Small cuts are happening all the time, but they're not talked about. The big rounds are announced, the small ones are kept quiet so to avoid panic. We're never layoff-free at Ford.
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Update - contacted by People Matters today out of the blue, anyone want to take bets on whether or not they'll take any action?
@13t the managers are the problem, the layers of management and HR that knew of this and did nothing to stop it is astounding. Harassment training warns you the reason you do what you’re supposed to is because if you don’t it can embarrass the company. That’s what you’re seeing here.
Do they not manage employees at ford? It seems like a free-for-all.
Sunday Scaries!
@k1 My experience is that https://www.pittlawpc.com/ is a division of Ford that helps you negotiate with HR. You will get their attention if you are a protected minority.
@m6
I had good luck with the law firm recommended by @k1+1m6m8tyyn.
I'm choosing peace at this point. I have been working with a lawyer, but I'm not sure I want to go that route. People are animals. Every time I see a mean dog I think to myself, poor thing must have been abused, why should people be different.
This whole thing was insanity, inexperienced s-xist "managers" calling themselves directors, vindictiveness, homophobic, and perverted people. Maybe they were abused, came from sh---y families, who knows. Ford is toxic, HR shouldn't enable this, that should have been the backstop.
@kq When companies and people fail to follow the basic rules of employment law, workplace fairness and human dignity, they deserve to be shamed.
@hs genuinely impressed this didn’t get wiped with the inclusion of real names holy sh-t
@j0 https://www.pittlawpc.com/megan-bonanni
@as no, i was told i was laid off with a 5 minute meeting. 11/12/24
Their LL2/3 is Val, a real piece of work.
@hz Nope, embarrassment will continue, I'll find additional venues though.
@hs can you stop with this already? Get a lawyer if you've got a case.
You're as bad as the model e propaganda guy.
@gs The LL4s during this were Cristina Aquin o and Tim Son-Hing. Tim was the one who seemed to enjoy the urinal stuff. Why else would he encourage others as well? Cristina is a divorced "DEI Champion" who seems to love walking around and saying, "I Protect My Girls," while giving the shittiest looks to men. She also seemed to enjoy joking about the situation. Well, I bet that guy's happy he's rotating.
Kacie Theisen, LL6, is the woman who was probably going through something. She goes by "Medusa" and "Mary" on this site occasionally, I believe.
The group was APPR Marketing (Cristina/Kacie) and the Volumes group, which at that time was part of Marketing (Tim Son-Hing). Matt Gladd, now in Corporate Finance, was my LL5.
Rita Lucaj was the HR Supervisor and seemed to be BFFs with Cristina. I went to an old group's HR manager, who did nothing, I suspect so as not to rock the boat and further jeopardize my employment, I suppose. She announced her retirement, and my last bosses started telling me I wouldn't likely have a job in my new group (still under Corporate Finance, whose LL2 is Jason Alt).
I'll leave my last LL5/4 off because they were honestly d-mbfounded by why Jason would give this direction and didn't seem to know the context I had.
Rita also left, so I informed her new employer of the situation to ensure she couldn't do it again.
You might think I'm crazy for posting here, but all these folks are Googleable, and what I'm saying is what honestly happened to me.
The company and the people involved should be embarrassed by what they did. Ford truly felt like a family company way back; now it is anything but. Look them up, stop by, give them a dirty look—please do. They're in the Old PDC, WHQ South now?
At a minimum, they know I'm a reasonable person. An apology would have been great. At minimum, they could have stopped the harassment.
@ff if you want ideas, just post it on Twitter with evidence, the dems are back in control again, cancel culture and woke are coming back in power (cancel culture mostly never left), you have MASSIVE power in today’s society as a gy man, your word is more gospel than Jesus and that’s not even hyperbolic. Or do it on the reddit confessions subreddit with omitted details. Either way, you’re slightly outing yourself too, but realistically the victim is a hugely protected minority, and usually the mob acts immediately regardless. People live off of this stuff.
Not to mention a lot of the other stuff, you ever walk in every day to be told repeatedly your performance is great, but you’ll be fired? How about your performance review is out of my hands, it won’t be good, but your performance is great? How about being told, “you’re on the chopper”.
Or maybe had a woman “monitor” for months on end after having you followed into the bathroom by your management?
Excluded from team events they know you enjoy.
What about that woman dress up scantily, then walk by and give you a nasty look and then run to your bosses to “report it”?
What about being followed through the office by the same woman you complained was troubling you and hearing HR was allowing it?
How about after all that being badgered about what’s going on with your health? only to use it to belittle you and minimize your complaints? Told you will sit there and be monitored, no you cannot move to another floor or building?
How about after moving to another group having the same woman repeatedly show up at your new workplace?
How about her showing up at your house at odd hours to have a peek?
Writes you a love poem and threatens the company only to still continue to follow you around the office? All the while, zero accountability for this woman.
I once loved this company, spent almost two decades here being as good to people and employees as possible, so yes it's emotional for me.
Judging by some of the things i've seen written (aside from the kid, some of the weird posts on here over the last year were us), she was probably going through something.
But when you hear your LL4 on the phone with health and safety trying to have you followed in the office (including the bathroom). Hearing g-y jokes in the office repeatedly. Telling your team you're just nice because... who knows what (really just trying to protect my reputation). And being followed into the bathroom and watched at the urinal (and her making pe--s comments on here) what's a dude to think?
This really happened on the 9th floor of world headquarters (east side) between mid 2024 spanning to early 2026, managed by people who tout themselves as "DEI Champions" (she even got an award from the company).
@as
They fabricate poor performance reviews and use it as justification to terminate people for "cause", not requiring any Warn reporting. It's happening all over the company to people still under the pension plan who are just shy of retirement eligibility. It's very stealth and shady. Hope you don't fall into this category or you could be next.
I've noticed more and more employees, who don't yet have 30 years suddenly elect to retire. Are they being offered a package?
Your full of it.
Ford or any other company with greater than 50 employees has to issues a 60-day notice, called a Warn to anyone they want to layoff. Ford also is required to report to the State Department of Labor how many Warns were issued and what date as well as the effective layoff date.
What Ford or any other companies do not need to report is firings.