With never-ending layoffs, managers who can't wait to find a way to trip you up, and the melting benefits, it's been a non-stop stressful ride for months - or maybe even years. I'm tired of it. I don't know how much more of this I can take. I'm close enough to retirement to want to stay, but I can't imagine having to go through this for another four years.
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expecting more layoffs at ford....demand is dying so will the workforce
Quiet quitting….
Must be a youngling. They didn't complain about back pain or that they are being send around too much or that they can't keep up with too much email. Read what people really have to say or sht it. Some people also make the mistake of looking for purpose in life. A greater goal. Commitment.
Maybe more like in the olden days where "your career" lasted longer than the 2 years it takes nowadays to be outpaced by technological demand and now you are irrelevant and have to start from scratch. Or where Wallstreet dictates that being old (say above 35) is not hip and woke is now the future of everything cause the press dictates if you live.
That’s why it’s called, “work.” Either stop whining and stay at Ford or find a new job.
If you are that close to retirement, you have been with Ford long enough to know Ford is a never ending sh#t show. Waste, incompetent Sr leaders, chaos, layoffs....wash rinse repeat year after year. 20+ yrs myself and just praying to hang on to finish. To far into wasting a career to walk away with nothing after all the years of suffering. The minute I lock in my time, out the door I go. Sad that after believing and working to save the y each time a id--t Sr leader made decisions that nearly blew up the company that I feel this way.
It doesn't. I shared my story on this forum many times. I was at a company that went through this for 6+ years out of my 10 years there. Between the stress of receiving that mysterious email telling you to report to a specific conference room on Thursday/Friday with no details (we all knew what the e-mail was after the first 3-4 rounds of layoffs), having survivors guilt, or the endless meetings after each round with management straight up lying to you telling the layoff's were over and to get your mind right focus on your job (despite having half your team gone in some layoffs).
My first 2 years were fine with 2 very minor layoffs. The next 5 years was a gutting of entire teams/areas with a flame thrower on a (mostly) biweekly schedule. I was able to work remote for my last 3 years there so I was offsite not personally seeing the damage but hearing about it and that lessoned my stress.