Why Mondays Suck at Ford

Monday the 23rd--worse than Friday the 13th if you're a Ford employee. As part of Ford's supposedly turnaround (and metro Detroit's further economic decline), Bill Ford Jr. (aka the Dow Jones' youngest-looking CEO/scion--oops, the Toyota Scion is one reason Ford's gone downhill) will announce that about 25,000 blue collar and 4,000 white collar jobs will be slashed, along with the closing of many plants. At least some of those plants are in Mexico, so we can't say all the jobs are lost to NAFTA. Ford employees and the local media are referring to tomorrow as Black Monday, and with all the pink slips being handed out, you can bet security will be Air Force One-tight around Ford headquarters to prevent anyone going postal...or going Ford, as the potential case may be. Disclaimer from LID to Ford employees: violence isn't being encouraged, so don't "go Ford"...just take your slip and walk out like a man, head high. Then get yourself a blog and dog the company best you can. Luckily I'm not a Ford employee, so I don't have to spend my Monday in dread, but much love and severance checks to those of you who are.