Ford Motors: Clean out your desk and come with me...

(thanks to raw story...)

Ford Motor Co., for the first time in generations, has resorted to firing employees and immediately escorting them from corporate buildings...

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[N]ot nearly enough people have come off Ford's payroll to meet its initial goal of cutting 2,750 of its 35,000 North American white-collar workers.

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That means Ford is getting tough about cutting people loose. The company wouldn't say Thursday how many people it has fired in recent weeks, but Bill Ford acknowledged the bold new measures in an e-mail to employees on Monday.

"Some have asked me why we have had to ask employees to depart immediately," he wrote. "Well, the management team has discussed this and concluded that it's kinder to make our separations in this fashion, rather than have the employee remain in a difficult situation. Frankly, there's no easy way to do this."

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Ford's firings reflect the cold reality facing today's employees, workforce experts said.

"It used to be that if there was a downsizing, it would happen in a way that would show that you're taking care of us, that you're being a caring employer," Ellen Kossek, a professor of human resource management at Michigan State University, said Thursday. "Ford is not going out of its way to not be a nice employer. They are just making the difficult choices."

kinder...? KINDER...?? for fucking WHOM, i'd like to know...!

treating long term (or even short term) employees in this manner is cruel and unusual punishment... they're right, there IS no easy way to do this but this type of human-resources-strategy-from-
hell, straight from catbert's manual of diabolic hr practices, is part and parcel of the money-over-people, gotta-satisfy-the-
analysts-and-stockholders-above-all, soulless, and downright mean-spirited practices embodied in the modern corporation that pass under the ridiculously euphemistic banner of "making difficult choices..."

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