I’m curious.  What are you eating instead that is cheaper and just as nutritious and filling? 

As an engineer, its hilarious how we always bear the brunt of layoffs, and then quality falls into a hole after 3 years (or time tables, or keeping up with the market, whatever), and then they bring engineers back. No one in management looks 2 seconds into the future. They only look at next quarters profit margins.

If you think eggs are too expensive what about milk, meat, butter...what do you actually eat if you are depriving yourself of a breakfast that might cost you what, $2.50 all in for a couple of eggs, some toast, and a piece of fruit?

Management, especially at that level, will never internalize that mismanagement is the problem.

Our entire economy is run by institutional investors drunk on short-term profits. Like, ten billion in profit? That’s pretty good, man. You can fix a lot of problems with ten billion dollars.

Damn, Americans find 25 cents an egg a lot? And here in Canada I’m glad to find eggs at 30 cents a piece when I can. Usually 33-35 cents.

The finger pointing has begun.  I give him 6 months max before he is gone.

Also:  The 5 different teams that do nothing but track Engineer’s work.

I don’t think building cars faster or trying to push more cars out the door is going to do Ford any favors right now; they have had serious issues with new product launches and quality control recently, and it’s costing them a substantial amount of money. Pushing out more cars, without first addressing those issues,…

Sounds like it may be just about time to retract those farm subsidies.

So, I can’t give my girlfriend eggs for Valentine’s Day now?

Being a douche running a company is not the answer. We’ve already got that, Tesla.

Hell, take 1 person from each of the ‘26 concept teams and put them on a “Process Improvement” team. 95% of the concept work gets thrown out anyways.

Oh yeah, “product guys” always start by laying off engineers. Also a great way to improve quality. Sure.

Shareholders love bean counters, but have a soft spot for engineers too. They make the best fall guys when things go bad. 

Was just about to post that very same thing, its just plain corporate  greed.

because there’s too many execs making decisions because they can, without having an understanding of why, and just telling the engineers to do it anyways. See also Developers vs Publishers for videogames. 

Flu, schmoo. This is profiteering.

Here’s a concept, Produce more vehicles. Seeing a headline like “next year’s car is already sold out” is a good indicator that you maybe aren’t making enough product.

The problem probably isn’t the engineers, but rather all of the different management teams who give the engineers ridiculous, conflicting directions and requirements.