Do you think these past few years, this company has been in a bad storm? Like karma? Or evil eye?
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I'll keep this brief as 34 year retiree. Company success is driven by caring people leading people with the right strategy that adjusts as needed. Over the years, we always found a way to rebound stronger until... For me, the pivotal change was Smart Redesign in 2019. We said goodbye to friends who had decades of relationships, knowledge and held the core values of the culture at the center and passed this on to the next generation of leaders. What followed was bad business decisions (i.e. no sedans and going all-in on EVs) and more layoffs/terminations of experienced talent, replaced with people outside the industry who knew nothing about the business or culture. Not to mention our poor quality, surely to be a case study in business schools. The soul of the company has been destroyed and I'm not sure it will ever recover.
I love how the company touts sales numbers! 🤣
Sales mean nothing if you aren't making money on the sales. Our margins are cr-p! Investors know this and are bailing. We can't get increases in sales without extending employee pricing to everyone.
They trumpeted increased sales in May and June, but then blamed the fact that we lost money on tariffs (yeah right!) and recalls (didn't help!).
The problem is a perfect storm: cr-p quality, overpriced garbage vehicles, bad union contract (almost doubled labor costs), stiff competition, terrible management, and the real talent has been replaced by mo--ns who couldn't engineer or design their way out of a wet paper bag.
Rip to the Ford. I knew when they hired Fields and Purdy that the company was sc--wed. The company took their eye off what was most important, and started changing bright, shiny objects.
@dv 2nd Rule of Holes at Ford: Promote more A-HOLES!
@f9 first time?
“Any day now” has been going on for the past decade. They’ve upped their shenanigans to human trafficking vulnerable new grads that are invisible minorities without a social safety net. Officials don’t care because they have no voting power for them to curry favor (protection) to.. you must be living in another state if you believe “justice” will come
So far it has been GSRs paying the price for our leadership’s stupid decisions. Layoffs every year followed by increased workload. The LLs will get their due, just a matter of time.
@d3 so Ford isn’t part of the big three anymore?
God, I hope so! Ford management deserves all of the karma that they have coming their way.
More like bad decision after bad decision. First Rule of Holes: When in a hole, stop digging.
Ford lost the #2 U.S. sales rank to Toyota in 2021 and has not regained it. Ford’s U.S. vehicle sales remain approximately 20–25% below 2018 levels. Globally, Ford no longer ranks among the top two automakers by revenue or production volume, as Toyota and Volkswagen dominate the top positions.
With such management whag do you think, rule the world with ev"s
First lets learn to fix the backup cameras
Nope. Just plain old HISTORICAL stupidity and incompetence.
Real unemployment is already over 20%, but mainstream U.S. media won’t report it. As long as you still have a job, you’re unlikely to question the official narrative or revisit the quietly revised data from six months ago. ( 3d revisions instead positive 200k is minus 120k ) Brainwashing with clowns in charge - republicans or democrats - never on people's side.
Young PhD filed 3 VDRs on battery defect; production went ahead (all lights green); NHTSA recall followed in 2022.
Ford supports >1,800 Tier-1/2 suppliers in Michigan. A Chapter 11 filing could spike state unemployment by 6–8% and stress public pension systems. We depend too much on them for karma to really happen when deserved. That’s why the state is in a planned economy. I saw a comment on another thread that said that they’re too big to fall. It’s partially true, a controlled collapse could happen for mitigation
If Ford continues to prioritize politically motivated products over what consumers actually want, they risk undermining their success and future viability.
Greed led Ford to China where Ford agreed to work as a minority partner to produce and sell cars in the Chinese market. China studied everything Ford, and other American OEM's did, improved on it, and now, China is poised to put a major hurting on all American domestic OEM's when they decide to sell here in the U.S. I hope in the end everyone thinks it was worth it.
@ab The Elite Colleges produce box tickers and test takers now. Asians will be underpaid because they are cheap labor and they fit the role of a text taker and box ticker. This is ki-ling the country. You are producing terrible elites who don't know anything except from ticking a box. Of course you have some mis-hits. Oops.
Pay back is coming, Chinese EVs will completely destroy them, no ordinary person can afford there price points, scam will crash soon
@aa The thousand year old Chinese imperial examination system is probably one of the main factors which held Chinese society back for so long.
It basically created an insular society of compliant administrators who couldn’t really innovate or take risks.
On the note of bubble pencilers, I recommend Bullsh-t Jobs by David Graeber and Makers and Takers by Rana Foroohar
You’ll see a resemblance of our HR here. You also might take note of the hiring process at Ford Motor Company. People who can’t do the job are hiring those that can/cant. It’s all a confidence game. Don’t get me started on the negotiation process. Tiger in mouth.
Yes, we got very good at penciling-in bubbles. The problem is that real life is more complex than penciling-in bubbles and we’re entirely incapable of competing against pro-meritocracy without rigging the game: stealing IP, slave-labor, flooding companies that were already built (like FMC), etc.
Karma yes amen.
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