Farley explanation was absolutely id--tic. He had to reach out to other CEOs to get a feel for RTO. Then he follows that dousy of an answer with an absurd answer related to company culture.
These executives are way out of touch with reality, and then they wonder why employee morale is at all time lows.
Yo Farley next time listen to your employees the ones you employ… you know the employees that do the job of making your company successful.
@kn I’m pretty sure this is what happened with fnv4 / model e
Money laundering
Quality and Electric make us UNsuccessful. No one wants an electric vehicle. VPs were forced to get one from My Ford Vehicles (mgmt lease program with insurance coverage - tell me again how out of touch VPs are?) HA! Anyway, some of the VPs bought vehicles so they could use for travel and avoid charging. Even our VPs dont want them!!
@kn controlled collapse money laundering
@bj 💯 colluding with other CEOs (not conferring)
When I was a kid my dad would complain about how all the shippers raised their rates and package rules simultaneously. I waitressed during college. Once a month all the execs from the regional shippers could be found at a table in the restaurant discussing rates. Mystery solved. Yep illegal but difficult to prove with no paper trail.
@OP the talking points from Boston Consulting, Bain etc to CEOs. You notice they are mostly all singing the same tune
Advice also provided on how to gate in changes so they do not lose the hearts and minds of the employees during the transition. In other words, turn the sc--ws slowly so there is not a stampede to the exit (or a strike) before you reach your end goal (off-shoring, mass layoffs, benefit cuts or whatever)
It’s really not about RTO. Guaranteed after the dust settles there will be teams going back to WTF. So absorb what is happening, decide if you want to be a part of it, take action.
Successful??
Not nearly as funny as you with that boot lodged halfway down your esophagus
@ek where’d you hear rumor they resigned Farley? If it’s true, I need to get out of here.
@ek Based on the provided information, there is no recent evidence suggesting that Jim Farley has signed a new contract with Ford Motor Company. Jim Farley's appointment as President and CEO of Ford became effective on October 1, 2020, replacing Jim Hackett. His compensation package for 2024 included an unchanged base salary of $1.7 million,.
@a4 sadly the rumor is not true. JF just signed for another 2 years. RTO is here and "we will love it".
Yea, I love having more expenses! Paying more in fuel, food. GLT doesn't know a thing about paying more costs for fuel - thanks to their fully serviced/fueled vehicles and delivered meals.
Sadly that is not even thr worst part...
RTO has decreased productivity with the disruptive office chatter and walk ups to ask you or a surrounding squatter questions.
Let's be honest the RTO is in hopes of more quitting to eliminate another mass head count reduction. If your are waiting on a buyout don't bother. The new performance plans are yhe company's ticket against lawsuits. So if you received any 1s writing is on the wall.
Hey GLT- 2 days a week RTO would have been sufficient. Could have cut more ofc space needs by offsetting some depts. M/W and other depts. T/TH or something of that structure.
Hats off to you JF / GLT / stockholders for 4 day RTO. More non-productive work days coming 9/1!
@ay That was one of the d-mbest things I’ve ever heard an executive say in one of these meetings. Ford’s C-Level “leadership” is pathetic.
The commenter put the TH chat comments into chatGPT and posted the verbatim response. ChatGPT said the comments were overwhelmingly negative (~65%) and showed a high level of distrust and anger. Many comments about lack of transparency on RTO, lack of data to support the decision, cr-ppy and insufficient facilities, people being upset about the complete about face on environmental goals, anger about locking features behind subscriptions, and more.
About 25% of the comments were neutral and about 10% were positive (mostly the “good morning from x” comments and positive response to the policy presentation).
The ChatGPT summary was completely objective and didn’t break any of the internal posting guidelines.
@c1 oh totally just that, when I joined, it was genuinely good, interesting, respected, and cutting edge. Its sad mostly, they need us more than I need them. Farleys also not an id--t so I mostly took him putting on the villain hat as hes on his way out. Ill be fine either way, besides this year Ford was decent to me. Ill have no issue getting something new.
