Heard from the grapevine that there's more exec reshuffling happening at the top. From GM...
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Oh boy, this is going to explode! WHO writes this nonsense….
@yn Do they wear a leather vest, leather cap, leather facemask and leather chaps when they punish? I just might apply at Ford. "Thank you, sir! May I have another"? (Followed by deep and heavy breathing! You cannot make this S***T up. Is there going to be a movie released soon?
@1d2 They always point the finger at lower level employees. Especially when it is the middle finger after employees try to provide truthful information about failed leadership appointments both past and present. Failure still happening? Can't blame the ones who left or were terminated. So, who does that leave? HINT! I'd start with those with 15+ rears of seniority. Do the math! Those with 25 years or more should be dumped immediately. Can't figure out when failing started. OK. Then who with the longest length of employment FAILED TO STOP FAILURE? S-I-M-P-L-E!
Buck stops with leadership. That's why they are leaders. At the end of the day do they just point the finger? Is that leadership? How should we approach dealing with leadership that blames employees but doesn’t take ownership? What does that tell us? Interested in your answer.
@16b I think they were referring to plants and animals.
@16a You probably never been in a plant.
What is this psycho babble, animal training, really? Last time I checked humans were animals too, unless you’re a plant.
What often begins as a workplace issue can quietly transform into a need for control. The first interpretation feels procedural, even responsible; the next, corrective—an insistence that the subject respond in a way that validates the observer’s feelings. When that fails, the story shifts again and again, then finally softened through reinterpretation and small jokes meant to signal that everything is fine. In behavioral language, the reinforcement pattern stays the same, an escalation followed by a release that frames the outcome as harmless. There’s a certain confidence in that rhythm, the quiet conviction that one’s framing must be right because it feels orderly. Yet the absence of visible injury doesn’t mean the conditioning never happened it only means the subject learned to hide their injury.
@yz Yes of course, the "learning process". Prompting and shaping are two actions we can use together to change behavior in an iterative manner. A prompt is a cue or stimulus that encourages the desired behavior. When shaping begins, any approximation of the target response is reinforced. Once you see the approximation occurring regularly, you can make the criterion for the target more strict (the actual behavior has to match the desired behavior more closely), and you continue narrowing the criteria until the specific target behavior is performed. This tactic is often the preferred method of developing a habit gradually and of training ANIMALS to perform a specific behavior. Be careful not to over-control or overly subdue the animal. If you suppress natural behavior too much, it can harm their autonomy, dignity, or effectiveness. In animal training, this might mean they lose initiative or confidence. In people, it can feel like manipulation or loss of free will. We are talking about animals though, right?
@yy Punishment is often applied unequally. We are ruled by bias in our assessment of who deserves to be punished. We scold men more often than women, physically punish new grads more often than adults, and control members of racial minorities more often (and more harshly) than whites. Punishment inhibits the ability to learn new and better responses. Punishment leads to a variety of responses -- such as escape, aggression, and learned helplessness -- none of which aid in the subject’s learning process. Punishment also fails to show subjects what exactly they must do and instead focuses on what not to do. This is why environments that forgive failure are so important in the learning process. What may be the "lesson" could very well be coercion disguised as punishment to make them do something that is seemingly irrational to their natural judgement.
@yt Well, punishment often triggers a fight-or-flight response and renders us aggressive. When punished, we seek to flee from further punishment, and when the escape is blocked, we may become aggressive. This punishment-aggression link may also explain why abusing parents come from abusing families themselves. So if you think about it, that makes it harder for you to be mad at those causing turmoil against you. Let them harm you. It's not their fault you reacted over something their parents did to them.
@yn If you question authority or try to reach out internally on why they are doing something like this to you, you'll be labeled insubordinate and punished by your line of "superiors". It's a double bind really, because the attempts escalate when there is no reaction...
It's sort of like being hit once more for asking why you were originally hit in The Blind Side. Sort of like getting punched in the face and then getting punched again for "making their fist hurt" on loop while everyone replays the hit for entertainment
@h4 Your objective is to prove you are wrong and if you fail to do so you will be punished. If you are not wrong, that is a paradox. The acceptance criteria explicitly states that the deliverable must show an outcome where you are wrong, therefore it is implied as true.
@h3 Maybe you couldn’t achieve them, what does that tell us?
@dp You can blame the leadership because they made the asinine objectives that no one could achieve!
Henry Ford was stiffed by bankers in the 1920’s which helped form his distaste of hebrews.
Many trolls here like @dp+1k7mtdg1p
Probably HR or Clueless LL4 promoted after the 30 min with lipsticks.
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How can you blame Leadership if the GSR working levels are not delivering on their part of the Ford+ transformation plan?
To solve a problem, you have to identity the problem first. Thing is, how do you know that YOU are the problem. How do you make senior leadership admit that they are the problem?
@cg if I accidentally say psycho plan in a meeting I blame you
And then he puts a GM guy in charge of the cycle plan? I guess the bat approach didn't work.
BTW, because of the complete failure this place has been, in my head it's the "psycho plan" because I feel you would have to be criminally insane to run things the way they are.
Throw jf and drop out , they stink
I guess Farley's feelings about GM have evolved:
"We're going to beat on them, and it's going to be fun," said Farley. "F—- GM. I hate them and their company and what they stand for. And I hate the way they're succeeding."
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