https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/09/24/2025-18473/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b
No discretionary travel any more
A coworker was reimbursed $1k every quarter to fly to our office. That is money that could be going into BF/JF/DF pockets.
I'm worried it's going to be bad this time.
people have been looking for work for over 6 months. wish everyone the best of luck Monday.
Why Hasn’t JF Been Replaced Yet??
What is taking so long???
Moderator Please
Is there a way to clean up this garbage of a site? One guy keeps posting nonsense talking to himself.
Ford suspended F150 Lightning-Indefinitely
Change of plan. Ford is pulling out of trying to make the F150 EV that they can't sell. Wall Street liked the announcement and Ford stock is up today. This is good for Ford. Layoffs will start soon. Great cost reduction plan. Ford already... — read more
It's coming Monday
Heard the cuts come on 27th. Decisions about names already made.
Michigan Central CEO to depart organization
Well the Train Station looks nice, but is a money pit for taxpayers and Ford. There are supposed to be. 5,000 w2 employees working there today, nowhere near that.
Farley: learn to read a script without sounding like you are reading a script!!!
Listening to the earnings call I’d PAINFUL!
Model E is 1.4B leg iron in Q3
Under what conditions will the Model E recover its development costs and investments, CE1 is do or die.
Ford Spends 51 Million on Protests
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/ford-foundation-funnels-51m-into-no-kings-protests-over-2-700-marches-supported/ar-AA1OYYDy
What's up with HTHD / Sal grade 2
Appears to be arbitrary in that folks with less technical work than me have it, folks equivalent to me in technical work have it, some folks that are more technical than me don't have it, some orgs hand it out like candy and others like mine seem to... — read more
Bailing out of Ford
Huge volume sold today on lower price, sounds like tomorrow’s earnings call will be Farley making excuses.
Retiree Medical Benefits
Does anyone know or have a resource they can point me to that explains "cash pay" versus COBRA?
New WHQ setup will impact productivity
New building has so many wide open spaces, but no practical place to do work. Why can't every desk have an ergonomic chair and monitors? Pretty sure the couches, benches and cushy chairs outnumber the actual workstations.
Sheila should take over the motor company
Billy couldn't run the Lions. hand it over too your smarter sibling that edured the criticism and a chorus of boos then brought success to the families football team. Sheila should be CHAIRWOMAN of the board at Ford. Signed--- not BCG.
Question to IT about our data center
About 10 years ago we launched 2 new data centers. When JF took over as a CEO, I heard someone in IT saying JF wants everything to go to external cloud. In light of today’s AWS outage, what do IT people think of JF’s view and the danger of external... — read more
Got a question. Why o' why does Ford need sooo many levels of Executives at this company??
What do these Ford Executives do all day long?
no myfordbenefits
We are experiencing technical difficulties. Please try back later, we apologize for any inconvenience, thank you for your patience. © 2025 Alight Solutions. All rights reserved. and remote start is dead for all cars which have it. who needs... — read more
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outage Affecting Ford?
I know Ford went to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) a few years back, but I'm sure there is some AWS usage still around.
Building Industrial Excellence Separate Room Count
I was at 12, granted my attention was not full. #collaboration
Why are most of the managers at Ford stupid?
Why do so many of them lack common sense? What’s the criteria for promotion? Inability to form a full sentence or what?
DF Apple Rumor
Has anyone else heard that Doug is going to Apple to assist with their in-house AI program? A few people mentioned this during a meeting late last week.
This sums it up
https://youtube.com/shorts/bP6L6kbz2lM?si=U_3CnJs74rLXJMWw
40 Reasons No One Should Buy a Ford
Make sure you read this article. https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/40-reasons-no-one-should-buy-a-ford-in-2025/ss-BB1r4Q2g?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=68f4e59f63e74e83b49953155ce56a61&ei=31#image=41
How is Skunk Works Doing?
Generally curious... how is the skunk works team doing from anyone on the inside? Is it genuinely a contender?
Discipline up to termination - RTO
Ford is all talk and no action. Those engineers that have been working from home in Michigan are still working from home. I don't see them at the office or the plants that I am working everyday. Ford should track their badge, when they swipe in... — read more
Clueless People Leaders
Are there any technical people leaders anymore? Seems like they are focused on bringing in leaders that have no skill, but claim to be great coaches. We are in a death spiral and need technical leaders who can help solution, not leaders who want to... — read more
Mark Fields admits Ford did not anticipate consumer demand for EVs.
https://www.businessinsider.com/former-ford-ceo-mark-fields-automaker-invest-ev-consumer-demand-2025-10
Ford Tag libe should be 'An H1B Company'
Ford has more than 10k employees on H1B/H4/OPT Visas, it's the largest Visa bag holder Automaker in US. Time to change the tag line, Great Job Guys!!!
RTO Terminations
Any for non compliance?
Ford’s Exec Reshuffle from GM
Heard from the grapevine that there's more exec reshuffling happening at the top. From GM...
Money slashed $100M from Kentucky battery project
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2025/10/09/trump-energy-cuts-could-affect-kentucky-evreportedly-weighing-major-cuts-to-kentucky-energy-projects/86570969007/ TL;DR: The Trump administration terminated about $100 million in grant... — read more
Corporate Enshitification Tax
https://www.youtube.com/live/eSXjz0-8Q8s?si=ppwY032lzrpaEvSB 55:45 - Aaron Clarey gives Ford its lashings.
All new talent needed
Too bad we don’t have new talent in the CEO office: https://fordauthority.com/2025/10/ford-ceo-jim-farley-all-new-talent-was-needed-for-universal-ev-platform/
Mustang GT3 — Two Wins in Five Months, Still Something to Smile About 🏁
Yeah, Ford’s had its share of rough patches — nobody’s pretending otherwise. EV delays, reorganizations, the usual noise. But every once in a while something cuts through all that and reminds you why this place still matters. Back in May, the... — read more
Ford is running out of cash, selling off historic assets, jobs are not safe
From the Freep: For the first time ever, Ford to sell a car from its private vault to the public Ford Motor Co. is opening its private vault of vehicles, for the first time ever, to sell a rare supercar to the public at auction. The plan is to use... — read more
This link sums it up. Ford is not American company.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4_KErk3XfM
Ford Billy and Jimi
https://archive.is/DuZGe
Big one coming for ivi
Those who thought ivi is safe have big one coming soon, all ivi work will move to Canada except the LL6/ll5 , they have to manage it or leave as well. Big ramp-up is happening on the other side so that’s a reliable news