What The Ford Layoffs Say For The Future

There is some fun stuff in the news. So let's start with this. It's so interesting, right? So we just talked, you know, on a recent episode about the fact that there's a technician shortage, right. And there's like, whatever, there's a ton of need for technicians. So Ford, their response to that is they're now laying off about 3,000 workers. Now I had to read into it a little bit. They're all white collar jobs, but they're letting go of 3,000 people. And for those of you, this is a public service announcement. For you kids out there, if you're going to school to be an engineer for internal combustion engines, you might want to rethink that because a lot of the.

Workforce in the internal combustion engineer, AKA the gas engine, they went bye bye. They're not engineers anymore, but essentially Ford has pulled out the tape and started cutting some jobs.

Wonder how many kids a year graduate.

With, with engineering degrees. Right?

I mean it's gotta be easy to do other engineering. Engineering's engineering in a lot of ways.

Yeah, I'm sure. But I would think that like, you know, especially in those kind of those midwestern states like Indiana, which Purdue University is a big engineering school and a lot of the Mission School, Michigan schools probably been feeding for decades to the automotive companies have enough engineers as it is.

So I'm sure they can repurpose their knowledge.

I hope so, but it is, that.

Is interesting when you think about it. There's going to be more of those sort of layoffs. And I'm curious. So we talked about before about how Volkswagen wanted to lay off people because the electric cars take less head count or less people.

Yeah, it's way more automated, I think.

And so the problem for Volkswagen was the board or the unions had seats on the board.

That doesn't make any sense though because it's kind of like the scorpion and the frog analogy.

I don't know the scorpion and frog analogy.

So the scorpion and the frog analogy is a scorpion walks up to a frog and says, hey, will you swim me to the other side of the river? I have to get to the other side. And the frog's like, no, you're a scorpion, you'll sting me. And the scorpion's like, no, I won't. And they go back and forth and eventually the scorpion convinces the frog to swim him across. He goes, hop on my back. They're out in the middle of the river. And then the scorpion stings him. And the frog's like, why did you do that? You just killed us both. And the Scorpion's like, I know, but it's what I do. I'm a Scorpion. It's like the union's willing to take down the whole thing.

Right.

Just to save themselves.

The best thing is to, is to accept the idea that what you want is a healthy, profitable company. And maybe that means less jobs, but in the end it means secure jobs.

Yeah.

So it might be less, but they're secure. Right. And so we got to wonder with Ford and GM and their deals with UAG and all that, I think, think that they'll have more leeway. But the next thing will be that.

I think so, too. It's going to be this next 24 months. I mean, stay tuned. It's going to be very, very interesting stuff.

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