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No, it's about Boeing having changed from a culture of quality to one of shareholder value after the McDonnell Douglas merger. Stock buybacks rather than investment in R&D. Cutting corners everywhere. Subcontractors subcontracting. Employees saying they wouldn't ride on the planes they're building. Boeing inspecting itself. John Oliver did a great piece on it.
Something happens to a plane, so let’s blame blacks and women now?
Most of these STEM type jobs have grueling schooling with minimum 80% pass rates. I personally went through one of the toughest ones where 50% of the class was Asian and about 25% were white. Two smartest were black. One got blown to bits in Afghanistan.
Some of you have zero idea what your talking about…
No, it's about Boeing having changed from a culture of quality to one of shareholder value after the McDonnell Douglas merger. Stock buybacks rather than investment in R&D. Cutting corners everywhere. Subcontractors subcontracting. Employees saying they wouldn't ride on the planes they're building. Boeing inspecting itself. John Oliver did a great piece on it.
You're spot on. Blaming DEI is misguided, at least in this instance. The decline began with the McD merger and the corporate policies of McNearney.
This is now the second issue involving United Airlines planes in two days. And within the month Boeing had the engine on fire in Miami and the door blow off on the Alaska Airlines flight. I wonder how many of these flight crews, mechanics and engineers are being hired based on their race, gender and sexual orientation instead of qualifications??? United is especially proud of DEI and wokeness saying half of their pilots must be black or female within the next 5 years. We are already seeing the results.
Its one thing to hire an affirmative action cashier, totally different for a pilot, aircraft mechanic, doctor, or defense secretary. I hate this, especially being a minority myself, but I would feel more comfortable on a plane flown by a white or Asian male pilot same with being in the hospital with doctors because at least I know they got the job based on their qualifications.
Yep, now that DEI tribalism has supplanted meritocracy, we're going to see a downgrade in safety and expertise in many areas.
Unfortunately all the major airlines have some kind of DEI program/policy. It is like the latest virtue signaling trend and the pressure to follow is too strong.
I swear I don't know why more older black and Latino professionals have not protested against DEI. I know that some have, but I think many more of them should -- even though that would probably take quite a bit of courage.
There is no way to protest against DEI in many workplaces.
Only one opinion on the matter is allowed, and that is full acceptance.
If you try to go against DEI, then your employer will simply find an excuse to terminate your employment.
Just like everything the Left initiates, e.g. defund the police, open borders, bail reform, no prosecution of theft under $____, etc., we just have to find out the hard way that it will only lead to failure before they will quietly move away from it or in many cases, claim they were never for it.
American corporations better realize that when their BS DEI starts to get people killed, they, not the idiots they hired, will be blamed.
As for Boeing, they better wake the freak up, like yesterday, and get their QC situation under control. If they’re outsourcing critical component to the lowest overseas bidder, than I hope this once great American corporation fades away and is only a memory of their once great, but now, long gone glory days of the B-17s, B-29s, B-52s, and their once king of the skies 747s are clearly over. Now, flying in a Boeing aircraft is no more safer than flying in a Chinese commercial airliner AND that is a pretty shaky experience!!
I guess it’s only a matter of time before people start to refuse to fly in a Boeing aircraft, that is being flown by some less qualified DEI hire.
If that were true (and I'm not arguing that it's not) than these corporations would be doing everything possible to clean up their act and improve their nosediving reputations. What paying customer wants to ride around in aircraft that have wheels and doors falling off mid flight????
You are describing a time long gone. Look around you and you will see plenty of examples (cars, appliances, consumer products) of products and companies that are willing to churn out lower quality products for increased profit. Even our hospital systems are not above risking poor outcomes and death to improve profits and are more than willing to cut corners to make that happen or reduce staff to dangerous levels.
Boeing has the US by the balls given how few aircraft makers we have. Boeing is basically a too big to fail company for the US government so Boeing has been allowed to cut corners and do self inspections because their one of very few aircraft makers for the US military and private plane market in the US.
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