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Ford bans competitors' vehicles from lot

http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/27/news/companies/ford_parkinglot/index.htm?cnn=yes



That's an interesting motivation. "Drive what you make, or you have to park across the street".

If someone put a requirement like this on you in your workplace (you had to use whatever your company produces, rather than a competitor), would you follow it or quit?

GM has been doing that here for years.

If you drive a Ford/Chrysler you park in the back where nobody on the street can see it.

You won't be driving a foreign car so we don't have to make rules for that.

So you don't mind the small loss of freedom? Sure, it's the company parking lot in this example...logically it makes sense that they can do what they want with it.

But come on...the message is pretty clear: Buy our product or you aren't welcome here. Imagine working at McDonalds and being told that if you wanted to eat a non-McDonalds lunch, you had to go across the street.

What if you drive a motorcycle to work? Ford doesn't make motorcycles.

I'm a Dodge guy myself.



Well that's part of the point...diversity is discouraged. You can't use anything that might be *better* than the product your company produces. Dana if Alla required you all to wear an Official Allakhazam Uniform to work, would you?



Isn't GM going out of business too?

Isn't GM going out of business too? [/quote]

Both Ford and GM are sucking furiously and hemorraging money. Apparently GM's high end models like Cadillac and Hummer have been problem prone for the last couple years and they have been giving the owners the run around. Not the best thing to do with high end customers who will just dump vehicle and go buy a Lexus/BMW/Mercedes where the dealership treats them like royalty.

Loss of freedom? I think you are looking into this a little too deep. Most (emphasis on most) company policies have some sort of reason behind them other than to urk you.

Ford would rather promote their product, and what better way to do so if they can get their employees to drive their product. It helps the guy selling the car to the customer if he can happily say "I happen to drive this particular model" versus "Well, Ford sucks which is why the majority of the employees here wouldn't be caught dead in one."

Also, if you really think you can eat BK at a McDonald's in plain sight view of customers, you are very naive. They make employees eating non-mcdonald's food eat in the back, while employees eating their own product can sit up front. ((Friend of mine is a manager at McDonald's.))

They did this with the old GM plant in Syracuse till 10-15 years ago when they moved out, pretty stupid if you ask me, but then again they could catch some new customers that are too lazy to walk from another parking lot each day.

What does an Alla's uniform look like. Is it a genie type thing?

Can non-employees buy them?

LIES!



I understand that, but you achieve more with an incentive rather than a threat. This is a "buy our own product or else" situation. Employees likely already receive a discount on Ford Vehicles, among other incentives. If those aren't enough to convince the employees themselves to buy Ford, then obviously there are larger problems with the actual product you are producing...in which case something like this would likely have the opposite effect.

Sure, it would be cool for the company if someone looks over to the parking lot and sees all Ford Vehicles...but what happens when they look over and see an empty parking lot because people would rather park elsewhere than go Ford?



True, not the best example .

I was thinking something more like this.

Edited, Fri Jan 27 14:45:18 2006 by Stunted

Note they did not state the condition the Ford had to be in? If I was forced to not ride my motorcycle into work, I'd go to the wreckers and buy a really **** *** looking Ford beater and drive that into work until they let me ride my motorcycle.

Bikers park where they want, not where people tell us to.

Darkflame lent me her extra allakhazam.com tshirt for a Fan Faire... I want to steal that from her again, it's great. Every so often I walked by someone in public and they did a doubletake.