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>> Management has applied heavy pressure to my friend repeatedly to not report these incidents, despite his legal obligation. Yeah, the idea is to have managem
by phkahler 5y ago
>> Management has applied heavy pressure to my friend repeatedly to not report these incidents, despite his legal obligation.
Yeah, the idea is to have management put pressure on the people who left stuff in bad shape. Shooting the messenger isn't the right answer.
- posguy 5y agoShooting the messenger seems to be Boeing tradition of the last decade. When I was a kid, half the parents I knew worked at Boeing and were proud of the quality engineering or manufacturing they did, but over the past two decades Boeing has had this crew retire and has worked to shift to a blame the messenger culture.
- FabHK 5y agoThere's this documentary on Netflix that also notes the cultural shift, and largely blames it on the 1997 acquisition of McDonnell-Douglas, and the subsequent shift, roughly speaking, from an engineering-dominated culture to an MBA-dominated culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall:_The_Case_Against_Boeing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall:_The_Case_Against_Boe...