Ford delays start of full production of electric pickup at Tennessee factory
Just The News | June 13, 2024 | Kevin Killough

Originally, Ford had said in 2021 that it would start production in 2025.

Full production at a Ford EV factory in west Tennessee that was to deliver the company’s F150 Lightning electric pickup truck is being delayed.

State Sen. Page Walley, a Republican, told the “Tennessee Outlook” full production of the vehicle line was being pushed back by nine months as a result of a “read on the economy.”

Ford said in 2021 that it would start production in 2025. Now the electric pickup trucks aren’t expected to be delivered to dealerships until 2026, according to the “Outlook.”

Ford lost $132,000 on each electric vehicle it sold in the first quarter of this year, and according to reports, the company cut orders from its battery suppliers as production plans are scaled back.

SF-based Wells Fargo fires employees for allegedly using keyboards to fake work
San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com | June 13, 2024 | Stephen Council

Wells Fargo, the San Francisco-based banking giant, has fired a small group of employees who allegedly tampered with their computers to fake the appearance of working.

The company’s St. Louis-based subsidiary, Wells Fargo Clearing Services, filed five disclosures with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority saying that it had fired workers in early May. Each disclosure said the worker was “discharged after review of allegations involving simulation of keyboard activity creating impression of active work.”

Bloomberg, which first reported the firings on Thursday, wrote that “more than a dozen” employees were fired from Wells Fargo’s wealth and investment management arm. SFGATE only found the five disclosures, along with another saying that a worker had voluntarily resigned in April, after the allegations.

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It’s unclear from the disclosures exactly how the workers may have simulated “keyboard activity,” but it would likely be an effort to dupe their bosses while working remotely. During the early pandemic, mouse “jigglers” and automatic button-pressers became newly valuable to work-from-home employees who wanted to keep their accounts “online” even when away from their desks, according to Bloomberg.

… There will be a highly-publicized shooting involving a bump stock before this presidential campaign season is over. Perhaps even before the “debates” are over.

The perpetrator will probably already have been under surveillance by the FBI.

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“Not to worry, folks. I’ve got a little gizmo here which will obviate the problem.”