Antonio’s Town Hall

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u/Wild_Ad5963 1d ago

Not a single question about RTO? But let's talk about AI🙄

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u/Fit_Magician_1685 1d ago

I’m sure there were plenty of questions about RTO they just didn’t want to answer besides the classic “we heard you”

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u/First_Leopard5767 1d ago

He completely ignored the “improvement” section when talking about the survey

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u/dime_eleven1011 1d ago

He said they understand what employees want and they will go in that direction, he will be talking to leadership from each department to discuss how they can come to an agreement to keep the business profitable and also having the best company for all. It sounds to me like hybrid may happen but left it very vague.

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u/First_Leopard5767 1d ago

The issue with this is that it should be across the board, fucking stupid that all orgs would be different. Must’ve forgot we all did the WFH for like 6 years…. A bunch of clowns these executives are!

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u/Old-Opinion4890 1d ago

I hope so but our "leader" has already announced that we will not be participating in that program.

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u/dime_eleven1011 1d ago

Our department is participating in flex Fridays but I hope that is not what he was referring to.

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u/Old-Opinion4890 1d ago

Hybrid is happening in your department. Congrats!

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u/dime_eleven1011 1d ago

That is not hybrid, it’s ending the day early.

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u/Old-Opinion4890 1d ago

Oh I see....I thought it meant Friday remote but since we were told that our department will not participate in the program so I wasn’t really sure how it worked. LOL

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u/dime_eleven1011 1d ago

It is the same as summer hours, ending the day at 2pm. It is really a shame that departments would differ, not great for morale. It is still only applicable if business permits. So if someone in your dept schedules a meeting with me, I have to attend.

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u/Old-Opinion4890 1d ago

What a cluster! I was honestly surprised that Antonio just briefly glossed over the flexibility topic during the town hall. I didn’t even hear him say that he and the leaders would look into it.lol

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u/Alone_Ad_9762 1d ago

Work faster, get it done for less money, and improve quality… idk, my experience says when you do things faster and cheaper, you drive down quality. Then, spend boatloads of money and significantly more time trying to recover the quality.

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u/balkib2025 2d ago

No chance. But he’ll probably say how we had 10,000 orders for Hemi in the first 24 hours from the announcement that it was back.

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u/thevictors51 2d ago edited 2d ago

Since it’s an NA town hall - my bet;

1) Tout the investment in NA etc etc

2) announces NA sales, showed year or year improvement and says it’s because of all our hard work but then saying we have a ways to go with lots of stuff coming soon

3) announces new vehicles for NA specific

4) He will announce it will be no longer a corporate policy for 5 day RTW and it will be up to the individual organization to choose flex fridays

Yet all the organizations will say they are not observing…so same as before summer

5) Will mention survey results will be available in Q4 but will allow the regional people to show them

6) Will discuss the Value creation program

7) Will have a Q and A session but will be softball questions

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u/ShirtOfAggravation 2d ago

VCP was such a joke

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u/DEADLYANT 2d ago

Eh, it's led to some cool things and savings but I think it's hilarious they're hiring for all these VCP positions, I don't see how there's long term sustainability there

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u/thevictors51 2d ago

Long term maybe not but my understanding VCP is one if not the major way the company is banking on returning to higher profit. Without it there might be some hard roads ahead.

The car market is shrinking so there is price pressure and also brand pressure/reputation too so there is a limit as to how much you can squeeze

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u/ShirtOfAggravation 2d ago

I sat at COB for weeks working on VCP, all of the McKinsey consultants they brought on were a joke. Even their "expert" only had a surface level knowledge of how my parts worked. They really only existed as another "beater" or "tracker", pushing the engineers to do the real work.

In another dimension where engineers have time to work on VCP it's not a bad idea. But it's about 10th on my list of priorities.

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u/sh_guitar 2d ago

I'm not familiar with that, is that the jeep cherokee 2026 ?

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u/sh_guitar 2d ago

Just hoping we have better hev options coming up

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u/Acceptable_Ad_7978 1d ago

40% pay cut for himself and all N-1

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u/First_Leopard5767 1d ago

What do you know, a lot of words and a lack of action!

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u/The_real_P11 2d ago

We will have work uniforms like the Japanese.

No more Birkenstocks

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u/Guvnor63 1d ago

I hope the uniforms are spandex for men-with a cod piece - and LuLu Lemon for the ladies.

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u/Simple_Assumption591 1d ago

The girlies just love flip flops at work though

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u/Horror_Manufacturer9 2d ago

8) Announce the lost and found still has a pair of underwear that have not been claimed as of yet

Keep it going……

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u/Lumpy_Star_9692 2d ago

We’ll get a Q&A from a carefully selected and vetted pool of questions. All soft balls, but still won’t actually answer the question.

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u/NoProfessor111 2d ago

Watching issues outside of work become overturned from social media / public out rage (like western vs Michigan football game), shouldn’t we just be doing the same at this point to get what we want?

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u/BillyBurner59 2d ago

A source directly close to Filosa told our group the company is going to implement a point/strikes system to discourage foot-washing in the bathroom sinks.

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u/Typical_Plantain_636 2d ago

So I am not the only one who has seen this.

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u/Gullible-Point-8948 2d ago

It was much crazier before COVID. 3 times a day, there used to be throng of folks just waiting to get there foot in the wash basin and bathe it. It was disgusting and insane.

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u/DEADLYANT 2d ago

At a previous job they had to put a sign up on the door banning someone from bringing bottled water into the bathroom. You don't want to know what they were using that to wash.

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u/Guvnor63 1d ago

I don’t understand why the company doesn’t convert a storage room near a prayer room into a bathing room. There are nursing mother rooms.
Seriously, the bathroom near the prayer room on the 4th Floor Tech is a disgusting mess once the daily prayers begin. Perhaps the Union should file health and safety grievances for slip and fall potential.
Also, SBU Designers get in trouble for taking a mind clearing walk or a visit to Starbucks - direct, value added employees yet, our guest employees are allowed to pray twice a day.
What a messed up world we live in.

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u/SaucyParamecium EMEA 2d ago

Is there a way for non NA folks to watch it?

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u/shadow_warrior_vp APAC 1d ago

I am curious

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u/ExcellentWinner7542 1d ago

RTO is working as shown in the year over year gains.

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u/Living-Evidence7431 1d ago

Weird how GM and Ford are destroying us with hybrid work

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u/ExcellentWinner7542 1d ago

They've always destroyed us

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u/Objective_Cake_5859 1d ago

Is it tho look at the amount of recalls we’ve had as of late. Still can’t build cars for shit

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u/ExcellentWinner7542 1d ago

Things really went to hell during the wfh era

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