Thread regarding Ford layoffs

There are salary non exempt employees within Ford. However, they really like to play the "work this extra this day and just take it off another day" Game.

12 hr days all week long "only" comes to 84 hrs, another 66 on top of that is unbelievable. Not to mention that nobody is actually getting by on a mere 2 1/2 hrs a day "not working" for a week straight, let alone six months. Don't be like management and keep sticking to exaggeration that none else believes even after you've been called out on it.

There is only 168 hours total in a week. The claim of working 150 hours seems a bit exaggerated (to say the least).

I believe the 150 hr happened. That type of thing happened on a team I was on where for 6 months 2 people were required to work 12+ hour days 7 days a week because the LL6’s mouth wrote checks that couldn’t be cashed. On a team of 8, only 2 were competent and the LL6 promised the rest of the year off with pay when the project was done. Yes, it was B.S. and he just kept expecting more when the project was done and got angry when the 2 told him to stick it and stopped working once he told them they had earned zero comp-time. Ford is full of snake oil salesmen LL6 and above.
Rest assured after that incident I never worked any more than 40 hours a week without compensation for overage being in writing and copied up a level.

It definitely does run the gamut here, though tends toward the latter case where comp time was "promised" but without a paper trail that's worthless. And "150 hour weeks" don't happen, but I can believe 150 hr pay periods (essentially 75 hr/wk) since I did work those kinds of hours early in my time here due to poor management. The official, written down, company policy is that you may bank up no more than 80 hrs of comp time. Any manager "promising" that you can bank up more than that, let alone take it all off at once, is lying and abusing you.

It all depends on the LL in the area

In one area I got OT after 10 hours of casual OT, in other words they expected you to work 50 hours a week but if they asked you to work more than that they paid OT.

In another area they did equal swap for comp time only, unless it was Nov /Dec then paid OT as the rules were comp time could not be carried over.

In another area, LL6 did a forced 18 month death march (150 hour weeks) with the promise of 6 months of comptime and a large completion bonus. At the end of the project he claimed we were all liars and we all had willing worked 150 hour weeks and he had promised nothing. Of course HR and management team backed the LL6. Then the con artist gave us all scathing reviews and blocked us from moving within Ford. There was much celebration when the jerk retired in 2021.

Definitely must be the rare exception there. In my area salaried OT was for 20+ years essentially a unicorn that everyone had heard of but few claimed to have seen. Then when it was really was approved for us it was straight time only and then was back off the table in within two quarters.

You're the minority. Vast majority of Ford salaried is exempt. Ave hey no OT pay no matter how many hours they work.

Last poster has no idea what he is talking about.

Work in the studio and am salary. Average 400/year in paid overtime @ time and a half.

They want more OT? You realize salaried gets no OT pay, right? You just proved you have no idea what you're talking about. I've worked 50+ a week for the last 5 years. I don't get a penny more for it.

Ford has way too many useless employees. They have no work to do when they are working from home. Those who are on site are lazy, they only want more overtime. The older workforce are sitting around waiting for a buyout package. Leadership are creating more meetings, spreadsheets, and ppt to make themselves look important. The company is headed for a big failure.

There is not one Ford vehicle that isn’t a pile of scrap metal duct taped together. EVs will be just as poorly built. WRITE ABOUT THAT, PHEOBE THE FARLEY FAN.