Originally posted by sigma:
Ford, Toyota, GM, Honda, everyone has been doing this for decades. This isn't a new thing, it's been a rule, generally an unspoken one, at factories since competition began. It's never gone "to the next level". And it doesn't "force" employees to do anything, it rewards them if they do.


It's going to a next level if it was one thing one day and another thing the next -- as it is in this case with the parking policy to be implemented in the near future, whereas it would be different if it were a policy held in every Ford factory since they have been built.

I don't see it as true discrimination because employees do have the choice to purchase even the junkiest '88 Ford Escort and enjoy that better parking space. However, given that they are changing the policy to current employees I see it as almost punishing those who very recently purchased a non-Ford and are not able to get another car. The other issue at hand is the extent of the purchase -- a car is a huge investment to most people and not something that can be easily changed, much like if they had decided that people who lived in two-story homes wouldn't be allowed to use the parking lot.

Matthew
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