Ford SpeakUp - HR is not your friend but how does Ford actually use this tool? Any good/bad experiences?

“Farley: Rivals 'ahead of us' on diversity” Customers: Rivals ahead of Ford on QUALITY. Fix this misplaced concern, and we might fix the recall cost issue.

https://youtu.be/z2HneqfZGsM https://youtu.be/ptI6BRVC1Kw

From Consumer Reports: The top five brands are Toyota, Lexus, BMW, Mazda and Honda. Lincoln moved up 14 spots to No. 10. Ford placed at No. 18, down four spots from last year. Sad, this is the best Ford Motor Company can do after over 100 years of... — read more 

My group has 2 LL5 & 2 GSR. How top heavy is your group?

With GM going back in January, what will the expectation be moving forward?

There's a big problem in the auto industry that isn't talked about enough... The residual values of their cars are very important to the huge financing departments of auto OEMs... For example, GM and Ford have financing debts of $94 billion and $118... — read more 

Ford is all in on EV's so they need to get rid of a massive amount of employees in ICE associated groups. Don't spend money on what you don't need.

Looks too good to be true. It sure is. This company can't survive for long.

How about we rank our leaders like they rank us. And their salary is based on the ranking we give them. And when headcount reduction time comes, we know who to get rid of.

I heard bonus is now based on profit based on what group you are in. Ford blue will get most if not all bonus as the profit source. Model e will not get bonus and may owe as they do not provide profit and have a loss for profit.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/fords-ev-guru-field-talks-bottlenecks-opportunities-2022-11-07/

Hat tip to @1ror+1jnRzxtX from this post: https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jnRzxtX "Mullally: A. This is our goal B. This is our plan to reach that goal C. This is how we will execute that plan. Hackett: When I was a little boy, I got a little red wagon... — read more 

Managers & supervisors are tasked with giving out "poor performers" to x amount of people. I doubt there's any poor performers even around anymore. However, they will continue to require an x amount of "poor performers" until they meet their desired... — read more 

Regardless of how you feel regarding Ford EV's being green, infrastructure not in place, the cost, etc. Who the he-l has time to continually charge these beasts? All the chargers are on the back of parking lots...that should be fun on a 1 foot snow... — read more 

Ford should be required to staff us engineers to design and use our great uaw partners in US assembly plants to build bevs which qualify for tax incentives and not employ this outside the US

Here is my point of view. BEVs are not the solution for any of the problems we face today. I am not going to talk about how these vehicles are NOT green, not about the lack of capacity in our electrical grids, nor about the absence of a charging... — read more 

Found this interesting https://starkmanapproved.com/la-expansion-de-ford-en-mexico/ Farley is on his way to stated goal of less than 20% of Ford salaried being US+Europe. If you are still thinking you have a long term career at Ford, think again. “... — read more 

Why would a LL6 approve a GSR’s reduction in hours and then after the GSR worked part time for 2 months, the manager became angry and forced the GSR out of a job? Makes no sense. Then why did the LL6 approve this in the first place?

I'll let the article speak for itself. "number of Ford Police Interceptor Utility orders have also reportedly been cancelled lately with no explanation, causing issues for police departments across the country. "

Are our union colleagues safe during these ongoing layoffs? I always wonder how the UAW is doing during election time each year. All my union friends are hard Rs - but conservative politicians tend to be opposed to unions (excluding Police unions)... — read more 

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/ford-motor-company-to-pay-115-000-to-3454709/

Another disaster as last year?

Anybody that was part of the SIRP in August: Have you found your next job? How long did it take? Did you stay in the same area/industry? Are you still looking? Are you planning to stay in the same area/industry? To those who have decided to retire... — read more 

Ford has big EV plans, and it wants dealers to be in on those plans. But those plans require a big investment by dealers. While it looked like a lot of dealers were on board, dealer association groups have other ideas. Automotive News reports that... — read more 

I don't believe it either that Ford has a bright future or that the company will experience its golden ages again. However, to say that the company is heading for bankruptcy in a few years (as some do), isn't that a bit of an exaggeration?

Not charitable? Same company that has the reputation for appropriating patent technology and getting sued. Bet a dozen doughnuts that the conversation sounded like "I need some Phoebe press, you won't get the Ford business unless you build in... — read more 

Goodbye my Regent Court! We needed the cash more than we needed you.

Anyone with any CAD history of seeing what is happening at Ford can't be blind to what the facts are. In the past 10 to 15 years any CAD guy that retired, died or just plain left the company was never replaced. 90% of the CAD work went to suppliers... — read more 

Another waste of money is the Ford Campus. Can anyone tell me why they added these ugly parking structures? We now have less than 4000 employees than we had 6 months ago. Why do we need empty parking structures? Ford could have moved its entire... — read more 

Few weeks ago, I heard low performers can get severance. Has anyone that tried leaving to another company ask for severance and got one?

We continue to dilute our brand with never ending recalls. Ford Motor Company is recalling select 2022 Ford Bronco Sport models over a fuel pump bracket issue. The defect: in affected vehicles, the fuel pump control module (FPCM) bracket may not be... — read more 

And yet most people that work there can't do simple math, 5+2 x 3 = if you come up with 21 you are the problem.

Been with for 7 years and witnessed a clear pattern - if you're pension eligible and have approx 20 years in, doesn't matter how great your performance is, you will be separated, terminated, SIRP'd, call it whatever you want. Look at everyone from... — read more 

There should be a mechanism to address the manager leadership vacuum. Many are simply not doing their jobs and are unqualified to have people responsibilities. In 2007, Ford had a headcount reduction phase where they walked out only managers. It was... — read more 

NESC said the lump sum pension goes into 401K today. Why can’t they move it straight into Rollover IRA??? What about the contributory after tax? That should go to a post tax account not a pretax 401K. Plus the 401K takes an extra 30 days to start the... — read more 

It's rapidly getting worse here. Now that we have once again seen how the company "rewards" underperforming, does it even make sense to try to have a great performance here? How much are the best employees rewarded for their great performance?

So, AOC isn't willing to pay $8 per month for Twitter, what can Ford get for subscriptions paid to the Ford billionaires? “Lmao at a billionaire earnestly trying to sell people on the idea that “free speech” is actually a $8/mo subscription plan”