I’ve worked in the warehouse and in corporate and I believe that the whse people could run the office, but there is no way that the corporate a-holes could run a warehouse/manufacturing. Or even make a box for that case.
The overpaid thinker who daintly clips his fingernails all day long will freak out. All the arse kissers won’t know how to look up. Or how to drive a pallet jack.
Yeah there is no way someone who manages material acquisition and production schedules would be smart enough to move pallets from one location to another
I don’t know what it’s like at Ford or really at any manufacturer these days since I am retired. But my first job out of college was with the world’s largest manufacturer of electronic connectors and associated crimping and application machinery. I worked in Engineering Systems as a white collar employee in IT. I loved going out on factory floors and working, so did the engineers because they designed everything on the floor. We had good relationships with factory workers because our job was to make them more productive. We did their jobs so we knew exactly what they did for a living and they were pretty open about how they really did their jobs (not by the manual) and had ideas how things could be improved. But then it wasn’t a unionized shop.