Ford lays off 700 who were building electric version of F-150 | CNN Business::Ford is laying off about 700 workers who build the F-150 Lightning, the electric version of its best-selling pickup truck, and unlike other recent layoffs this one has nothing to do with the ongoing strike by the United Auto Workers union.

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    1 year ago

    I love how the OP said Ford never took a bailout, you reply confirming that, and OP gets downvoted into oblivion.

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      I love how the OP said Ford never took a bailout, you reply confirming that, and OP gets downvoted into oblivion.

      Welcome to Lemmy. I swear this place is worse than Reddit at reading comprehension and mob-mentality downvoting.

      • bitwaba@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I don’t really know what’s going on so I’m just gonna downvote everyone just in case.

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        I’ve found the same, but that it really depends on the topic.

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      They didn’t confirm that Ford didn’t receive a bailout just that Ford didn’t participate in TARP. Ford took a $7B government loan in 2009 and didn’t even finish repaying it until last year. GM took their $8B bailout in 2009 and repaid it all in 2010.

      https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2020/07/29/ford-government-loan-department-energy-debt/5526413002/

      I love all the high-horse “downvoting, mob-mentality, poor reading comprehension” comments in this thread when none of these people bothered to do more than read a single comment and click one link before assuming they had a full understanding of the facts.

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        1 year ago

        Right there is the difference between Lemmy and Reddit!

        Lemmy: 15 downvotes to oblivion

        Reddit: Hold my beer!

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          Yeah, I guess there is a pretty significant population difference between the two. Sorry, I’m a new convert from Reddit xD