Cam Phaser debacle

[GordoJay]

Unemployment is lower than precovid, why is everything on backorder still?

Unemployment is a semi-fictional number. Anyone who has been unemployed for too long is deemed "not looking" and is not counted. A better number is how many people are employed. The reason they don't use it is because it's better....

 

[smurfslayer]

Covid is the universal excuse for underperforming companies and people. Airlines in particular. Everybody blames covid; the part’s aren’t here because covid, you have to wait in line because covid, you won’t be seen on time because covid, YOU! PUT THAT MASK BACK ON, YOU CAN EAT AND WEAR YOUR MASK! DO YOU WANT TO BE ON THE NO FLY LIST, PEASANT?

Parts? You want parts? Come back next month, we’re working from home because covid.

 

[CoronaRaptor]

Covid is the universal excuse for underperforming companies and people. Airlines in particular. Everybody blames covid; the part’s aren’t here because covid, you have to wait in line because covid, you won’t be seen on time because covid, YOU! PUT THAT MASK BACK ON, YOU CAN EAT AND WEAR YOUR MASK! DO YOU WANT TO BE ON THE NO FLY LIST, PEASANT?

Parts? You want parts? Come back next month, we’re working from home because covid.

Not to hijack this thread further, but we got rid of the mask mandate, so that's a relief and everybody can work two jobs up here, there's that much work and more. I think Ford is not as organized as they used to be, even just 5 years ago, unfortunately. No world problems ever slowed Ford down, but something is amiss with the upper brass at Ford to be fumbling this much as of late. I sure hope their electric vehicle production is more superior than their ice's as of late.

 

[goblues38]

Parts? You want parts? Come back next month, we’re working from home because covid.

And now, we can't get workers to come back to the office. They are quitting if we ask them to come in. Our economy is Fvcked.

 

[CoronaRaptor]

And now, we can't get workers to come back to the office. They are quitting if we ask them to come in. Our economy is Fvcked.

People with money are the ones saying scre ew it! I will buy beach property in another country and not be around all these millennials. That leaves a movement from the lower paying jobs to middle class which is where the void is in these low paying jobs, such as grocery stores, inventory jobs, warehouse workers, fast food, etc. Part of it is also, seeing the mentality of government officials, not adhering to their own recommendations, etc and being forced to pay so much tax and now with the price of fuel "you want me to drive to work?" , that will cost $500 a month now instead of $200, and it goes on and on.

 

[GordoJay]

And now, we can't get workers to come back to the office. They are quitting if we ask them to come in. Our economy is Fvcked.

Going in to the office sucks if you're an employee. Distraction out the ying-yang. Managers love it, because distraction is what they do. With the shortage of qualified workers, they've got the leverage.

 

[jzweedyk]

Just think of the money you guys will save now by not driving your Raptors. Are the parts coming from Russia/Ukraine? Unemployment is lower than precovid, why is everything on backorder still? Still, better to be safe than put more miles on "broken" parts.

I'm driving mine. Supposedly the cam phasers still work, just noisy on start up. I have the full maintenance, so if it blows up, it is on them.

 

[goblues38]

Going in to the office sucks if you're an employee. Distraction out the ying-yang. Managers love it, because distraction is what they do. With the shortage of qualified workers, they've got the leverage.

disagree ....people are LAZY....when they way a good % dont give 100% of their time to the project.

If the managers do their job correctly.......being colocated with your teams is WAY more efficient. It is not a distraction.

Yes, we get thing done in a wfh environment.......but it takes 3-4x as long to get questions answered when people are wfh. When people are wfh and you have 20% not giving 100%....those that are working hard suffer because they have to pick up the slack of those not doing the work.

 

[GordoJay]

disagree ....people are LAZY....when they way a good % dont give 100% of their time to the project.

If the managers do their job correctly.......being colocated with your teams is WAY more efficient. It is not a distraction.

It's going to depend on the job, the employee, and the manager. I had more bad managers than good. The good ones gave me room to work by acting as a shit umbrella, keeping the rain of corporate crap from getting in my way. The bad ones were a PITA. A couple lived for meetings. One could literally waste half of my day with one meeting. And we had daily meetings. The open office structure was a disaster for my productivity. Yes, I could get a question answered by walking twenty feet. But anyone could interrupt me at any time. And they did. It was a net loss. Since all of my jobs had flexible hours. I got more done between 6:00 and 8:00am than I did the whole rest of the day because I was the only one in the office. I would then leave at 2:30pm and fu*k you if you schedule a meeting at 4pm. Many jobs require focus. That requires freedom from interruption. And if you need a certain job done, who cares whether it takes your employee four hours a day, four days a week, with the workday starting at midnight, on a laptop from a ***** bar, so long as the job is done well and on time?

Yes, there needs to be communication, up, down, and sideways. But many jobs are easier and more pleasant when you have peace and quiet. Managing is not one of them. Managing is harder and less pleasant. But if the role of a manager is to remove obstacles from the path of their employee, to recognize when they stray from the path, and to help them recover, then you need to figure out how to do that. It takes a lot less face-to-face interaction than most managers are willing to admit. If I were young and had discovered the joys of working remotely, you wouldn't get me into the office without a recession. In a hot job market? Watch me get a raise by jumping ship.

You want people to come into the office? Try paying them enough to make it worth their time and trouble. Just an idea.
Or you could settle for second and third rate people who can't get a better job because they need constant supervision. Sounds like win/win to me.

 

[Rep732]

I'm on a waiting list at my local ford dealer that I trust. They said they will call when the parts are in as what was said above national backorder