Ford Leadership warns The Ford Motor Company is at risk of continued existence and is rapidly moving the Company forward for survival. Leadership announced every Ford employee must report to their assigned office five days a week starting in the second week of January, no acceptations will be approved. Leadership has identified 25,000 Slackers who were recently warned by email that they are at a threat of being issued Performance Improvement Plans during the second week of January. The odds are 9 out of 10 of these 25,000 Slackers will flunk their Performance Improvement Plans or refuse to even accept them and will be summary fired and unemployment benefits will be denied.
The goofing off from home days, while on the Ford clock are officially over.
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@OP Wow So you do not question a BOD and senior management for losing over $19bn? I guess you missed that part. Surprised how little you knowledge of the business really you know. You have a clown CEO who makes it public he is not happy with the talent.. Yet he has yet to prove to anyone he is even qualified to use crayons for a coloring book. Since 09 when BOZO hired in .. what has he done? because any good LEADER motivates the troops .. Provides a realistic vision and a plan on how to get there. Instead we have SESAME STREET. You seem to forget.. the lower ranks did not get caught up in all this EV hype. Bill (TRUST FUND BABY) Ford, Jim (Art Van) Hackett, and Jim (Mr Know it all) Farley did. Instead of taking responsibility for their actions they deflect blame. JF is a disgrace as a human and a CEO. We refuse to call them leaders since they have not demonstrated the very values of a true leadership. Glad I sold all my stock. They destroyed that company..
Until Ford leadership(?) acknowledges that "they" are the BIGGEST contributor to continued but preventable FAILURE, it will continue to be SOSDD. Same old..... Those who are no longer on payroll are NOT the cause of PERPETUAL FAILURE. DUH!
Shhhh. Don't let the word get out.
@y4 They plant stuff on you after ford too, if you're skilled and a risk. They try to compromise you even if you didn't do anything. And in general if you're gifted and talented, but you went what they call "going rogue" as a kid meaning you're not following the script as a little kid, they try to compromise you far before even hitting puberty they pad your history without you even knowing or realizing to compromise or control you later. Complete lies
They try to destroy your health and try to get you in risky scenarios and situations here in Michigan, you could be 22 23 20 21 doesn't fu--ing matter. They start early. Believe me or don't.
They plant stuff on you. Do not trust anyone in michigan. They get in super early. Those mentors and people you think you can trust try to compromise you. College is a place for degeneracy and anything you think of living in the moment has people in the shadows trying to compromise you. They have plants. In Ford and after Ford. They try to get you compromised, whatever morals or values you hold. Even if things aren't true. They try to get you even before you hit puberty and you have no idea. They infiltrate things you care about and destroy it like hobbies or passions through manipulation and they try to also compromise and get you to react through there too. Michigan is not what you think. They try to control you.
@vq Life of people taking advantage of people who had real output but were insulated by internal friends and hr
Now instead of goofing off at home, you can come into the office and goof off instead! Come in at 8ish, take an hour cr-p, go get coffee from the cafe, and breakfast, catch up with your buddies about the night before, Take a 2 hr lunch, walk laps around the building for an hour, go get a pop at the cafe, maybe squeeze in a 30 min nap in your vehicle, then go home at 4. Yay Ford!
@hh It’s been this way since Jac Nassar’s “Lead or leave,” “don’t be a mere functionary,” “perception is everything,” “I only want people with an immigration story,” etc. Some say Ford’s board wanted a Tower of Babel because the workers were too good and didn’t need them anymore. Some say it was hubris, the Board thought making cars was easy and so they decided to make cars and save the world. Some say it was the lure of labor arbitrage, which seems to be a shadow industry from top to bottom at Ford. Whatever the reason for eliminating talent at Ford, the fact that Ford thought they could sell a $110,000 F150 profitably shows that it has been effective.
Some people think its best not to sign the PIP if you get one. Usually the terms of a PIP weaken an employee’s statutory legal protections, that’s why the Company uses them. You shouldn’t sign one without consulting an attorney. In any event, these layoffs aren’t about job performance, they are about the failure of the EV program. Mass layoffs are usually the fault of management.
Monitoring door badge swipe times isn’t the only thing Ford management is doing with next week’s five day return to the office. Ford HR had security install webcams throughout offices to closely monitor office workers.
No the real question is - Do you care? If you are a reasonably performing employee and still get put on a PIP which more than half the time you don't have control over, then are you prepared? Are you having one foot in and one foot out (always looking for another job no matter how good things are going)? Then if you get put on a PIP here is what you do: You functionally stop working and really do barely just enough to not get dismissed in between your check in's. You should have been looking and networking constantly before in good times, but you'd really need to start doing that now.
