Ford...

First let me say that I feel for all of those that have or will lose their jobs at Ford Motor Company. I feel most of all for those that didn't immediately lose their jobs. For those fine men and women are about to go through three plus years of constant stress...second guessing their job, themselves, their lives. It sucks, and it's shitty of a company to treat their employees like that...even if they will soon be former employees.

Can you tell I've lived through a company that announces that layoffs are coming within a year or two? I used to work with Charles Schwab Inc. When I was hired, the catch phrase was...we've never laid off anyone. That was before they shut down an entire call center, cut a fifth of their workforce in the four other call centers, then shut down another call center. I made it through every layoff, but part of me wishes I would have been laid off the first round. Then I would have had graduate school paid for...they did have a nice severence package for the first rounders. Even going through the MBA class from hell would have been cake compared to not knowing if you would have a job next week or not.

So back to Ford...someone must be completely incompetent in upper management. There's no way that Chevy should be smacking Ford around. I'm sorry, it's the truth. Why, Chevy makes nothing but rattle-traps. Ok, I wouldn't swear that a Corvette is a rattle trap, but everything else they make is. Seriously, if you own a Chevy, and it's more than 3 years old, have someone drive it by you while you stand on the side of the road...you'll hear it rattle as it comes by.

I'm actually a Dodge man myself, but that's because I've owned the little economical Neon for 8 years now and plan on driving that puppy into the ground.

Anyway, the real point of my post...any executive that still works for Ford after this restructuring, should really consider impailing themself upon many sharp objects. Hell, this company went through a major restructering within the past 10 years already. Hmmm...didn't fix it that time, let's destroy the lives of 30,000 Americans and see if that fixes it.

If my last name were Ford, and I was associated with the company, I'd be ashamed...both of not being able to run the company, and for not being smart enough to figure out how to run it without layoffs. It's a shame, and it sucks that so many Americans will be out of a job now.

But that's the american way I guess, cut everything to the bone to save money...to hell with anyone that's affected. Proud to be an American? Sometimes, I'm not so sure they get it.