I'm new here but it's already clear to me that the main tool Ford managers are using is fear. Was it always like this? I hope not, because if it was, I don't know how so many of you have stayed here for as long as you have. I'll be honest, when somebody yells at me and threatens my job, my first instinct is to leave, not to do a better job.
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Office Space references - LOL
Instilling fear in underlingsis is done in order to cover up the shortcomings of the person instilling the fear, namely management. There are too many people at Ford that should never be in a position of authority. Quite often they don't know anything about the areas they are in charge of, so they have to bully the people below them so no one can see how incompetent they really are. Quite often positions are filled just to check the box...
Bill Belichick is out of a job due to consistent poor performance. Coach can't win a game, players do. He got rid of his best player.
Harry Bennett would be proud !
It used to be fearless as long as an employee positively contributes to the success of the products.
You guys never would survive coaching like Bill Belichick. He is hard on the players and values the business over the individual. But he leads them to victory.
Ford Motor Company is the exact same way.
You all should look at it from that perspective. You are being treated harshly, but since when do your personal feelings matter, anyway?
And you're building segment-leading vehicles. It's a win!
I wouldn't say I'm missing it, Bob!
Being hassled is actually most of the time more of a motivator than losing my job is.....If I ever get to the point where losing my job is actually a higher risk, I'll be looking anyway.
That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
Absolutely. 20 years ago we had a seperate Car and Truck division. I worked in Car, it was almost like a second family. Truck absorbed Car in the mid-2000s. A lot of management and many GSRs from Car were soon let go. The management/executive structure we now have is hostile, and a joke. My theory is that Truck was always flush with cash, back when we had no competition, and could therefore act however they wanted. Now, not so much.
FMC was known in the past to hire highly paid consultants to figure out what our problems are. Sometimes those highly paid consultants would indicate Ford management as the problem, get paid, and sent on their way.
The lack of positive change tells you something. If you're young, get out whole you can before your talent is wasted here.
@bcu+1rPSMu77 don’t forget the poles in krakow.
Meanwhile Ford is building and designing unreliable c-r-a-p-p-y vehicles loaded with defects
West Dearborn is a ghost town because many of us still work from home most of the time. I go in one afternoon every second week.
West Dearborn is turning into a ghost town. With job cuts and outsourcing to Brazil, Mexico, India, to pay for the EVs.
But Billy Bob has his billion dollar train station.
This is spot on. And it comes down directly from upper-management.
In my experience it's gotten really bad under Farley. Maybe I was naive before, or lucky that I worked with good managers, but OP is right. The constant layoffs coupled with little to no acknowledgements just makes things awful.
And to the trolls who claim OP and @omm are lying: get bent.
The culture is passive aggressive cronyism. Leaders would rather railroad your career than coach you on how to negotiate this game of mousetrap they created. People who don’t want to make a difference are the ones who advance. In addition to other metrics…
@omm, you’ve upvoted your own comment 9 times.
@ztx .... and there you go people. A troll or example 1 of abusive Ford people. People to them are like they noted "cows". Their self righteous narcissisism prevents them from behaving light a human being. That's some textbook Ford+ behaviors for you.
if you are in your 20's or even 30's with no solid connections DO NOT WORK for the big auto companies. they are all run by jokers.
@omm, weak people like you deserve how you get treated, you rely on someone else to save your money in a pension because you can’t manage it yourself. You would get shuffled around like a cow in any place you work. Nothing to do with Ford (which I really don’t believe your work for).
Been at Ford for over 20 years and it is absolutely the culture / tool. This is also another reason they want people back in the office. They exert control through constant threats by never ending layoffs, skewed PRs...you name it. The Ford family and BOD like it this way as you can clearly see by the type of Sr. Leadership they put in place. The most abusive of the abusive are who they seek. I am here due to the pension. I should of left years ago but I didn't, because I thought it meant something. Call it training from the old days that it was something to be valued. Now in these last year's it is a jail sentence that I just look to make it through another day. I am a manager that has always looked to protect my people, so I always have a target on my back since I refuse to play the game. It has also led to my inability to rise higher where I had hoped to change things. Sadly, the culture will never change as the Fords own the company, and this is who they are.
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