alt Hacker NewsIf they gave the engineers appropriate severance packages, then they're at least out that much as a stupidity tax, but that's probably the most we can expect as far as consequences for the exec suite.
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mikepurvis • today at 3:51 PM
Presumably they're also out the top 10-20% of talent which immediately found jobs elsewhere and would have little interest in returning to Ford to work under such incompetent management.
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freediddy • today at 4:47 PM
If they take the job they likely need to give back some or all of the severance package.
rootnod3 • today at 3:57 PM
Not really those execs paying that stupidity tax though. They still get their bonuses. Pretty much zero consequences.
There is a huge cost for this either way (severance packages, yes, but also lost productivity, reduced team coherence, etc), but that unfortunately doesn’t necessarily translate to a political cost for the managers involved in pushing the dumb idea, particularly if the CEO was pressuring everyone for cost savings. They will escape by saying, “We did it because everyone else is doing it and we were told it was the right thing. How were we to know that it wouldn’t work?”