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My father was laid off last February when Fisker did their first round of layoffs on the east coast. What a terribly run company, which is sad, because the car

My father was laid off last February when Fisker did their first round of layoffs on the east coast. What a terribly run company, which is sad, because the car really did look good (from some angles...)

tptacek 14y ago
I know nothing at all about them. What made them terribly run? Thanks!
- pmorici 14y ago
  For starters their vehicles had a reputation for spontaneously combusting... http://www.autoblog.com/2012/08/19/fisker-karma-cooling-fan-fire-voluntary-recall/ http://www.autoblog.com/2012/08/19/fisker-karma-cooling-fan-...
  - hkmurakami 14y ago
    Well don't Ferraris have that reputation too? :P
- jasongill 14y ago
  They wanted to be a fresh and new car company, but ended up just hiring industry insiders with the same lumbering mindset of General Motors. Add more managers and executives to make things better, not more people who actually know what their doing. My father was head of distribution with 30+ years of experience under his belt taking cars from foreign countries and seeing them all the way through to the dealers. He was one of the first to be let go last year, which left them with no one who knew how to do customs forms, how to get cars off the boat and then prepare them for ground transport and sale, etc. If you can't move your product around (or even get it in to the country), you won't have much success. Hurricane Sandy slammed the port where hundreds of Fisker Karmas, some of which were already sold to customers, were trapped due to no one knowing how to get them moved or out of customs. 320 were destroyed in the resulting fires due to salt water getting in to the high voltage system. Simply having someone who was even mildly familiar with the process of getting cars handled at the port and on to truck or rail could have prevented that, but instead, the cars just sat for months after my father was let go. Obviously my story is just a personal one, but from what I've heard from other ex-Fisker employees, basically every department was ruined this way, too.

tptacek 14y ago

I know nothing at all about them. What made them terribly run? Thanks!

pmorici 14y ago
For starters their vehicles had a reputation for spontaneously combusting... http://www.autoblog.com/2012/08/19/fisker-karma-cooling-fan-fire-voluntary-recall/ http://www.autoblog.com/2012/08/19/fisker-karma-cooling-fan-...
- hkmurakami 14y ago
  Well don't Ferraris have that reputation too? :P
jasongill 14y ago
They wanted to be a fresh and new car company, but ended up just hiring industry insiders with the same lumbering mindset of General Motors. Add more managers and executives to make things better, not more people who actually know what their doing. My father was head of distribution with 30+ years of experience under his belt taking cars from foreign countries and seeing them all the way through to the dealers. He was one of the first to be let go last year, which left them with no one who knew how to do customs forms, how to get cars off the boat and then prepare them for ground transport and sale, etc. If you can't move your product around (or even get it in to the country), you won't have much success. Hurricane Sandy slammed the port where hundreds of Fisker Karmas, some of which were already sold to customers, were trapped due to no one knowing how to get them moved or out of customs. 320 were destroyed in the resulting fires due to salt water getting in to the high voltage system. Simply having someone who was even mildly familiar with the process of getting cars handled at the port and on to truck or rail could have prevented that, but instead, the cars just sat for months after my father was let go. Obviously my story is just a personal one, but from what I've heard from other ex-Fisker employees, basically every department was ruined this way, too.