Ford University - Project Manager Ford Audio-Video Systems Employee Review

Morale, pay, company culture. It always felt like a revolving door. When brought up, management's response was that the turnover was standard for the industry. Salary employees on install track are treated the same as hourly install techs, but still OT exempt. When I brought up that 29 CFR § 541.2 (job title alone is insufficient) and 541.705 (trainees don't count) seemed to me to make this practice potentially illegal, my concerns were dismissed since "the company's lawyers know a lot more than you about employment law, the company wouldn't do anything illegal". This trainee period seemed like a big reason burnout felt so prevalent, especially when combined with the very frequent travel. Company culture was very.... Oklahoman. No work from home or hybrid except for specific positions (unless you're a favorite or very long tenured), inflexible working hours, mediocre pay. Extremely WASP-y and male-dominated - this is a problem for the industry as a whole, but it's no better at Ford. Extremely old-fashioned tech package. Everything is run off of a bespoke in-house DOS-based program that Mr Ford will never part with. (It's not literally DOS based but it looks the part, keyboard input only and it may have been cutting edge about 50 years ago).