Ford

[Johns00Z28]

I got this as an email and thought I'd post it here....pretty pathetic.


Food for thought - what's wrong with this picture ...?)

A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company (Ford Motors) decided to
have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practiced long and hard to
reach their peak performance before the race.

On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.

The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason
for the crushing defeat. A management team made up of senior management was
formed to investigate and recommend appropriate action.

Their conclusion was the Japanese had 8 people rowing and 1 person steering, while
the American team had 7 people steering and 2 people rowing.

Feeling a deeper study was in order, American management hired a consulting
company and paid them a large amount of money for a second opinion.

They advised, of course, that too many people were steering the boat, while not
enough people were rowing.

Not sure of how to utilize that information, but wanting to prevent another loss to
the Japanese, the rowing team's management structure was totally reorganized to
4 steering supervisors, 2 area steering superintendents and 1 assistant superintendent
steering manager.

They also implemented a new performance system that would give the 2 people
rowing the boat greater incentive to work harder. It was called the 'Rowing Team
Quality First Program,' with meetings, dinners and free pens for the rowers. There
was discussion of getting new paddles, canoes and other equipment, extra vacation
days for practices and bonuses. The pension program was trimmed to "equal the
competition" and some of the resultant savings were channeled into morale boosting
programs and teamwork posters.

The next year the Japanese won by two miles.

Humiliated, the American management laid-off one rower, halted development of
a new canoe, sold all the paddles, and canceled all capital investments for new
equipment. The money saved was distributed to the Senior Executives as bonuses.

The next year, try as he might, the lone designated rower was unable to even finish
the race (having no paddles,) so he was laid off for unacceptable performance, all
canoe equipment was sold and the next year's racing team was out-sourced to India.

Sadly, the End.

Here's something else to think about:

Ford has spent the last thirty years moving all its factories out of the US, claiming
they can't make money paying American wages.

Toyota has spent the last thirty years building more than a dozen plants inside the
US . The last quarter's results: Toyota makes 4 billion in profits while Ford racked
up 9 billion in losses.

Ford folks are still scratching their heads, and collecting bonuses ...

... IF THIS WEREN'T SO TRUE IT MIGHT BE FUNNY

[FORD RECOVERY EXPERT]

FORD> ... <TOYOTA

[Y2KPewterSS]

[310stanger]

Thats MOST DEFINITELY TRUE! But replace Ford with AMERICAN CAR COMPANY lol cause that describes american car companies as a collective whole pretty much. Heck, american business period. As long as the big wigs get their palms greased, itll be this way. All they do is point blame and pass the buck on the workin man and then when he is unable to conform to their conditions fire him. The big 3 practically deserve to fail. They did it to themselves. I jus hope it never does happen, any of the big 3 failing would be horrible for the american economy and spirit. On a positive note some of the cars coming out of both ford and gm are the best they've ever been. I still think chrysler is shit personally.