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It didn't always used to be this way - at one point Boeing delivered planes that were substantially safer than their competitors. Moving the HQ to Chicago was

It didn't always used to be this way - at one point Boeing delivered planes that were substantially safer than their competitors. Moving the HQ to Chicago was a terrible idea. Companies like boeing should be managed by engineers not salespeople.

kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
It's hard to keep a mistress when she lives in the same city as your wife.
- tastygreenapple 7y ago
  What does this even mean? Boeing has one job - making airliners that don't fall out of the sky. People have been putting planes in the air for over 100 years, it should be getting safer and easier to do so each year but apparently not. Boeing is failing at their one job.
  - kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
    Former CEO Phil Condit opened the Chicago office at least in part so he could have his secretary/mistress shack up in a company provided apartment.
PhantomGremlin 7y ago
Companies like boeing should be managed by engineers not salespeople. Dennis Muilenburg, the Boeing CEO, is an engineer.[0] And he apparently doesn't even have an MBA. It's hard to know exactly how and when he became seduced by the dark side. Here's a summary (which I've posted before) of his egregiously bad behavior: Oct 29, 2018 Lion Air crash, 189 dead Nov 10, 2018 pilots already talking about Boeing emergency airworthiness directive related to MCAS[1] Mar 10, 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash kills 157 Mar 11, 2019 Boeing CEO "confident in 737 MAX safety"[2] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Muilenburg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Muilenburg [1] https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/614857-indonesian-aircraft-missing-off-jakarta-49.html#post10307740 https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/614857-indonesian-aircra... [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/ethiopia-airplane-boeing-ceo/boeing-ceo-confident-in-737-max-safety-after-second-deadly-crash-idUSKBN1QS2PJ https://www.reuters.com/article/ethiopia-airplane-boeing-ceo...
- tastygreenapple 7y ago
  The last CEO, James McNerney, was some Yale B.A dude with a Harvard MBA. The 737 MAX is fruit of the poison tree.

kevin_thibedeau 7y ago

It's hard to keep a mistress when she lives in the same city as your wife.

tastygreenapple 7y ago
What does this even mean? Boeing has one job - making airliners that don't fall out of the sky. People have been putting planes in the air for over 100 years, it should be getting safer and easier to do so each year but apparently not. Boeing is failing at their one job.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
  Former CEO Phil Condit opened the Chicago office at least in part so he could have his secretary/mistress shack up in a company provided apartment.

PhantomGremlin 7y ago

Companies like boeing should be managed by engineers not salespeople. Dennis Muilenburg, the Boeing CEO, is an engineer.[0] And he apparently doesn't even have an MBA. It's hard to know exactly how and when he became seduced by the dark side. Here's a summary (which I've posted before) of his egregiously bad behavior: Oct 29, 2018 Lion Air crash, 189 dead Nov 10, 2018 pilots already talking about Boeing emergency airworthiness directive related to MCAS[1] Mar 10, 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash kills 157 Mar 11, 2019 Boeing CEO "confident in 737 MAX safety"[2] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Muilenburg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Muilenburg [1] https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/614857-indonesian-aircraft-missing-off-jakarta-49.html#post10307740 https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/614857-indonesian-aircra... [2] https://www.reuters.com/article/ethiopia-airplane-boeing-ceo/boeing-ceo-confident-in-737-max-safety-after-second-deadly-crash-idUSKBN1QS2PJ https://www.reuters.com/article/ethiopia-airplane-boeing-ceo...

tastygreenapple 7y ago
The last CEO, James McNerney, was some Yale B.A dude with a Harvard MBA. The 737 MAX is fruit of the poison tree.