Thread regarding Ford layoffs

I retired a few years back, mainly because the leadership void since M Fields was booted ...made it the wild west. Talent was forgotten and shiny powerpoints became the deliverable. Bring your teacher an apple, or get a whipping.
I worked through all the ups and downs and the good and poor leaders. Trust me, the sense you get when they are speaking is actually who they really are. Brilliant leaders and mindless drones - Ford has had both and too many of the latter.

The next 5 yrs is where many automobile makers will go bankrupt.
Ford is leading the way in that list

Bleeding and wasting money is right. Look at the orgs, starting with Musgr@v3$ and DFord. Should be called d-mb ford. They wear you out talking and talking and talking, then run and hide when you tell them to do the work they talked about. Time their circus ring leader got exposed. More concerned with his ‘ resorts ‘ than his job at Ford.

A mess doesnt even begin to describe how bad Ford is. Phoebe, please, examine Next's leadership and probe into what they have done and what they are doing. Expose the fails of F Louis-Victor. Expose the fails of C Mr@n. And the fails of R Ms%r. None of them have added any value to FMC. Billions wasted. Id--ts brought in from FCA, GM, HP, etc etc. The shareholders need to know whats going on and there must be accountability and consequences.

Ford—

https://www.canopy.security/
this is why FLV MUST be terminated
canopeeps?! seriously, no wonder Mo--n was laughed at CES

Books are cooked for sure! Creative accounting.

Get your facts right on BlueCruise. CR also reported " Ford’s marketing of BlueCruise as a “hands-off highway driving experience” is potentially misleading to consumers. "
They tested it on a rented Mach E, while there were some advantages over Tesla's Autopilot and GMs system; GM is what CR preferred.
BTW the hundreds of thousands subscriptions are free trials similar to Sirius.
As far as other tech, there's nothing new and noteworthy being integrated into any of the production programs. Again, lots of talk and nothing is making its way into vehicles customers want.
Meanwhile, managers are freaking out knowing their necks will be PEP'd.
Here's the CR write up; https://www.consumerreports.org/driver-assistance-systems/ford-bluecruise-active-driving-assistance-system-review-a5728630415/

The new ventures of the Ford+ transformation are performing, and performing well. Just look at todays news about BlueCruise courtesy of Consumers Reports. #1 in the industry. Hundreds of thousands of subscription paying happy customers.

That is success in my book. With even more advanced offerings in this space that Doug Field and his team are ready to launch, watch for more positive news soon.

These are very dark times for Ford. Now is the time for a leader to step up.
Leadership is defined as one who provides a Vision and a plan on how to get there.
I feel like Stevie Wonder when I hear JF speak of a vision.

Also leaders do not insult their troops under their command. Instead they inspire them.
Motivate them. Give them a purpose a clear objective. Again JF has failed miserably at this.
I retired last year. I was able to see some good CEOs Peterson and Mullaly are at the top.
As for good managers as CEO that would include Red Polling , Fields,

Troutman was a nice guy but F2000 clearly demonstrated he was in over his head.

Tyrants Nasser & Farley
Clueless Bill Ford & Hackett.

I know some will ask why I put Mark in the good manager classification. I worked with him at F200. Yeah he came across as arrogant at times. But he was not an id--t. If you watch his transformation when Billy ran the show to when Allan came in. You can see Mark was smart enough to see what a real CEO /Leader was vs. someone in over their head.
People forget Allan stated in a 2013 news conference he was not going to retire until 12/15. So something Billy did forced his to just say its time to go.
Allan was viewed as competent from a line worker to a Investment Banker. His Vison and plan you clearly understood. Plus he was an Engineer.
We focused on the FORD Brand. sold off JAG / VOLVO / Aston Martin / Land Rover.
Now fast forward after Allan we start to buy into very toxic business ventures CHARIOT / ARGO. And my favorite waste of money The Train Station. Bill should get the DARWIN award for that one. Wall St. completely gave him a pass for the dump.
As someone posted the other day in any big corporation or organization you will have things like Friends of the family & Quotas.. etc.. But we also had more competent people to make good decisions. I don't want to come across as a racist or s-xist. because my best boss was a African American female. No she did not get the job because she was black she got the job because she understood the commodity she was responsible for. In addition to that she had the best people skills when it came to managing and motivating people. Sad part she retired a few years ago.
So you see I have no problem with a minority or woman as a boss. Just make sure they are competent and have the right people skills to design and engineer Ford products.

