Thread regarding Ford layoffs

15 years at GM doesn't count as automotive experience?

Liz Door didn’t leave Whirlpool voluntarily, and the purchasing team and their suppliers were happy to see her go. Their gain is our loss.

@1jki+1mZV80gw You may allow the best plumber to replace the roof of your house, and the best gardener to work in the electricity of your home, but Ford leadership has a fiduciary duty with shareholders. That means the company has to hire the best people with the RIGHT experience.

Unless all that "talent" in management is accepted as the same level of experience as the FCGs, meaning their work is highly supervised and they spend a couple of years in training, we are paying top dollar for inexperienced managers trying to improvise, and failing to accomplish anything.

Keep drinking the Kool Aid. At this point, I don't care anymore where the company hires "talent" from. Just don't try to make it look like an accomplishment, like we are stealing the best players from other companies. When you do that, not only you are showing you're an id--t or a brownnoser, you are implying I am that stupid that cannot see the truth, and an id--t like yourself can pull the wool over my eyes.

The truth is I have my eyes wide open. Anybody coming to work at Ford these days is because they have no better place to be, and if Ford is the best they can get, they suck. Anybody worth their salt would check the company, and the state of the industry, before committing. They'd realize Ford is dying an slow death like Sears'. We are losing money, market share, customers, and the only thing we are number one is recalls.

Sadly, this is very intentional and will continue to be their path forward. I spoke with a higher level HR person who focuses on recruiting and they said that Jimmer doesn't want Model E - and much of the company as a whole - to be lead by 'Old Ford' people.

Also, it seemed clear from the conversation that the highest levels do not see Ford Blue team members being eventually transitioned over to Model E. At least not on a large scale.

A lot of talented people will likely be lost from the fold as a result of this mindset...

Hiring the best from a diverse set if tech companies is how we position Ford to be at the top of the modern mobility sector. Talent does not need to come from just automotive, in fact that would be a terrible plan.

Concur that Mulally was great for Ford. Close association with highly engineered safe and reliable aircraft and auto’s.

Washing machines, not so much.

We're all caught,
in the new normal,
whirlpool running,
down the drain,
of very cunning,
political cost cutting.

@yho+1mZV80gw

I'm aware of Mulally's background and the mess at Whirpool.

I was simply making the point that the broadbrush about "non-auto leadership" was unfair.

@tmc There are still some competent employees left, but you are correct, they will never get the nod because they are truth tellers and not part of the FNF plan. After witnessing SRD, the April and August 22 cuts, they have quietly quit.

Mulally came from a similarly complex engineering background. Automobiles are more similar to Airplanes than appliances.

There have been rumors that Ford was trying to recruit a new CEO from Deere.
It would make much more sense to pull someone from Caterpillar / Deere.

Now go educate yourself on the supply chain debacles that have been going on at Whirlpool.

In all fairness, Alan Mulally (the best thing to happen at Ford in a long time) also came from a non-Automotive background...

Attractiveness and DEI... Is that really what Ford has come to?

What is really sad about this is Ford has no bench. All the layoffs for financial cost, politicking, backstabbing, DEI and friends and family plan has created a void of competent people rising through the ranks. We have to hire from outside, but can’t get people from other vehicle manufacturers (which we are, not a data and subscription company), because they are aware of the family voting shares dragging down the company. The F150 is all we’ve got, the rest is built on quicksand.

But she can help getting brighter whites! She’s easy on the eyes, makes it easier for her to get hired. But she will be mired in the Ford sludge in no time.