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The reason they didn't expand in Washington is because Boeing engineers are unionized in Seattle. They are also shifting production of manufacturing to South Carolina.
The South Carolina plant has had a lot of trouble with the 787. The workers in Washington state building the same plane have been much more productive. The new 777-x will be built in Washington. One of the losing states was South Carolina, along with Missouri and California.
And, own your post. You want to denigrate the hick, rural "beaver hunter" n'est ce pas? The kind of person that built this county. What was the point of the "beaver hunter" reference otherwise? If you're going to engage in bigotry, why not be upfront and straightforward about it?
Man up Nothing wrong with hunting. The point still escapes you.
CA the engineering capital of the world? Hardly. The only engineers who would be stupid enough to agree with that would be the ones who live there.
Yes, CA is a high tech state, a bit of a mecca as a matter of fact. Here are some examples most people have heard of: Oracle, Gateway, Apple, Northrop Grumman, DirecTV, Sun Microsystems, EBay, Facebook, Western Digital, Cisco, Google, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Yahoo, Tesla, Netflix, Adobe Systems just to name a few. Yes, software engineers are engineers too.
Yes, CA is a high tech state, a bit of a mecca as a matter of fact. Here are some examples most people have heard of: Oracle, Gateway, Apple, Northrop Grumman, DirecTV, Sun Microsystems, EBay, Facebook, Western Digital, Cisco, Google, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Yahoo, Tesla, Netflix, Adobe Systems just to name a few. Yes, software engineers are engineers too.
That's great ...but not relevant to this particular thread. But still great. Good job. We're all winners.
If Halliburton, Exxon or Baker Hughes added 1000 engineering jobs would you be asking why they didn't hire them in CA?
Seriously, this weak CA vs TX trolling is ignorant and pathetic.
Boeing has a small presence in Tennessee and almost 5,000 employees in Texas - so yes Boeing IS located in both of those states. Having said that, Boeing's presence in California is much much larger - and that has been the case for decades (and was especially the case after the Boeing/McDonald-Douglas merger). Boeing currently has over 18,000 employees in California.
They went from Washington State to California. Why not Tennessee or Texas?
Because Boeing has infrastructure that already exists in southern Callifornia - i.e. they don't have to start all over establishing a presence in a new state.
Another priority may be their engineers having a full set of teeth.
Looks like they'll need to steer clear of most of CA too then.
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Nothing wrong with hunting. The point still escapes you.
Hardly. The only engineers who would be stupid enough to agree with that would be the ones who live there.
