Frank IdontKnow

The have been moving them to holding points for well over a month now.

As far as I know.. This was his first shot at holding the reigns. His main concern was micromanaging. Things like removing picnic tables, drinking fountains, Lunchrooms, cribs and ordering guys to throw out millions of dollars worth of equipment and conveyour parts becuase an area looked cluttered. Now they are wondering why are they taking apart one machine to make another run.

He did show up. He toured. Franky G got promoted to an office in Dearborn. We are actually getting an experianced PM. Good News for us.

I'm Happy to say that Franky G has been " promoted " out of the Oakville Assembly Complex effective Monday. Lets hope that the poisen is gone but there is still one left behind. The head of Labour Relations and Franky G found a very nice bed to share. LR cozied up to Franky becuase they became more important and powerfull and Frank was all to happy to have another pion execute his shots.. You know... another person he could point a finger at when something went amiss. There must of been some tap dancing going on when Mark Fields was there yesterday. Hopefully the new PM will get a handle on whats really happening and not worry about the little things, like Frank going around and collecting all the picnic tables so that the lineworkers had nowhere to sit during their breaks, making sure that the water fountains were undrinkable in 90% of the plant and suspending people for not wearing safety glasses in every corner of the plant.

Short term pain for long term gain.

If your Dealer is changing dates on you its becuase Ford Motor Company is changing dates on him. Your vehicle is very likley built and sitting in a staging area somewhere waiting to be signed off. I would say your chances are very good that you will recieve your vehicle in December IF they are signed off by then. Please note that these delays are very common with new vehicles be it Ford or Toyota. The same thing happened with the Fusion and to this day, there are no recalls with the vehicles.. Toyota cant say the same for their new vehicles.

"For one, the grip provided by the optional 245/60-18 Continental CrossContact LX all-season tires is very modest at 0.75 g. For another, the blend of mass and so-so grip yields longish stopping distances: 191 feet from 70 mph, hefty brakes notwithstanding." So... order it with different tires. This is a very heavy vehicle and stops just fine in day to day driving.. Perhaps on a test track the stopping distance is not up to the standards of a lighter vehicle but people wont be driving the edge on a test track. If I was unfortunate enough to be in an accident I would much rather be in the heavier vehicle.

NO. The plant has to run for 5 consecutive days problem free for the vehicles to be signed off and released to the public. Everytime there is a problem ( Such as the paintshop fans catching on fire, Stampings comming in from Buffalo not to spec etc ) the counter is reset. So there is no date set in stone Mark Fields is arriving today to see just WTF is going on. Franky G is putting on his tap shoes right about now. There are plenty of cars with BAMRS ( Big Ass Moon Roofs ) in the parking lot ready to ship. I must say. The delay aside. These are very very nice vehicles.. The ones that have Sirius radio seem to have it presubbed. The people that buy this vehicle are going to be very happy with it.

Its a step in the right direction. The problem is that two fall guys got canned. The one that needs to go is still there. Frank has been able to deflect the blame so far but make no mistake about it. He was the puppetmaster and pulled all the strings. The two guys that got canned were just following orders blindly. the were far from the sharpest pencils in the pack.

Frank G is the plant manager. The damage was done over the coarse of a few years. It was done at a time when only the Freestar was running and preperations were being done for the Flex plant and the Edge. If Ford allocates x amount of dollars to shut down the old truck plant paint shop. ( which was to become the new Edge paint shop ) and all Frank does is shut the lights off on his way out and spend the money elswhere or send it back, how is Detroit to know? The assume that the money was spent on the Paint Shop. Now we struggle to paint 100 per shift. When Ford allocates money for a Maintenance program and the money goes elswhere and the maintenance isnt done how is Ford going to know? Upper managment has beem falsifying reports of work getting done when it actually hasnt. Recently one of the top guys got canned for falsifying safety reports when an outsider from Detroit noticed. Unfortunatley they only got Franks fall guy. Maintenance is unfortunatley a necessary evil. You either pay for it now with regular PMs , inspections and repairs when problems are 1st noticed or you pay for it later when a conveyor falls from the ceiling for example. ( happened this week. ). Loss of two shifts of production. Frank G is a very incopetant individual. Seven years ago this was made very apparent when he was incharge of body in the Freestar plant. Both Trades and managment made him look very incompetant ( becuase he is, thats why he has a stone to grind with Skilled Trades ). In any event he was "promoted" out of the plant to an US plant where he wreaked more havoc ( Just ask the US plant, KC I think ) until he was "Promoted" again to PM of Oakville. Franks 1st job was to fire certain managers that new how incompetant he was and then he turned his attention to dismantling one of Fords finest maintenance programs. Franks Daddy owns many Ford Dealerships, Thats how Frank got into Ford.

One of the biggest problems is misappropriation of funds by the current plant manager Frank G. Frank G has taken money that was allocated by Detroit for Plant maintenance and used it on other things or returned it to Detroit so that he could collect a nice bonus. All the while he has been lying to Detroit saying everything is going great. This lie was spread over the course of a couple of years. The end result is a Paint Shop thats on life support and the final area is literly falling apart. The good news is that this is all very fixable. The bad news is that Frang G just layed of 25% of the maintenance force becuase he has a stone to grind with them. The Edge is an outstanding vehicle and there were very few minor bugs with it that are ironed out. the problem is we can't paint more then 100 a shift and when we do, the assembly area is down becuase it has not been maintained like it was supposed to be. Oakville had one of the finest maintenance programs in the Ford Empire, They were leaders in virtualy every Ford benchmark. All this changed when Frank G arrived with his personal vendetta against Skilled Trades. He virtually eliminated FPS and PM programs, cut all funding and misappropriated funds that were intended for plant upkeep. Now he has decided to take it a step further and layed off 25% of the skilled trades during Fords very critical launch while the plant is in shambles. Frank G has stated that he does not want to be in Canada and that this vehicle does not deserve to be in Canada. he is very determined to make this launch fail.