Don't park here if you don't drive a Ford!!

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The plant manager at a Dearborn, MI Ford plant said that if you don't drive a Ford you can't parking in the employees parking lot. Sounds a bit extreme to me but I guess desperate times call for desperate measures. Also, one employee is fearful of reprisals. Click below for the full story:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11057921/

Ford plant bans competitors' cars from lot
Dearborn manager says employees can only park if they drive a Ford
If you work at the Ford Dearborn Truck Plant in Dearborn, Mich., you better drive a Ford.


DEARBORN, Mich. - The parking lot at Ford Motor Co.'s Dearborn Truck plant just got a little more exclusive.

Plant manager Rob Webber announced Monday that, starting Feb. 1, the parking lot may be used only by employees who drive vehicles built by Ford or one of its subsidiaries.

Webber's move came the same day Ford announced a restructuring plan under which it will cut up to 30,000 jobs and close 14 facilities by 2012. Ford said the plan is designed to make the company's North American division, which lost $1.6 billion last year, profitable by 2008.

"It was something this plant manager took upon himself. It's not a company-wide policy," Ford spokeswoman Anne Marie Gattari said, adding that Webber made the decision after consulting with local UAW leaders.

Jerry Sullivan, president of United Auto Workers Local 600, which represents about 2,600 workers at the plant, applauded Webber's move.

"Everybody's in this together. (We need) to buy the products we make and support the company," Sullivan said. "This is a good place to start."

The UAW in the past has banished Asian and European vehicles from its parking lots. The restriction at Dearborn Truck, however, may be the first to be sanctioned by an automaker, The Detroit News reported Friday.

The ban applies to both salaried and hourly workers with permits to park on site. About 15 percent of Dearborn Truck employees have such permits. Employees who don't drive Ford products can still park in an employee lot across the street from the plant.

Those employees will include a veteran skilled tradesman who said he drives a vehicle made by DaimlerChrysler AG because it gives him "the most bang for my buck."

"They can't tell you how to spend your money," said the man, who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals. "It's still a free country."
 
Well, I don't think it is such a bad idea. Having the employees driving the products they are producing or designing is a good thing. If a employee of Ford is driving a Cheby what does that say?
 
What a great form of deniability on the part of Ford that they haven't been making a superior product.

Thank God Lamborghini doesn't have such rules, otherwise you'd need to rob a Vegas casino just to get to work! :rolleyes:
 
Conti94 said:
Well, I don't think it is such a bad idea. Having the employees driving the products they are producing or designing is a good thing. If a employee of Ford is driving a Cheby what does that say?


Here's a question: What if you can't get preferrable financing through Ford? What if you can't afford to sell your car and buy a Ford? What if you can't afford a new car at all and you have another make or model?

This program just isn't realistic, is totally unprofessional, inconsiderate, and wreaks of desperation and jealousy.

I bet Honda doesn't have to owrry about what parks in their lot. :rolleyes:
 
thats really funny but i mean if u think about it they need to cut jobs some employees dont drive ford products if they cant get to work they wont have a job and hey they fired themselves but i mean its not realistic i dont think they could enforce this rule to full impact if someone takes them to court but i still tthink its really funny i mean its like this really important ceo is sayin no girls allowed in my club lol
 
i wonder if u have to have blonde hair and blue eyes to work there too?! lol. thats pretty ridiculous. apparently ford isnt doin so hot these days.
 

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