I retired last year. my main reason was the lump sum. But I also lost faith and confidence in the senior management team. Instead of motivating people We have a Ja----s that talks down and acts like Mr. Know It All. So I ran my numbers and left.
If he was in Vietnam he would have been FRAGGED by his own troops.
No KARMA at all. His body language tells you he does not believe his own words. He lost the trust of the employees long ago. Peter DeLorenzo pegged him Long ago.
His accomplishments read like an Empty Shelf. And That is a Fact

@1mzz+1kScGBR2
Not surprising that people don’t know about canopy. Nice idea to try free, but we need 14,000 customers at $6 per month just to pay CM’s million dollar salary.

I don’t know anything about Canopy so I had to look it up. Odd! Not much info on the home page, but they are certainly hiring. Wonder how much market share Ring has in this segment? Could Ford include that feature as a freebie in each new vehicle - say for 6 months?

Or Ford could do what GM is doing to OnStar (I.e. it is an option, but a mandatory one… LOL)

The painful part
Many talemted people were booted out and now with the bell curve many more will in the future
These jokers are not impacted and are still makimg millions in bonuses alone.

DF POCKETED MILLIONS!!!
Hope these corporate looters are first sent home with a fine

That is why’s I think ford’s books are cooked! Who is recommending this stock as an investment? Good luck with that!

This Twitter post was cringe worthy…
“Our lovely team are currently en route to Las Vegas from January 5-8 for the CES convention this year!”

“We’re anticipating our first release in Summer 2023…will be available in limited markets.”

That’s a big problem. Ring has vehicle cameras TODAY, for $6/month.

@hnj+1kScGBR2
Is CM delusional? He's a clown. No one respects him. Canopy was laughed and ridiculed at CES. Something needs to happen and soon. Hey Farley, PLEASE, before you get cut, terminate, fire, separate, special assignment - just get rid of CMoron ASAP!

@vwo+1kScGBR2 it’s unlikely that WSJ or NYT care enough to write about FMC, but maybe Phoebe at the Free Ford Press will write an expose on Ford Next…🤣

@vwo+1kScGBR2
CM has said he expects to replace FLV.

@vwo Thats all well and good, but Bill has his head in the clouds and is incapable of making the right decision. The focus should be on the family pressuring Bill into retiring.

FLV and his cast of clowns are fakes. Mobilize did nothing for Renault and FLV continues the practice at Ford! C MO--N made a career of taking credit for other people's work and IMO will be Louis-Victor's fallguy for the epic fail of Canopy. There's another id--t from HP that FLV hates and needs to be removed. Another talker with nothing to show. Matter of time before WSJ or NYT exposes all the incompetence at Ford, that should wake Bill up.

We could stop wasting Billions of dollars buying companies, then turning them into NOTHING. What have Journey Holding, Quantum Signal AI, Electriphi, Autonomic and Transloc done for us? Then there is “canopy” that was supposed to make a huge impact at the 2023 CES. Search for 2023 CES. Canopy, and this comes up first:

https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/jackery-ces-2023-product-reveals/

Great job of promoting your “product” FLV and CM! It cost a million dollars to help Jackery get publicity.

I wonder how much compensation Doug Field got for 2022?

Whatever it was, 100% of it was unearned.

It speaks the truth. Farley has accomplished nothing in his career, other than manipulating and backstabbing. Anyone who knows how to engineer, design and deliver quality vehicles has been ' separated ' replaced by so-called thinkers and talkers who deliver nothing but decks and ridiculous videos. I worked on trucks for a long time, we knew exactly what our customers want and delivered, it's frustrating to listen to a group of inexperienced pontificators who believe they have all the answers yet run and hide when its time to engineer and deliver. Everyone knows the ' transformation ' talk is BS, it's nothing but a smokescreen to eliminate older workers, I really wish WSJ or NYT would expose Farley so Bill would grow a pair and put someone in charge that really understands Ford and has a clear plan to restore profits. IMO, start with Next, the id--t brought in from Renault doesn't communicate, epic fail, as are his Directors.