@2vdh. You are right. Some (not all orgs) did the layoff on Notification Day back in 2019. It was a shocker. Other orgs waited until May.
@2wuz. It is usually a day or two before Mach-15 (that's when the money shows up in the bank account). My guess the Notification Day this year will be March 13 or 14.
@2wuz. Yes, AICP/merit notifications are usually the second week of March. And the LLs have meetings in February to plan the awards. Besides determining which employees get extra and which get less, they may also determine who gets booted. They have done this before.
@1pbw - How long have you been here? Starting on my 5th year here and I already know that merit & AICP meeting doesn't happen until the 2nd week of March. They hold those cards tight until the last minute before you'll see them on the mid-month paycheck.
Idk if y’all spooked me or not but I have a 1:1 on my calendar that is atypical next week.
@1pbw. You are right. Private meetings at this time are probably compensation planning discussions. But SRD 2019 used AICP notification meetings to notify people they no longer had a job - so who knows? The company was pretty clear they wanted many pension eligible to leave last November. They might still have use for a few. Are you wrapping up a major project soon? Are the young people hired last year successfully on boarded? The company went to quarterly check ins to justify quarterly separations. Since that policy was implemented, they cut in April, then August. The only reason their wasn't a large cut in November/December was there were a large number of retirements.
Wow, I'm seeing a lot of wishful thinking. If it isn't Monday it will be very soon after! Lawler said it today. More job cuts are coming. They believe they could have saved $2 billion last year so the job cuts will be a lot sooner than August this year to try to realize the savings earlier.
Good luck to us all.
@1pbw is 100% right. These jack@sses that keep saying that they know layoffs are coming on the 6th or the 24th or after the next full moon are just getting people worked up. So to all you who claim to know for sure and definitely that layoffs are coming and when, STFU! To the rest, try to not let these f00ls wreck your day.... Jimmy does enough of that.
Take it easy. The private meetings next week are most likely to cover AICP and merits discussions.
Everyone should be prepared like a previous poster suggested. Make sure you have a personal cell phone and are not relying on a Ford provided phone for personal use. Make sure you update all places you may have used your Ford number or email at. After 15 years with my Ford phone (and SIRP'd in Aug) I'm still finding random places that have my Ford phone or email as the backup. I was retiring in November so I had done all the recommended steps and my early separation was far less painful than those that had no idea it would happen. I got USB access for a few days to transfer any personal material off my laptop. I had all my important phone numbers, email contacts, paystubs, photos, PR's, and verified most places had my updated info. Getting your ducks in a row now takes a little stress out of your life.
After my Aug22 meeting I went back in my computer and noticed some firmware was added to my computer in early August shutting off the ability to move any files. If you are lucky to have USB memory stick function I suggest you move any personal files. I know we all have this and that on our computers but once they lock you down you can't move any files.
A lls garbage man confirmed this too
Don't think that you are safe because your group is hiring. They are hiring your replacement. You were supposed to retire in November. Now what are they going to do with you?
Yes, there were rumors every week last July and August, but they became credible the week before August 22. LL4 private staff meetings generally give it away. The LLs are getting better at hiding their intentions and are scheduling the 15 minute meetings at the last minute. So you won't know for sure if you are impacted, but who the company targets should be obvious by now. As for younger workers that get sacrificed to balance out older workers, that is less obvious.
Relax, Ford senior leadership firing workers to save their bonuses at the beginning and end every year is a given. It is like rain in the spring and fall leaves dying. If this bothers you I recommend finding a new Company that values the people who do the work. I have two more years to survive the JF, DF collapse. Good luck.
U people don’t recognize the preps for layoffs yet?
I will ask the F 150 guy and post it for you give we until Sat. He knows!
My take on it is that we might or might not see cuts next Tuesday, but we'll definitely be seeing some at some point this year. Regardless of specific timing now is probably a good time to make sure you have copies of any information you may need from Ford systems (eg. tax forms, payroll stubs, job roll history, personal notes), and that nothing not work related has your Ford email listed as a contact, and finally that your CV/resume is current and ready for edits for job hunting.
Yes I knew someone that was part of the August layoff and the week before the layoffs did calendar sleuthing and saw that the LL4 and all of his LL5s except 2 had a private meeting on their calendars on Wednesday afternoon. The following Monday the layoffs happened including the 2 LL5s that weren't part of the private meeting.
Surf those calendars and see for yourself.
Nope, this tracks. I went so far as to go back to my PL’s Pl schedule in august to see the trends of meetings (including day of layoffs). I was equally concerned about next week due to the same pattern happening next week. I called it 3 days ago to my husband, and I’m only speaking up because someone else noticed something. I didn’t want to be a fear mongerer for no reason, but that someone else came to the same conclusion I did on their own…I’ll support. I think the events of next week are suspicious. Don’t believe us, then check your PL calendar and your PL’s PL calendar. See how many appointments are suddenly marked private. Also look for non-reoccurring meetings.
@jrg+1kYqWvzX There were dates being constantly given up to that day in August. Every week there was a new "D-day" posted. The only way people knew it was real that time was when the posts about 15 minute meetings started coming.
Takes a jackhole to know a jackhole......
Where there's smoke, there is a disgruntled employee or former employee who likes to stir the pot. If I had a dollar for every time some jackhole on this site predicted layoffs....
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
Nobody believed Aug. 22, 2022 either, until it happened.
@OP: You have no soul or conscious? If you are mad at the company, fine. But it does no good to all the hard-working employees or to their personal health. Stop this non-sense.
we are hiring.....
Sounds like another lie / made up trolling like usual here.
See you guys on Feb. 7th
Dearborn and each Service Center are included with contract workers that are left.