Corporate "culture" is a made up HR fairly tail. They need to make more money. Thats it. Drive profits. All the other patriotic cr-p is not how they run thier lives. If the conditions aren't right for you, leave. Dont try to change it because you survive by compliance not by going against the grain. This is the big lie. For quality to improve you need to make quality = to compliance. Its management stupid.
@bj the CEO can’t own his decision because they co e from Bill Ford. Bill needs 5,000 w2 paychecks in the train station and has 2 battery plants in build process that have minimal utilization. It’s all about how well the Ford family is living.
And there you have it - the CEO can't own his decision because he doesn't understand it himself. If he did, he wouldn't reference other CEO's. Ford is full of this, and its why it will fail if leadership isn't changed. No leadership and no vision. Look at TVM. All benchmarking is interested in is what everyone else is doing. Hard to come up with original ideas copying everyone else.
@ az - I missed it and the chat. Please summarize
I attend these to watch the chat comments for the pure entertainment value. JF statement to the effect of “the data shows RTO increases productivity” was met with an immediate flurry of the same three word comment from many: “share the data”.
Love the use of AI to summarize the “pulse” of the workforce from the chat. Probably would save money money on the annual pulse surveys.
He spat in our face for an entire hour
Buddies with trump things are going great
Its great to have no environmental regulation
Throw out all our values and culture of being a modern tech company
Open to dolly parton 9-5 which was really a let them eat cake moment level of irony/cruelty
Culture question was clearly about moral and was turned into “the only culture problem we have is people arent working hard enough”
Be meaner to those around you
Did he ever consider the best talent wanted to work on EVs because they do care about the world?
They already took it down. Fu--ing pathetic.
@az the comment has now been deactivated
Did you see the comment on the company site where the person put the live employee comments made during the TH meeting into Chat GPT and asked for a summary? Pretty telling...
Just remember...If you can find a person who does your job better than you it's up to you to get them to hire on and then leave for the good of the company. OK!
If you were hired just over two years ago and your best is coming up. You’re on the chopping block.
The Amazon culture has been installed. Expect forced ranked mid year performance reviews. PEP enrollment. Then performance cuts.
HR and executive management has tested this method in Q1 and Q2 for their “talent evaluations” and now they’ll scale it up.
People being upset about having to be in the office to get paid are funny! 🤣
@ae The purpose of getting rid of cubes was because management realized that it didn’t matter where information workers worked as long as they had a computer and an internet connection.
And this is true.
If you notice WHQ, more departments are claiming office space as their own. You spend 10 to 15 mimutes trying to find suitable space. So, are we slowly going back to designated areas? If so, what was the purposed of getting rid of cubes?
The guy has no problem jet setting around the world to do his precious GEMBA walks, but won’t come down the street and talk to us.
He instead gets feedback from CEOs who answer to shareholders. Terrific.
He actually mentioned Amazon as one of the companies whose CEO he talked to. Amazon, that runs its employees ragged and is roundly detested by nearly all who have worked for them.
What a clown.
Interesting that people who do the work is never consulted and instead people who don’t any real work are consulted. Where are we going ?
The beatings will continue until moral improves.
The sparkle in JF's eyes is gone. He was a talking head today. Maybe the rumors of him leaving/getting left are true.
And the comment about looking for talent for 6 months and landing on DF...I actually laughed out loud.
This is the same id--t who once said,, we want to treat out employees as adult and makes no sense to force RTO!!!
Throw him out now!!
You know I wouldn’t mind RTO if it actually made sense. When AM was CEO our team made a case to LL5 that in order to meet our deliverables we needed quiet days where we could concentrate and crank out quality code. We were allowed to all work 4x10. In the office and meetings on Monday and Wednesday. WFH Tuesday and Thursday no meetings allowed. Productivity soared. Now we are 4 days in noisy disruptive offices with Swiss cheese calendars filled with meetings. LL6 and LL5 not understanding that we need large contiguous blocks of quiet time to get work done.