Thread regarding Ford layoffs

Jim Farley doesn't know what he's doing. He cares so much about useless performance cars that nobody gives a sh-t about. If he put half as much effort into quality, we would be doing so much better. The fact of the matter is no buyer cross-shopping family SUVs cares that their shocks came from the Bronco DR Raptor T1+ Ecoboost GT GTD Dakar Special Edition. They care about whether their Escape is going to last as long as a RAV4 or CRV and the answer is he-l no. Farley has no idea about that since he just gets his new management lease every week and hasn't been in that customer's shoes in decades.

… letting/making workers WFH…

Ford, along with many other companies, were moving towards remote information workers and “hoteling” desk space long before COVID. They saw how much money they could save and how much value the remote work had to employees (i.e willing to accept lower pay in exchange for the convenience and reduction in commuting expenses).

The COVID era exposed the danger of remote workers to commercial real estate landlords, investors and bankers.

The bankers retaliated by pushing the myth (paying for PR, research grants, and politicians) to convince corporate America that the savings they were seeing from not paying rent were not real. “Don’t believe the evidence of your eyes and ears,” so to speak.

I will not be catching up on work outside of work hours. I was more apt to work earlier/later at home since I could get other things done as well. I will no longer be flexible with my time if the company isn’t flexible with me. No more late evening /early morning meetings, emails, or IMs with those in other countries. Core hours will be back for me.

Meanwhile Ford lags in quality... Go ahead lazyasses, work from home until Ford becomes irrelevant!

@av

Easy - you just fire those employees for cause or PIP them. You don't call everyone back to the office. The purpose is to squeeze anyone that will see it as the last straw and make them quite. Indirectly forcing attrition...this is the point.

@av

You would think Ford management and HR would target those partucular employees rather than broad brush the entire workforce.

Oh but no. That would involve thinking and actually putting in effort in their positions. Ford management and HR are actually the most lazy unproductive low intelligence level people of the workforce.

I could come up with a list of low performing termination candidates in my area that would guarantee improvement in Ford bottom line with them gone. GSRs and LLs. But Ford management and HR have no clue other than badge swipe data.

You can blame all the employees that abused their time while working from home. Let the babysitting resume!

I'm working on the software for the badge reader in Jimmy CarCar's racing car.

It definitely won't work.

https://firstthings.com/what-is-the-longhouse/

The emphasis on “feelings” is rooted in a deeper ideology of Safetyism. Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff, in their 2018 book The Coddling of the American Mind, define Safetyism as “a culture or belief system in which safety has become a sacred value, which means that people are unwilling to make trade-offs demanded by other practical and moral concerns.”

While Haidt and Lukianoff focus their analysis on proto-woke novelties like “trigger warnings” and “microaggressions,” the cult of Safetyism is best exemplified in our response to the pandemic. Think of the litany of violations of our basic rights to personal freedom and choice over the last two years that were justified on the basis of harm reduction. The economy, our dying loved ones, our faith practices, our children’s education, all of it served up on the altar of Safetyism. Think of the Covid Karen: Triple-masked. Quad-boosted. Self-confined for months on end. Hyperventilating in panic as she ventures to the grocery store for the first time in a year. Then scolding the rest of us for wanting to send our kids back to school, and demanding instead that we all abide by her hypochondria, on pain of punishment by the bureaucratic state. This person—who is as often male as female—is the avatar of the Longhouse.

The implications of the Longhouse reach yet further across the social landscape. The Longhouse distrusts overt ambition. It censures the drive to assert oneself on the world, to strike out for conquest and expansion.