What are your thoughts on why they are only withholding 22% taxes on the AICP and allowing employees to adjust that? In prior years they have always withheld over 30% and NEVER allowed employees an adjustment.

The company that offers an ICE based pickup will always get my business. And if they offer it without a wireless modem, even better. Though I can always find it and snip the wiring.

States that they are looking at revisiting GSR/LL6 bonus vs LL5+ to make them more fair and equitable more updates next week.

Would you welcome them and congratulate them or would you warn them off?

I don't know what would have to happen for someone to move from Tesla to Ford. I wouldn't mind going from Ford to Tesla if I had a chance, but vice versa. I don't think I would do that. Doesn't this newspaper headline sound weird to you -... — read more 

LL5: Somewhere in the $30s. LL4 Somewhere in the $60s? LL3? I'm guessing 6 figures? Let that sink in. 135% OF those targets.

2% will be a high merit

It is as if you could see a Management 101 book open on his desk! You cannot make this stuff up!

The profit sharing formulas always favored LL5 and above. The curve was/is exponential, so the higher levels would receive profit sharing almost equal (or more?) to their salary while the GSR/LL6 received $5k-$10K. This will never change - we use to... — read more 

Obviously, the problem with the Lions was QB Matthew Stafford (NOT) who blossomed when no longer under the Ford Family control. Is it possible the auto arm of the family is full of Matthew Stafford’s who can’t blossom? Is there a root cause and... — read more 

Between the bad quality our management knowingly demand get passed through - DPS6 anyone. The most recent SRD failure AND in your face age discrimination. Whose orchestrators are still with the company and got 135% bonuses...Plus years of the same... — read more 

$f is up ~60% They justify 54% and 135% with terms like target, plan, metric. "This is the metric that we agreed to" Who is we? The entire thing made me want to vomit.

Blah blah remote is more productive… no way I say. Come on, we know everyone does as little as possible at home.

I’m sure that’s a big hard no. It doesn’t fit the narrative.

Yeah. Stock option buys at less than half the actual price. SMH So whatever he spent was immediately a 100%+ rate of return. That's not having confidence in the future of your company. That's the rich getting richer.

Good luck getting more than 54% work load off me now (and yes, I'm NOW actively looking at other companies).

I'm constantly thinking about whether a global semiconductor shortage that troubles Ford should normalize throughout the year. It's making me a little anxious. Any thoughts?

While the salary worker bees get nearly nothing for supporting and trying to fix all the problems caused by our incompetent leadership - these same "leaders" walk away with bags of money. Kumar has nothing more to add then they will do "Focus Groups"... — read more 

Just curious if anyone has heard discussions about any packages coming out to thin the herd.

Peloton, ki----g it in the virtual bike market. Came out with a poorly designed treadmill that started ki----g and hurting people. Just laid off 3K tech workers. Ford should take note. The recent GM EV fire at their proving grounds shows that these... — read more 

https://electrek.co/2022/02/08/ford-ceo-rival-tesla-producing-enough-electric-vehicles/amp/ "We would rival Tesla right now if we were producing enough electric vehicles" ROFL!! Yeah.... That's the WHOLE issue. Not very bright

Suspending/ slowing production at several factories due to short supplies of computer chips is very bad news. What about putting in place systems to better manage the supply of computer chips? Obviously, our leadership is failing miserably in... — read more 

Things are a mess right now of the company's own making. The merit and bonuses this year will do nothing to stem the flight from the company as other companies now gladly hire remote workers. The perfect storm of bad policy, not keeping up with the... — read more 

Yet the hourly workers profit sharing checks will more then double this year compared to last? Am I missing something?

Is the mandate still in place? There's been hardly any communication. The FAQ sheets were updated. Anyone get an exemption approved? Anyone have an exemption denied? Anyone get a 30day vacation?

I started working here in 2005. I remember being fascinated by my colleagues at the time and learning a lot from them. Now this is unfortunately becoming a company of mediocrity. There are people here who a few years ago, in my opinion, couldn’t even... — read more 

https://www.geekwire.com/2022/amazon-more-than-doubles-max-base-pay-to-350k-for-corporate-and-tech-workers-citing-labor-market/ Now put that 2% merit, and that 54% AICP into that context!

I’m sure everyone was expecting more - this is disheartening.

Way to sh-t on us workers by our great leadership....

Not only the mandate is suspended, some IT wizards broke the entire vaccine reporting system so no one can report either vaccinated or not. Smart, cheers!

https://www.fool.com/investing/2022/02/06/ford-stock-plunges-10-after-earnings-as-reality-si/

From Deadline Detroit: By Eric Starkman Featured_whitmer_52862 Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaking Friday at the train station The writer H.L. Mencken famously said: “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”... — read more 

barrons.com: Ford Confirms Production Will Be Rolled Back at Some Plants Next Week. https://www.barrons.com/articles/ford-motor-production-cutbacks-factories-51644077302 Naw. Instead he and Bill will just push more DEI training.....

When you don't care about the company you work for and the quality of work you're offering, you start making easy money. I used to try so hard and got screwed over again and again. Now I do only what I have to and even that I do half-assedly. They... — read more 

My team just lost 2 colleagues. They were technically good and hard working people. Not acceptable at all. I am hearing 40% agency reduction targets too. Good Engineers are being targeted. The salaried folks in my team don’t work at all. Simply... — read more 

There was a time when Ford had leaders that actually connected what needed to be done with the people being called on to do it. Don't know what happened. This is so true! I too keep wondering what happened in the meantime and why it changed so... — read more 

As part of the public-private partnership, the city of Detroit has a tentative agreement to designate a special Transportation Innovation Zany Zone of Yahoos (TIZZY) testing site within the Michigan Central district. The zone would give businesses... — read more 

I do not see any differences. Wish they would highlight the changes. Anyone know?

For the Train Station. GIVE THE TAXPAYER MONEY BACK, FORD. YOU JUST HAD A $17 Billion profit! “And speaking of taxpayer funding — there's more where that came from for Ford, which initially got a $240-million subsidy package for the development... — read more 

$1000 in cost reductions??? Omg. Either it was poorly designed or they cheapened it up. As a former engineer and program manager at Ford, that amount of cost reduction is not a good sign.