Thread regarding Ford layoffs

If airplanes were subject to recalls you can bet in a New York (I can’t stand New Yorkers. They are like locus and infect where ever they go) minute when Boeing was subject to train wreck Dave Calhoun wisdom Boeing would have been deep six in less than 3 months after Dave took over leading Boeing.

Dave Calhoun is absolutely the guy who Ford leadership should hire to lead Ford. After that I’d count the days before Ford announced they were going into receivership.
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Why is Dave Calhoun even mentioned here? He is was a failure. He would fail in the mobility market even more so if working for Ford.

We had the best mobility leader in the business but allowed him to leave the company earlier this year. A far superior to Calhoun in every respect, in every way, and completely.

Ford made its biggest mistake in history letting him retire.

Have you ever run into Next Gen transmission components, these guy are making fixes for all these issues on Ford and GM transmissions. Their fix seems to be deletion of vibration dampers from the valve body. If these transmissions are truly fixed this makes one wonder why these items were in the transmission in the first place.

Calhoun was trained as an accountant and has no engineering background. However, he has a lot of experience in obtaining government contracts from his time at GE and Boeing. As we all know from the constant power points we are now focusing on ”Industrial” (aka military government vehicles) as consumers are rapidly turning away from overpriced trucks and SUVs. Ford was recently awarded government contracts to build tactical trucks. I hope we don’t F it up. It is an opportunity to do true innovation and engineering instead of bolting together the slop from the parts closet. The problem is all the experienced engineers were ushered out the door by professor Hackett and Farley carried on the tradition. Wait didn’t Boeing do the same thing leading up to its public failures?

Today Boeing bragged that they will have to build a lot of planes due to recent big orders.
The company now only employs Yes man/women, Bean Counters and DEI hires and few experienced engineers who have worked on several new airplane programs throughout their careers at Boeing. Boeing forced out all the older guys who had demonstrated experience. Now Boeing is only a skeleton of the company they were 30 years ago. Boeing has a lot of planes to build which will account fora lot of expensive late fees for missing delivery dates. What can ever go wrong with that picture.

I left Boeing 10 years ago when Boeing leadership, who's made up of DEI hires decided to make a DEI hire a manager of the structural design group I was working in. I heard after I left the company, they replaced the DEI hire with a young engineer who was just as clueless with limited experience.

Welcome to the swirling toilet bowl.

He turned Ford into Boeing