I think it's funny - prepared individuals who have taken the correct precautions. It would be almost entertaining to get put on one and watch the pearl clutching as it was treated like it was no big deal. No fear, but maybe actual permission to let go of responsibility and give one last middle finger on your way out. It would be F this $hit o'clock for me I can say that for sure.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! RESOLUTION: Give companies what they want. Metallica lyrics. Care what you say you may regret it. Careful what you we wish for you might just get it. SO, when interviewing, I suggest asking what % of current employees in YOUR job classification are H1B. If they use H1B, look elsewhere. The you understand their position on employee price versus employee performance/experiential knowledge/manufacturing WISDOM. If they want cheap and want to reinvent the wheel and relive all of the developmental pitfalls, cost overruns and system failures by all means let them. Think of it as you acting to help them build character. They can use AI. If that's what they want, don't disappoint!
Out of the 25,000 Slackers that are going to get their Performance Improvement Plan this month. Approximately 1%, or 250 will barely pass. The big question is if you pass does that mean you keep your job? Or, are Performance Improvement Plans, whether you pass or not, really advanced Pink slips in disguise?
PIPs are death notices. Always have been. Just another way to avoid the WARN act with forever layoffs and sneaky tactics.
@h3 Hiring, promoting, managing, and leading are the main threats. The people who care about the house themselves and not clout chasing should be concerned by how they treat talent and the relationships they hold. That old school mindset is OUT OF STYLE, and you embarrass your entrepreneurial partners with that arrogant attitude. Hiring = disrespects talent and tries to pull one over - manager = disrespects talent and tries to pull one over - HR = disrespects talent and tries to pull one over - Advisor = kompromat for control of talent - Skip level = complicit - Tech Anchor = Rent seeking - Committee = ARROGANT
@h3 The issue is the hiring, and the people in HR, and leadership. They are not concerned about this company, it's the truth. Whoever cares about the company itself, should watch their house. It's a grift that has been proven, why do you think there are attempts to silence people
@h3 If it does happen, too little, too late. Enjoy the high performing H1Bs you got at bargain prices. Ford Elevator Company. "GOING DOWN"!
Ford needs to have a better HR department that actually do the proper job of hiring qualified workers. One should not be hired by who they know with in Ford. This how Ford has been hiring people and promoting people. Unqualified people will bring down the company.
@gw you must be new to the site. There’s no real dialogue here.
Having Ford on your resume wont hurt you. Having Ford on your resume for more than 4-5 years will though. Means you chose to play it safe and were too afraid to branch out. There's a dead end at the company you'll hit eventually. Staying there more than 4-5 years is simply wasting valuble career time. Look at the absolute slop they are putting on these vehicles. At some point you have to say there has to be some better way to spend my time. Always be looking for another job. The pure insanity of sloppy code that is being pushed cannot be sustained. Layoffs are what happens when executives make mistakes. Big enough mistakes to layoff people. Ford is quickly becoming a wasteland for discarded tech bro's who have been let go and have to settle. Not a good plan to stake the future of your company on. By the summer of '26 we're going to see how this pans out. Have a plan for yourself before that time...would be wise to make sure it doesnt include Ford in your future. I think we can all agree they'll be fine digging thier hole deeper without us. Don't ride the plane down with them.
I think slackers pre covid that were in office are precisely or a big part of the reason we are here shattering recall records. Anyone dispute that? Of course the leadership is mostly at fault. Milk toast leadership without conviction. Bland, impotent, cowardly, with a little greed to top it off.
HR post to play around here. Ford never evaluated the performance properly. One LL5 can destroy the whole team after leaving the company. Garbage talks. Engineers have no value to Ford, the only value Ford gets is recalls and delay because previous engineers were axed for no f. reason.
@e1 So, where are the huge profits and soaring sales figures if your statement has ANY merit? Well?
@ce As long as you spell "share" B-A-G.
Was this written by Model E or a UAW member?
@en Leadership electing themselves for this takes courage. I hope it is true, it would be good for the sole.
@eg it’s a BS rumor at this point
It's apparent from the posts here, that the Slackers are in panic mode. They know they have previously been identified and will be hand a performance improvement plan next week to sign. This is long overdue at Ford.
@OP where did you get your information? I heard nothing of 5 day RTO.
@ec Do not be confused - it's white.
@e1, You have something brown on your nose.
@e1 They may be expensive, but they care, and you cannot put a price on that.
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Could not agree more. Thanks for posting. The ground level employee ranks often criticize executive leadership for their compensation packages, yet fail to realize the executive leaders do the most and most important work in the company and by far take on the most risk. We need to support leadership in 2026 to ensure we become the benchmark mobility company.
@dc huh?
Acceptations? Are you on of the ones getting laid off?
@cr Also pathetic.
Ford engineers, GSR, LL4 to LL6 are mostly non value added employees. 50% of these employees are there just for the paycheck. They do nothing all day, except surfing the internet. From upper management to GSR, they have no work assignments, just keep doing what you are doing, great job. I know many of these people, and they are all pretenders. Ford needs to dig deeper into the employees performance and start letting go those who are not performing.