I wish I could leave like so many of you are doing - and good on you for escaping this shithole! - but I'm at the point where leaving would be practically impossible and I would gain exactly nothing. I'm now just trying to retire with my sanity intact, that's it. If somebody told me more than 20 years ago this is how I would be feeling near retirement, I would have called them a liar.
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@2wbo+1gxdTo4u At some point the fallacy of that statement will be apparent.
Right now every company is claiming they are a tech/data company, clothing stores, restaurants, insurance companies, energy companies, food producers, manufactures are all saying no we are not a XYZ company we are a tech / data company. It’s a fad label that means absolutely nothing. Years ago everything had a AI label, then a data warehouse label, then a data mining label, on and on going clear back to the 1970s (and likely before). Every couple of years a new fad label is created.
Ford is an auto manufacturer. Plain and simple. Everyone with functioning grey matter knows this. All the hype and pretending is just that hype and pretense.
If Ford leadership doesn’t wake up and pay attention to the core business, Ford won’t be an auto manufacturer either.
More evidence that today's careers are in data, software, clouds, and analytics. Anything else and you are wasting your time and career. Hardware knowledge is useless in the automotive industry right now.
@2eif engineering is in a sorry place. Both my kids have engineering degrees, one a Masters and the other a PhD, and neither one actually works in engineering anymore. They started there, but make a lot more money in other management roles at software companies.
What happened to engineers being engineers? Today, they leave for other pastures because their only way to get more money is to get into management, which is a ki---r of skills and talent. And that is what has happened at Ford unfortunately.
Was SRD’d in 2019. LL5 with more than 30 years in. Very upset at the time. Went to retail side of the business and earned more in 3 years than the last 20 at Ford. Best thing that ever happened. Set for life.
Pre 2019 the cuts mostly hit non-producers and political casualties.
The 2019 SRD signaled the beginning of a new era at Ford, the cuts were primarily based upon cutting highest paid with pension along with some political casualties. This meant they cut the best employees, and they immediately hired “replacement” employees but they simply have not been able to replace what they cut.
The 2019 SRD mentality has continued and is the new normal.
Plain foolishness. Name one successful small business owner that cuts their best employees and keeps the dregs. Name one Ford leader who would be able to start and successfully run their own small business.
Obn lol you obviously are not familiar with the class action lawsuit that cost Ford millions to settle out of court because emails uncovered from Robinson Chief HR clown showed SRD intent clearly to fire those with large pension liability to Ford…zero to do with incapable people whining in the break room . That would be most Ford execs
@obn Ah, the irony again. You were probably part of the 2019 SRD that holds resentment toward Ford because you were one of the employees spending 75% of your time in the breakroom whining about everyone on your team not doing any work. And, you, being a legend in your own mind, thought it was such an injustice to be SRDd. Now, you just troll the Ford layoff page because you are still butthurt.
Even if you're cut tomorrow, you still have most of your pension. Have a cup of coffee a Morbolo and relax. You will be fine.
The vast majority getting cut have NOTHING!
@zwc+1gxdTo4u And you sound like a useless corporate bootlicker.
@zwc Did you catch the irony of your post?
Companies today are playing by their own rules of which they don't share (said rules) with their employees. Basically, there is no more loyalty among American companies. Companies do what they want chasing the bottom line. They don't care who they layoff. Or care who they cheat out of their pensions/retirement. Or care whose lives they destroy. So I don't blame employees that take the approach of doing just enough to not get fired. Hard work and dedication are no longer rewarded. All the while the employees (most) are trying to do a good job, hold on to their jobs and plan for retirement.
The executives at the top are who destroy companies with their bad decisions and lack of foresight. Then when the time comes, it the employees in the trenches that pay the price while those at the top walk away with their golden parachutes.