This is as usual. All talk and no action. This is why our recalls keeps going up each year.
Build the vehicles, sell them, fix them later.
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@ef+1k0c35atq "They are all there for a paycheck"
Please tell me what company manufactures things for free, or what employee works for free. The incentive for the employee to work is the paycheck/benefits/bonuses, and the incentive for the company is to make a profit. That's not the issue.
At FMC, there are a lot of employees that care about their work, and we try to do a good job. The issue is the leadership. I have submitted solutions to management (for approval) and waited for weeks or months, and what they ended approving is completely different to what I submitted. It is not an isolated case. In this company, managers change designs, vendors and contracts while ignoring the advice of the engineers. That's why our designs su-k.
Then we have the last minute changes, the double work and internal competition (more than one team working in the same issue), the political games (managers trying to take the projects from other teams, or not providing available help to the struggling teams) and the infinite amount of process and red tape. That's why it takes forever to do anything here.
Now, all that was alive but buried underneath during Allan Mullaly and Mark Fields. The employees believed in the company and bleed blue. With Professor MoonBeam and the 2019 layoff, that confidence was shattered. Farley just made it worse, with his lies and always blaming the employees. We have more FnFs, more empire building and more layoffs. Moral is in the toilet. Good employees are laid off or they leave due to the changes made by management. So now we work 40 hours a week, and we don't give a sh!t anymore, because no matter what we do, the result is the same.
BTW, things are going to get worse. With people fuming with RTO, and scared with the threat of upcoming layoffs, nothing good will come out of that. RTO is making some employees upset and not willing to work after hours, or just "being" in meetings with no contributions. I have seen and heard a lot of passive agressive attitudes regarding RTO. The threat of layoffs is making some people to search for another job, or just "give up" (why work if I am a goner anyway). Everybody is in "stand by mode", waiting to see where the axe is going to fall. So, yes, Ford su-ks.
We do not have good leaderships at Ford, that is why our products are not attractive, quality su-ks, service is poor. The only thing Ford is good at is being the king for safety recalls. There are no accountability. No direction. No communication. No one cares about their job.
They are all there for a paycheck. That is the bottom line.
Everything is a 'stop the bleeding' exercise. Theres never any attention to the root of the problems. They always talk about culture change, changing the way we work...nothing ever changes.
3 keys to fixing it: Timing, commonization, car people. If they stuck to those in a strict manner, things would change for the better. They also need to stop living in the EV dream world. Its not the future, its a niche market that got way too much hype and co-mie fed backing.
If a company thinks they have the right problem solvers on board, they just need to ask themselves this one important question: Why do we still have problems? D-U-H!
I thought DF and KG did a fine job of giving us the straight truth and what we need to do going forward.