So what’s holding you back? I’ll start. Ford is a comfy place where you can sit back, exist and collect a pay check. This not only applying to GSR but also LL rank. So if you are content being on corporate welfare this company is the place to be. Not sure how long this dysfunctional enterprise will sustain however for those that understand what I am talking about, milk it till the udder is dry. If leadership wishes to mismanage this once great company who am I to be the rock in the flow stream, just go with the flow.
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OP does not understand the definition of corporate welfare.
How soon this year until Farley will again throw his engineers under the bus?
Did everyone make their DEI objectives yet? Quarterly PR’s, oh boy.
Glad I’m out .
@OP. You are right. I am willing to work, like I used to before. However, since Hackett, things have gone haywire. It doesn't matter anymore if you are the most hardworking or knowledgeable person in the team. If you are old and with a pension, you are out of the company. Increasingly numbers of id--ts and brownnoses are selected as TA, and recommended in the meetings. The processes and paperwork for doing any task have increased, as well the gaps in procedures and knowledge caused by the layoffs.
So, I could deal with all the stupid actions and try to correct them (Believe me, I tried, and no-one gave a sh-t about it), I could leave the company and deal with different sh-t or I could stay and not give a sh-t. Well, since the Ford family, the real owners of this company, the ones allowing and causing these issues, they don't give a sh-t, managers don't give a sh-t, why should I give a sh-t? I am comfy, under a nice manager, still getting my paycheck, and I can get a another job any time I want, so why should I give a sh-t?
You call it corporate welfare, but I disagree. Corporate welfare has existed for a long time at Ford. Those are the people that get a generous paycheck for not doing or knowing anything. That's not my case, or many other knowledgeable employees that are sitting twiddling their thumbs. We could be doing more, because we are still able to produce quality work whenever we want, just we don't want to do it. The issue is we are not being managed properly, the assigned tasks are not the right ones, the technical advice is being sidelined and no GSR incentives can change that. Change has to come from the top.
I stay cuz the area I’m in isn’t toxic (surprising I know). I’m hoping the culture shifts around the company to actually just do work and not all the toxic bureaucracy that mid-level mgrs insert into the process, since that’s what actually gets us to make good products. I feel we’ll need a few more rounds of “retirements” before that actually happens.
As for Farles, ¯_(ツ)_/¯ he doesn’t seem to do much other than spout his mouth off to make shareholders happy. I’m hoping he increasingly leans on his leadership that have more experience and goes racing more or something, his arrogance just continues toxic culture at the upper echelons.
Because I drive a car, does that make me a “car guy”?
@OP+1kKpdxzP I retired last year. I never milked the system. In simple plain English The pension was my reason for staying. I was offered plenty of jobs outside back in the late 90s through the 2000's.
I did my job. I may have not liked who I worked for but I did the job and beyond that in many cases.
But when you seen the company loose focus and a Id--t for a CEO who insults his workforce then I said to myself it is time to go.
If JF had something to hang his hat on I would listen. But his track record and list of accomplishments are empty. I know very good people that cannot stand the guy, very arrogant again he has no reason to be such given his track record. He is in no way a car guy he proclaims to be. When Bob Lutz was at Ford VP of Truck that was a Product guy You were proud to work in Building #1. We played to win not play second fiddle or to just get by. We listened to our customers and had products people wanted.
Now we have a phony like this clown JF in place right now. Since he has been here we lost market share and we left car markets in the US. But he claims to be a car guy LMAO on that one. He should have a SNL skit for that.
Then we had a VP one time just before COVOID make a comment about how expensive a starter for the F-Series was vs GM because of our test and specs. Well guess what? Those specifications made the F-Series the number one selling vehicle in America. We wanted to be number one not just to get by. Now the engineers are forced to cut corners and focus more on TVM than engineering.
Glad I retired. I feel sorry for those that are left.