So, on to the next bandwagon Jim is jumping on: automation, and hard. AI is suddenly the solution to all our problems. Outsourcing is great, but in 5 years when 85% of white-collar jobs are in India and the remaining 14% are on H1B visas here in America, who is going to replace them?
I wouldn't be too worried; these things go in cycles, and Jim has to look busy and visionary for his boss. What just amazes me is how they haven't caught on that the company's real profit-makers weren't even conceived by him. Zero ideas hatched by him and his team have actually done anything positive.
I'd be a little more concerned with the executive team, their friends and new hires. A criminal has managed training in both Marketing and now oversees Finance training. Look it up—she's been convicted of defrauding companies. But hey, she may be sadistic to employees, but she's a friend of the new CFO, you know, from that tiny car company (or was it a software company? Not sure Lucid even knows...).
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This company has gone in a very weird direction. We have LL2s with no common sense or understanding of what manufacturing actually looks like, and C-Suite individuals with zero understanding of manufacturing, coming from companies that weren't even best-in-class for their own areas.
DEI was fun while it lasted. Interestingly, a significant portion of the current LL3 and LL4 leadership secured their positions through this initiative. Now, some appear to be distancing themselves from their past involvement, as it has become evident that a few individuals actually we-ponized their influence against others.
Ford — Start treating your people with dignity and respect. Use some common sense, like your parents did, and you might eke out survival. Quit playing politics (you're all terrible at it), or hire some political consultants to help you clean up your act. Fire the incompetent, fire the criminals, and fire the ones that don't embody good, old-fashioned family values and morals. At least show the public you've turned your act around to save yourself a shred of dignity in the community.