If Ford mgt doesn't think they have the right talent or skill set. Why don't they just train immediate personnel how to do what they need done? Makes me believe it is 100% about money and not skills. Or they think current employees are untrainable? Or they don't have any employees that can train people. Sad state! Poor management!
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When you have CAD managers like Ryan Hazel who wears the same shirt every day and smells like it what can you expect. Ford CAD is run by clowns who could not run a McDonalds let alone a CAD group.
Some of the former employees let go in 2019 sued Ford claiming they targeted older high performing workers. The case was settled out of court after emails sent from Ford to the consulting firm (that would decide who got fired) were discovered. According to the Free Press the email contained instructions for the algorithm used to identify the target group. They were asked to target employees who would provide the largest long term savings and they looked at age, salary and hire date, which could be used to determine pension status, to determine savings. It’s telling that they didn’t include data about performance or skills. It’s wasn’t about performance or the value added by an employee, it was about how much the employee cost then and into the future.
One thing Ford management don't understand is Suppliers don't care if the part you outsource to them works or not. They make more money with design changes. Doing the work in house Engineering and CAD design is really the only why to improve anything.
Supplier will lie to you and lead you down the wrong path to get paid. They don't care if you dely a launch. or have poor qaulity, They are playing the game to the rules Ford made.
This is happening across multiple groups and will continue for the next several years. The trouble is that these Full-Service suppliers are sending work offshore as well.
The joke is on Ford since the losses are not from the salaried work force, it is from the out-of-control warranty/quality and UAW demands/inefficacy.
I m software generalist who got cut today. I see many positions in Dearborn and remote that I can easily fit in. Even my team has two open positions to fill in. Also, I m in my early 30s. So it’s not about retraining or skills not needed who got cut. Same has been happening in the last 5 years within Ford .
It's all about the money, and whoever thinks differently they are not only wrong but d-mb as a bag of rocks. It's sad to see what has happened at Ford. A once strong CAD design group has been decimated with the following plan.
- Give suppliers 75% of the CAD design work.
- Give 25% CAD design work to India and Mexico.
- Send the in house CAD designers to the curb.
The main objective of almost all layoffs is to purge out the highly paid, older workers. They also let a number of younger workers go to avoid age discrimination lawsuits. Has nothing to do with skill, or capability, or performance. It's purely money.
I've got a PhD in power electronics EMC with 36 years of experience in automotive electronics design, yet the EV department didn't feel like my "skills" were sufficient.
Or maybe it's that I'm 59 and white and a U.S. citizen.
It's just an excuse. The Company would rather pay a newbie low $$ than to retrain a current employee. It's all about the $$.