There have been many many lay offs and it sounds like a never ending drama.
What is ford motor company target for salaried employees in the united states 10000 ?
Get it done with .
It is very clear that ford motor company is not an american manufacturer anymore...
Quality is bad ...
What Ford management does not understand is when they did leave the united states their customer in the united states did leave to ...
Good luck Ford family
I think Ford will be a small company making 100 k vehicles a year
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I left in 2007 and went to work in China where none of the "engineers" have drivers licenses.
When I came back in 2012, Dearborn was already a dump.
Our government will never get the money back that they loaned these incompetent deadbeats.
Junior is a failure and a crook.
The problem is the that the press never covers the offshoring
A country without engineering and science has no future. This will be the end of the us dominance and its technology.
Offshore for little $$ and lose the whole talent base .
Few greedy NB a's have put the country in a path of no future
Smart move @knu you likely added years to your life!
I ran into an old Ford coworker at Costco, I didn’t even recognize him. He had to tell me who he was. The guy got stuck doing all the work of the 3 who were laid off. He put on a good 80-100 lbs of fat, hair has gone grey and in general looks like cr-p. My heart breaks for the guy, he is marching towards an early grave.
I’m glad I decided to get out after about an year at Ford, right after the major layoffs Ford had last year even though my boss let me know I was safe before the layoff but after the way they laid off people I told to myself it maybe safe now but a year down the line it could be coming around for me!
I worked with teams in Mexico and Brazil and I have to say to Ford is -you get what you pay for!
Im happy Im making same amount with wayyyyy less stress and not to mention significantly better work life balance! Granted not the best benefit wise but I will take it!
With the amount of outsourcing these big 3 doing, in a few years there won’t be much engineers from US will be working.
I will for sure won’t recommend my kids go into engineering. I don’t want them to go through the sh-t I’m going through!
The mix between working with Brazil, China, Mexico, and GES India , all simulataneously, was extremely difficult, to say the least. There is no team culture with this approach. Glad I left last November.
If these multinational companies COULD have offshored their engineering, they would have done it long long ago. I remember back in the 90s that Ford’s Electronics Division tried to move some of its design activity to Chihuahua. They sent loads of equipment and people down there. It was such a disaster that they brought it all back in a couple of years.
There is a real cultural difference between people who grew up in the U.S. and those who grew up in other places. In most of those places, people are conditioned to do EXACTLY what they are told— to do things “right” regardless of what the right thing to do is. If the boss says to bolt a ground strap onto a lug nut, well that’s what they’re going to do. This is one of the big problems with Ford’s engineering today, and no amount of quality and problem solving classes will change that.
What IS going to happen is Ford is going to force out more and more of their native-born engineering staff and get crushed by their competition.
You often hear multinational companies moaning, “We can’t find Americans to do these jobs.” That’s not the full sentence in their heads. The full sentence is, “We can’t find Americans to do these jobs for what we want to pay them.”
Also, almost no job at Ford requires a PhD, few require a master’s degree, and even a bachelor’s degree is overkill. They use these educational requirements to eliminate domestic talent and domestic wages.
28k NA salaried. The target is 27k layoffs. Not all art once but the proof is in the numbers. When you have almost 3 times that number in other countries you see the plan. Fewer NA salaried and more foreign salaried. That's what the is about.
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So ford is still hiring. Remember that if you're cut for a lawsuit
lol @khl given what old henry did approve of, not sure it is quite the statement you think.
ICE Engineering jobs already being sent to Brazil. Brazil screwed up their first program and FNA had to bail them out. They had No idea what they were doing.
Ford just built a nice engineering center in Mexico for next ICE outsourcing.
Pretty soon Dearborn will be a ghost town with all those nice restaurants on Michigan Ave out of business as well.
Never going to buy another Ford. Old Henry would not approve of this.
@OP If you are asking what the end game target for US salaried to still be employed at Ford it is 6000-7000. 2023 is not the end game. Many more cuts to come. There is a 5 year road map with targets for offshoring and outsourcing.
For those of you saying that is not possible, think again. IBM employees said the same. IBM went from majority US engineers to 12% US engineers. Definitely not saying its a good thing, but it is reality.
The target is 8,000 salary heads from USA 🇺🇸.
Deep, Severe cuts then major reorganization in July.
Who knows but after this latest bloodletting I assume there will be many more visitors from Mexico to observe our product testing as our jobs will be drained south of the border.