Thread regarding Ford layoffs

I wouldn't say a damn thing like that. Honestly you should have asked him how they calculate pay and how its connected to your reviews. you may or may not be a sh---y employee but the comment probably. You are evaluated against the other people in your department and its all relatives so you yes you may be the lowest or on the lower end performance compared to your fellow coworkers or dept employees. Maybe you have a lot of all stars maybe there are people smarter than you and know how to get recognition for work well done or get themselves in front of managers because the managers all get together and do your review so if half the managers and supervisors in your dept don't know you guess what happens to your review you get shuffled lower and lower relatively amongst the employees I wouldn't rely on just the one supervisor to sell you as a great employee in that review meeting.

It would appear you are sub-average.

I would be cautious about trying to get past the midpoint of your pay grade. When head count reductions are needed that is one of the metrics that’s is considered, is your salary above that of peers in the same job family. The people making reduction decisions don’t seem to consider that a person has a higher wage because of excellent performance reviews. They see the higher salary and think they can get someone to do the job for less. That, along with pensions, is one of the reasons we saw so many high performers released during SRD. Of course you don’t want to be at the bottom of the performer list either because that always puts a target on your back. Ford seems to value a solid average performer.

In the really old days, the range of pay raises was quite large (up to 10%) and there were fewer limits on the number of O's required to get the larger raises. Today, and for many years, the range of pay raises is quite narrow and are likely in line with the increase in salary ranges for a given GSR level, so it will be difficult to change where you are in the pay scale without consecutive O's or increase via Senior Engineer designation.

I would not have made a passive aggressive joke to your boss about your pay. He or she didn’t show it, but you made him/her mad. Also, if you want higher pay then strive to get the “O” if they still do those and keep your mouth shut or try and get a promotion.

Years ago HR came to our section to discuss the topic of pay ranges. The rep explained that it is their policy to work to drive people to the center midpoint.