Thread regarding Ford layoffs

We need to make parts more accessible and available to dealerships to fix customer's vehicles. It's been taking a few months each time I've had to take my F-150 in for repairs because of lack of parts. I've heard employees with management lease vehicles say the same thing.

Livonia Michigan

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is the LL originally from India?

@OP you are correct that the inefficiency is caused by LLx looking after their own careers and not giving a darn about Ford the company. Total Lack of backbone and ethics.

19 years ago LL5 (IT) spun up a 30 member team in India to do an unneeded function. Why was it unneeded? Because it was automated with 32 lines of code. The LL5 created this make work team to satisfy his higher ups. Then he began to report about all the wonderful work this team was doing with 100% accuracy with his outstanding leadership. The reality was that the 30 member team’s work was all going in the trash can while the automation cruised along doing the real work.
The LL5 was promoted to LL4, promotions were also handed out to the India team, and the LL5 (now LL4) repeated his scam over and over which earned him a promotion to LL3.

The funny part was in 2019 after all the tech experts were “retired”, the automation code was removed by some of the remaining staff as they thought it was unnecessary. Oops. Suddenly the now massive Indian team had 0% accuracy. It was too funny watching LL3,LL4,LL5,LL6 and the massive Indian team scramble and try to explain that. You would think that once it was public knowledge that there was a massive team contributing no value that the team would be fired along with the deceitful LL. You would be wrong. The automation was restored and the waste continued. Oh and accolades were handed out to the Indian team and LL for restoring operations - the fact that it was the 32 lines of code automation that was restored was buried and never reported to CIO or CEO.

And if you think this is just a one off example, you would again be wrong.

Addressing issues with vehicle quality, from parts to the people designing them. Hold those groups accountable, but also give them the resources to succeed.

Give employees a sense of purpose, and not to leave them in a limbo where they're constantly fearing being laid off. Be transparent.

Listen to customers and those employees on the front lines who actually know what is going on. Focus on the subject matter experts in each functional area who actually know how to do jobs well.

Eliminate id--tic positions that don't add value, and not through some bean counters who want the stock price to go up a few bucks.

And probably most important, clean house at the top, and get heads collectively out of Tesla's @$$.

Less trackers, more doers. The amount of people that produce nothing but email and spreadsheets is insane.

If you would leave now Ford would be more 'global resource efficient' +1, no ?

@OP. How can Ford be more efficient? Get rid of all those MBA types, the friends and family types, and bring back the technical managers. Simplify the "leadership" by removing 50% or more of managers and eliminating some Leadership Levels.

Believe me, once you are talking technical for a few minutes, you can tell by the glassy looks and the stupid questions/suggestions, that the manager has no clue what you are saying. Even worse, your technical solution, project, task, gets ignored, while some stupid idea gets promoted instead. I have witnessed in several times, how a simple fix became a long and suffering process, without addressing the real causes.

Now we have to do "extra tasks" from people that want to look good with our work, more reporting and updates to all those merit stealer slackers, MBA managers proposing technical solutions, constant reorgs where not always your skills and knowledge align with the tasks at hand... you name the issue and we have it at Ford. We suck big time!

Let alone the dheads at top
This company will be efficient