Do we have any idea when the next round of cuts will be?
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@8zhy+196OCshP Is correct the pulse is not anonymous.
LL5 had meeting to discuss Pulse and looked directly at the people who had made comments in the pulse as she discussed the comment. There was blowback on each person. All were either encouraged to apply for other positions or were cut.
The LL5 threatened all of us after the meeting indicating there had better not be anything negative in the next pulse.
Don’t waste your time doing pulse.
Pulse is definitely not anonymous. It was theoretically anonymous a while back but probably the last 10 years or so you have to authenticate. I ceased doing pulse long before that after being punished for speaking a minor truth. For something that management claimed was anonymous and they didn't know who said what, management came to question me on my exact verbiage all the while insisting they had no idea who said what and that our meeting was nothing more than mere coincidence. I asked why I was the only one they were meeting with on Pulse. They didn't have an answer.
I don't answer or participate in any survey or information gathering process. I just smile and nod these days and simply no longer care. Now? I'm simply a employee collecting a paycheck. I try to do the right thing and do quality but do I care about Ford? No, I don't. Lie to people, throw them under the bus and stab them in the back, then wonder why your workforce isn't engaged. It doesn't take a genius.
In 20 years, I completed the pulse one time, ended up on the layoff list after giving an honest description of the poor management in Finance....after always being a high achiever. I just couldn't hold it anymore. When they tell you the pulse is anonymous....don't believe them. As a matter of fact, don't believe anything they tell you, even if you're in the 'in crowd' of backstabbing cronies selling your soul.
Ford will need to cut 25% in PD and Support to fund the train station. CHOO CHOO
15% starting 2/1/21.
As far as I can remember I always wanted to be a LL, being a LL was better than being President of the United States. To me, it meant that I would somebody in a department full of nobody’s. The LLs would double book their meetings, and they played solitaire on their computers and no one ever called HR.
according to HR headcount model described by a SRD'ed LL3, if there are no new projects in the pipeline, the HR model requires between 5 and 7% headcount reduction.
Wherever at Ford there is no new programs then the axe will swing by, in the other hand like in the case of Electrification projects there may be a need for more heads. However, since those jobs are highly specialized there may be a situation where personnel from targeted divisions may not be able to transfer to other divisions hiring people because they do not meet the required technical profile.
After Ford, it's all over. And that's the hardest part. Today, everything is different. There's no action. I have to wait around like everyone else. Can't even get decent food. I ordered a burger at Miller's and they made me pay for it right away. No honor system for me. I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.
It looks like a lot of people didn't get the Goodfellas analogy. Getting wacked.. I mean getting fired.
When Tommy got fired, Jimmy was very upset. It was for mistakes on the Explorer launch. His LL was a company made man, and he wasn’t. We had to sit still and take it. It was among the executives it was real grease ball s**t. They even fired Tommy in the face, so he couldn’t collect unemployment.
Firings must be accepted. The threat of being fired is the only way that everybody stays in line. You get out of line, you get fired. Everybody knows the rules. But sometimes, even if people don't get out of line, they get fired. Firings just become a habit for some managers. Contributors get into arguments over nothing and before you knew it, one of them was fired. They fire all the time. Firing people is a normal thing. It is no big deal.
Does is like a large ship unable to change course very quickly
It’s got to start this quarter. Auto manufacturing profit in 2020 was less than zero. They have to cut to show shareholders they are doing something before we report Q1 2021 earnings.
If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to fire you, doesn't happen that way. There weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. See, your managers come with come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your career. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest and most in need of their help, and then they fire you.
Based on past cuts, Ford will cut North America after it has finished the South America cuts. At present the details of all the South America cuts have not been publicized. I would expect end of second quarter or third quarter for North America cuts, unless Farley is able to accelerate the usual sluggish Ford processes.
It seems a bit too quiet on that subject which makes me worried.