That time of year again folks. Time to mask a US salary employee layoff under the guise of early separation to "Balance company needs". Rather, out with the old, in with the new, and send more salary jobs to Mexico and China. Simply put, here's our id--tic management's plan. 1) Continue bringing in FCGs. ie. new college hires at high rates of pay with no real experience and promise them all they will be management. Then lock them in for some additional few years with the offer of a free master's degree. 2) Continue mass outside hiring at high salaries of people with no applicable experience or knowledge who then quickly become frightened and clueless when in and cause further internal damage; 3) Target highly skilled people for layoff without regard for what it will do to the product because - who really cares because Ford wants to be a tech company that sells data. 4) Transfer jobs to Mexico and China for the sole purpose of taking advantage of low labor rates to balance their books. Product again be dammed because just need to play accounting games as we are going to make billions selling data, not vehicles.
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Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out
Ford employee here and it has always disgusted both myself and many of my colleagues how Ford has treated its past and current partners. Unfortunately it is a sad demonstration of the toxic culture we have that some at Ford extend their abuse to our partners.
@lkl+1bOLas0K -- Ford has been forcing suppliers to take work to Mexico and China for the past 2-3 decades. Tens of thousands of people (if not hundreds of thousands of people) all lost their jobs because Ford wanting lower cost parts. Never heard you or other Ford workers say one word about it (not counting the UAW). As long as you got a good paycheck and bonus, you were happy. Heck, Ford did even worse to its own employees back in 2000 when they spun off Visteon. Ford gave them an immediate 5% cost reduction in all part pricing to "Make them more competitive". It wasn't like the Ford masters didn't already know Visteon was a bankrupt entity right from the start. As soon as Visteon was spun off, all pensions were frozen for all employees, retiree health care was eliminated, and many, many jobs went to Mexico and China. They had headcount reductions each and every year for the first 8 years - the first year being a 15-20% reduction. I remember many of our Ford colleagues commenting that they didn't care because the bonus would be larger for us due to having less Ford employees and a similar profit margin each year.
What comes around goes around, I guess. It is a pretty simplistic saying, but there is a lot of truth to it. You only care now because it is you now!!!! You should have thought about this the past 20+ years while they were forcing suppliers to cut. There is very little left to cut at the suppliers. Eventually Ford would turn on their own (again).
And don't worry, most people already aren't buying Ford products. You don't have to get the word out to them about the Ford culture for them to buy even less. The quality of Ford products and the way customers are treated by Ford speaks magnitudes of damage more than what you are writing about - the damage is already being done my friend.
Anyway, I have no personal beef with you. I actually wish you good luck and that you won't be affected by any personnel reductions. I don't wish harm to any of our Ford colleagues. I just wish my colleagues at Ford would have cared about what the company was doing to other people the past several decades. But with few exceptions, I only have witnessed typical Ford culture of arrogance and selfishness - something I have despised for the past 25+ years working in PD. The bad culture was never just the pathetic Ford management - it has been and will be after any cuts - all of us (with very few exceptions). Anyone who isn't cut won't care (or won't care for long) about the ones who are cut. That is the historic pattern. And I was always told by our Ford colleagues that this was just business. Well, now everyone has to look in the mirror and tell themselves that this is just business (Much harder to be honest with yourself though)
Ford is the best costumer there is. Nothing will happen. Trust me! I'm there every day seeing it live.
Well you can expect 2-3 years of cuts. This latest is not because of so called "SKILLED SET" but because of auto sales. Plain and simple F-Series was outsold by RAM & Silverado the last quarter. this was in the works for some time. Interesting to see how Ford responds? No more Explorer to fall back on like in the 90s...Those old white guys in truck back then knew what they were doing. Thank you Ford 2000 for doing away with that!.
Heck, anyone over the age of 40 need not apply at Ford. I think it's about time we talk openly about Ford's rampant age discrimination as well as quietly sending white collar jobs to Ford of Mexicoand China. I think a lot of people around the US are not aware and would not purchase. We can change this pretty quick by a getting the word out and if sales start to immediately drop. We need to vote with our wallets sometimes to drive change. If nothing is done, this never stops until your number eventually comes up.
old white men need not apply
Because diversity.
England's diversity was Italy's strength at Euro Championships Sunday.
US diversity is China's strength in the global throwdown
Preach!