirmed by my LL7
@af+1k8nejq95 That is being ignorant of how the world works. You can boycott Ford, or GM, but it will be very hard to boycott all auto companies in America. You'll need a car to move around, unless you live in NYC, or move to Europe.
Now, the capitalism motivation is greed. And as such, imbalances are created, and the way to correct such imbalances is through recessions. So, like in the Bible, we have 7 years of fat cows, and 7 years of skinny cows.
During the "fat years", many customers buy cars. During the "skinny years", few customers buy cars. So the auto industry reflects that. Hiring on "fat years" and layoffs in "skinny years".
Now, companies should always keep the "core" employees. These are the ones that know the business and make the difference. In the auto industry, these are the engineers and designers. Accountants, IT, marketing and more, are just "fluff" that can be replaced easily. Too bad that at Ford, managers are considered "core", while engineers and designers are let go.
That's why Ford is paying those "savings" in employee salaries/pensions with market share losses.
Every week it's "Big cuts at Ford next week!". A bit of a running joke all year.
After 15 years in industry going thru so many upheavals and lay offs, I question the fundamentals about the automotive corporate world. Why we let them treating us this way and why we let them grow? Many companies could be simply boycotted, stop buying products and doing any business. My thinking.
That Amazon RiF might be just the cover Ford is looking for so people won’t notice a “few”-k cut of their own.
This is what the evidence is pointing towards. Scary times. I worry for those with mortgages.