Thread regarding Ford layoffs

Phoebe Wall Howard..... the journalist version of an ambulance chasing lawyer.

Almost everyday I see promotions at the LL5 and higher. Pretty soon there will be a manager or Chief for every GSR. I did a rough count of how many VP’s in the company, nearly 60+, so that gives you an idea on the number of LL2’s and below, it’s huge. But you know, we need them to keep the redundant meetings and reviews going. NOT!!!

F@ck off!

I am more concerned about my employment status than yours.
Good Luck!

Me thinks some LL5s are telling tall tales about not knowing about the impending cuts and having their thumbs on the scale.

The fact that the LL6s and LL5s were unaware means Directors+ chose the people who were cut. This is a joke seeing how Directors+ don’t know the people or the work they are doing. Must be still using the BCG SRD software. Employees get cut based on cost to the company … period

Gotta love these auto beat reporters. Sit at home in their jammies and wait for the latest press release from the Detroit 3 and then spring into action. Add a paragraph here and there and call it reporting. If summoned to the Glass House, RenCen or Auburn Hills they are expected to promote the latest product or great idea. Don't ask any critical questions for fear of being shutout by Mary, Bill or Jim, etc.

If the quarterly numbers don't look good just accept the excuses (Rivian, Covid, Ukraine, Insufficient Worker Skillset, chip shortage) and move on. Couldn't possibly be bad management or bad product or too high of pricing.

But when you need some commentary from "let go employees", troll the Layoff site. Then run those comments by your "handlers" at the auto companies and write the article with all of those comments neatly disputed by company spokesperson.

Someone has to pay for my bonus (increase) and my merit.
We live in a world where we made a decent amount of money but way less than quarter before due to Rivian devaluation (which I couldn't take advantage of anyway so don't care) so if someone has to lose out so I can win it is what it is.
C'est la vie.

Phoebe baby
You are a coporate ho.
Go away!

Go the f*ck away!
Now.

Whats wrong Phoebe, is there nothing else you can write about? How about a nice little bit about Billy the philanthropist? Or Billy the sharp business mind? Nah, being a maggot and feasting on the human suffering makes you happier, right?

signing the severance paperwork means you can never again be employed by Ford

Not only was the LL6 blindsided, but so was the LL5! LL4 and up signed non-disclosures about the actions leading up to D-day.

This is your most trusted company at work people! Buy other makes and let Ford tank.

One could argue that this "reduction" was botched as well. The transparency from Ford has been terrible. Apparently, supervisors did not even know this was going to happen. They were blindsided along with GSR.

I didn't even know this was confined to PD until I read your article. My manager couldn't answer that question yesterday.

F PWH

Unfortunately supervisor/ managers do have there favorites also known as the friends and family plan at Ford! I know I have seen and witnessed it. I worked under a young supervisor, he definitely had his favorites who were as young as he was or younger, His engineers tried to run the meetings like a bunch of cowboys constantly making mistakes and not taking/listening to seasoned coworkers concerns or input. This will cost the company in the long run money and poor quality and service issues! I have witnessed my supervisor constantly flip flopping over design issues that he himself lacked experience and knowledge (it was obvious). Upper management was clueless and oblivious to his presentations during weekday reviews. The bottom line is the company as a whole will keep chasing there tails and never really correcting the root cause to the quality, reliability and warranty issues they keep having to produce a healthy profit consistently. Keep good experience competent people and stop the friends and family plan and you will fix many issues within the company!!

@1ngk that is exactly what Ford “leadership” wants people to think. Do many successive small monthly/quarterly resource reductions so that they stay under federal WARN limits and stay out of the press. 1% reduction is really 30% reduction of North American salaried workers by 2024, all in small bites, have you not had access to the leadership presentations?

Even @ 30% reduction Ford will still be over-staffed with bureaucrats and coasters, everyone knows that contingent has grown to well over 50% of the Dearborn salaried staff, and that group is never cut. After every reduction Ford goes on a hiring spree as they always cut the people with the most skills and talent and keep the coasters and people on the friends and family plan. Sure it makes no business sense, but it makes Ford sense.

It is horrible for those that lost their jobs, but thankfully the job market is probably the best ever right now.

In the grand scheme of things, this should not be a big news story, given the size of Ford - 580 is a rounding error. I feel bad for the 580, of course.

I suspect the magnitude needs to be 10+ times that to right-size this company given their push for EVs and their simpler propulsion designs.

Story just posted:
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2022/04/27/ford-cuts-580-salaried-contract-workers/9561482002/

It would be wonderful to include voices of employees impacted. Please don't hesitate to call or text or email me at any hour.

Thank you for your consideration.

thanks PWH, for your reporting. keep telling us about the good and the bad. there's plenty of both.

You didn’t exactly call it botched though in your article, now did you. It was more of a puff piece to boost up your bud JF we’re doing the right thing that he should’ve done in the first place. Way to try and get people to think you’re on their side now