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What's happened at Boeing is so remarkably systemic it really needs a book length detailed treatment. I hope one is coming. The entire company seems to have be
by api 2y ago
What's happened at Boeing is so remarkably systemic it really needs a book length detailed treatment. I hope one is coming.
The entire company seems to have been absolutely utterly gutted.
- hdhshdhshdjd 2y agoIt’s the same for pretty much everything across the board: the “got mine” generation thinks they can take all the wealth and resources with them to the grave, leave us with the PFAS, climate change, gutted social safety net, destroyed companies, and the truth is they’ll be dead before the bill comes due.
- matthewdgreen 2y ago"Got mine" generation is definitely part of it, but demanding N% returns from an economy that has GDP growth of (N/2)% (and a lot of that just paper wealth from the finance industry) is the more proximate cause.
- _hcuq 2y agoIt's not a generation, it's a type of person and a cultural attitude. The majority of older people own nothing and had no say in the running of the world.
- lawlessone 2y ago>The majority of older people own nothing and had no say in the running of the world. What's sad is many of those that got shafted will still defend what's happened.
- hdhshdhshdjd 2y agoReagan carried 49 of 50 states in 1984. The vast majority of the problems we see today are rooted in Reaganism. On the other side of the pond the same generation of voters gutted the UK under Thatcher, then sacrificed their children and grandchildren at the altar of Brexit. The generation who destroyed the social safety their parents gave them is on the hook for this, even if the majority of them also get to enjoy the fruits of their decisions.
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- corinroyal 2y agoWow. That IS a dumb take. Have you even seen the board?
- api 2y agoI've seen this claim around but IMHO this is an attempt to spew smoke and blame-shift. Check out the board and C-suite. It ain't that diverse. What I've heard is that they cleaned house of everyone who "made too much" (meaning the senior people), outsourced a lot, did the usual MBA-style hollowing out maneuver. If DEI played any role it was as a lame excuse to cut down all the tall poppies and avoid age discrimination or union objections. The real motive would have been to dump all the people whose salaries were too high and replace them with fresh out of college or offshore workers.
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoThe whole idea of DEI is that there are competent people that have been overlooked because of extraneous factors. If you have evidence that this led to hiring incompetent people you should probably provide it.
- Sohcahtoa82 2y ago> I’m probably gonna get banned for this Not likely, it seems it takes a LOT to get banned from HN. But still, the assumption that every non-white person hired is a "diversity" hire before even looking at their qualifications is incredibly racist.
- nullserver 2y ago[flagged]
- exe34 2y agothey must have been really desperate, from the little you've told us here. edit: sorry dang.
- ChainOfFools 2y agoHow much of this issue (specifically affecting the spaceflight project), if any, do you think was instigated from talent being lured away?
- btgeekboy 2y agoThis one’s been on my wishlist for a bit: Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
- rootusrootus 2y ago> systemic That's overselling it a bit. The Boeing Defense, Space, & Security company is owned by Boeing, but it's a separate organization with its own CEO. Maybe there are problems, but assuming they are the same problems that Boeing Commercial Airplanes has is a stretch.