Those who were laid off by Ford, how did the return of your Ford issued equipment work? Did they ask you to return just the laptop and the phone or also the chair, the monitor and docking stations?
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I kept my phone and number and tossed in an old one I had laying around.. I put a note on the phone that is gets real hot when it is plugged in. Laptop was cleaned and dropped at Fedex. I kept 2 chairs and several monitors and a the plans for the engine that runs on water.
401K was trimmed down to $600K till I am 59 1/2 and the remainder were sent to Vanguard along with the and lump sum (IRA) and contributory (Roth). I am up double my salary since August. I have been getting unemployment since June and am on Cobra till Feb.
The 9 months severance is just about used up but that was due to some major renovations for the house.
Moved out of SE Michigan just before Covid and living in Northern Michigan.
With Covid, WFH, Interest Rates and 9 months severance it was a perfect retirement storm. Selling my house in 2019 was the only hassle...If I would have waited a year I could have got asking plus some. You can't win them all.. Oh ya.. I refinanced the up north place and got a 2.75 % rate.
I did the same!
It was no problem. At the time I just left my company laptop and small monitor in a box sitting on the corner of Oakwood and Rotunda with a note attached. All set.
SIRPd in August and had similar experience as previous poster. I returned the laptop and dock, kept the chair, $250 headset, wireless keyboard and expensive monitor. I sent back a 10 year old monitor and cr-ppy keyboard/mouse I had laying around so Ford had to pay to receive and discard some junk. The phone situation was pretty sad because I had to pay for packaging AND shipping to get it back to Ford. I did totally wipe it clean though before seeing the instructions to leave the Ford stuff on it. As a bonus I got to keep all my office supplies collected through 30 years.
Last August (SIRP) I had to return the company laptop and company phone only. When I called to cancel the company credit card I found that it had already been cancelled - which was funny because I called within an hour of receiving the boot - so they must have cancelled the credit card around the time they limited email abilities on my account ad well.
All else was not required to be returned when I went through the process. Such as chair, monitors, dock, peripherals (mouse keyboard) - including the stuff that I got through the 'points' system (forgot what it was called already lol) but it included a nice jabra bluetooth headphones that I still use.
The laptop return was done well. Oil may least respectfully. I received a qr code for fedex. Fedex scanned it in and gave me a receipt. I handed over the laptop (I returned the briefcase also as it was junk) and fedex packaged it for shipment.
One small detail irritated me - returning the phone - they did not do it the same way as the laptop. I had to personally ensure that it was packaged safely enough to avoid damage. Call it nitpicking, but I felt that after getting canned, I shouldn't be asked to provide a single thing to the company. I happened to have a small box and some bubble wrap, so I didnt lost any sleep over it, but I still thought it was tacky and disrespectful of Ford not to just provide a qr code and then foot the bill for the packaging ad well as shipment...
@cdy+1nSbyKHb Me also. Also recorded cutting up corporate credit card and sent in the scraps; and contacted cc company a month afterwards to make sure the account was still closed. Did not trust the sticky fingered LL5
I suppose i was being overly paranoid but i took pictures of each item including serial numbers before I took them to Kinko's
You all get phones? I’m EXPECTED to use my personal phone for work.
I kept chair. Sent everything else back. Didn't want any excuses not to get severance.
Ford is an evil company. Do not trust them.
Phone, laptop, docking station and one monitor.
I believe only the phone, laptop and docking station. You can keep the Hackett chair.