Thread regarding Ford layoffs

Any update on who did it?

@n9
Seems very unlikely. They would have used a different word.

@n9 Austin or RTO?

My friend told me that some IT agency person was fired in Chennai over this incident.

@kh This is why I come here...

@jy Douglas "Dougie" Powers, commonly known as Dr. Evil, is a fictional character portrayed by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers film series. He is the main antagonist and Austin Powers' nemesis. He is a parody of James Bond villains, primarily Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

Someone made an account in the employee directory for them, with a profile picture and all. And it was there for a season, interns are here for a brief period. Regarding the grooming mention, in the third film, Dr. Evil reveals he has three te------s when a meteor globe hits him in the cr---h. Dr. Evil tries to further his goals which tend to shift between global domination and global destruction fairly frequently.

The comment made was that the execs are doing that already through downwards communication via PowerPoint. Dr.Evil, described himself as a "hands off" type of genius meaning he prefers others to do the manual work for him. Those others, he would like, are deaf and blind so they cannot see the good guys coming. He feels he doesn't need an adversary; he could be better off just winning. Therefore, he is his own worst enemy. Look up who Mike Powers (the actor) looks like.

While Austin is busy in 1975, Dr. Evil does a rendition of "Hard Knock Life" along with Mini-Me in order to convince the other inmates to create a distraction so he can escape prison.

After his escape, Dr. Evil makes contact with Goldmember, who has come to the future with Austin Power's father, Nigel Powers, and they worked together on the Preparation H Project. It is during this time that his son Scott embraces becoming evil to the point that he starts losing his hair, and he is won over by Scott presenting him with what he always wanted: "Frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads." The now-shunned Mini-Me leaves, and later defects to Austin's side.

During the climax of the film, Nigel Powers steps in to protect Dr. Evil from Austin Powers, and finally reveals the truth that Doctor Evil is also his son, and Austin and Douglas are twin brothers. Touched by this, Doctor Evil decides to abandon the plan and turn good, much to Scott's dismay and anger and turning evil. Look up who Scott Evil looks like.

Can someone elaborate the Dr.Evil story? Guess I might not have been around for that

Thank you to whoever did that to the screens. The amount of hours spent sitting in traffic, the fuel used, the people who get in accidents on the way to work they wouldn't have otherwise, all because management wanted to feel some power. We went through one of the worst periods in all of our lives to earn the right to work remotely. But we proved it could be done successfully, during a very stressful time for all of us. And now they want to take it away because... Why???

@gf The reason he left was because he was tired of being surrounded by freakin id--ts.

@gc Dr. Evil did intern here for a quarter, but left after realizing our execs had already perfected world domination via PowerPoint. At least he walked away with a passion for quarterly bonuses and a smooth scrotal grooming routine.

This hack might just be even better than the prank years ago that lasted actually for a long time when Dr. Evil had a ID and profile in cds. Even with his picture

@e6: Do you know which product they use?
Usually anyone with Admin access will be able to change the display.

Perp was likely H1B, more reason to stop hiring H1B's Jim.

I’m guessing the perp may not get caught. Probably used a laptop that didn’t have screen locked while owner was in the c*#pper.

@c4 can someone from IT explain how easy this was? I googled the device info and it appears to be easy to do as long as there is an admin account. The person must have used a generic ID or an ID of another person with access as not to get caught.

@bx If a person knows how to do this, I think they would know how not to get caught!

At the last town hall a prominent leader stated when asked what he thought the culture at Ford was like, he said something to the effect of “We’re too nice to each other. We need to argue more”. That goes along with radical candor.

That radical enough for ‘ya?

@ba the “social media” referred to is THIS SITE. They all read it.

If he/she starts a go fund me, many of us for sure will be happy to start funding it.

Pretty amazing. Shouldn’t be too hard to find the person who did this because they’re clearly in IT. Which narrows it down. The big tell is that they know how to accomplish something, so they must be in the 99.99 percentile of competent ford employees. Disqualifying anyone LL suspects.

The general public needs to know more about the insanity and toxicity happening at this company thanks to Farley. The fact is badges are being checked daily, People Leaders using daily trackers of their direct reports, wi-fi access is being monitored, whacked out smart goal objectives, and I could on.

F'ing awesome.

If you're gonna pull a stunt like this, you'd think you'd know getting caught means you're out the door. But hey, guess at Ford they have a strict 'no F-bombs' policy—guess that's the only thing that's getting fired around here.

@bd I have seen a few folks being called by their LL3/4 to explain why they failed to go office regularly. But no consequences so far

@b4 for real? what is the meeting about?

Chris' little joke from the heavens. Thanks for keeping the levity!

Anyone else notice they pulled the last town hall offline? Typical. These executives don’t have the backbone to face a little criticism. Funny how radical candor only seems to flow top-down. The moment someone calls them out, it vanishes. Hypocrisy at its finest.

@ba Has anyone been fired for not complying to RTO?

Look at this lie from the "ford spokesman" that was on the free press article about the hack:

"One comment on social media said that Farley authorized firing people who have not met their in-office targets due to holiday or sick time, which Truby said is absolutely not true."

I can’t really blame people for being upset; it's less about the office itself and more about the realization that your coworkers are a bunch of weirdos.

This person is AWESOME. Hey Farley, why don't you tell us again how your employees don't have the necessary skills for Ford's future..... Hmmmm Power to the People!

Farley called an emergency meeting to reverse the RTO policy, all due to this brilliant hack.

LOL it’s on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/remotework/s/qqdC7vVE5l

@ak is that true? Effff

https://www.theautopian.com/fk-rto-someone-hacked-the-screens-at-ford-headquarters-to-protest-return-to-work-policy/

They know who did it. They are being canned this afternoon. This is a violation of our technology security policy so it's an at-fault termination. They will lose everything. Hope it was worth it.

This is brilliant! Thank you!
Whoever did this must be very talented. Don’t have to worry about finding the next job!

Someone hacked the screens in protest of Ford’s RTO policy.
In punishment for this insolence, Ford has mandated that RTO will now be for five days per week.
So thanks to whomever it was that hacked these screens. Now we have to come into this he-l hole for yet another day every week.

The displays at PDC had them this morning too. Similarly the displays are all turned off now.

Any word on what leadership is saying?

DDL has it disabled as well.