Boeing to axe 17,000 jobs amid strike and quality concerns

[Watawattana]

Just read this.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevypzd9gklo 

 

There's nothing better to engender confidence in the flying public, aircraft purchasers and investors than culling 10% of your workforce amid "quality concerns".  An ex-employer of mine's Finance team culled a shed load of engineers to 'save money', leaving few to do the contracted work.  And the CEO vetoed the legitimate concerns of the Engineering Director.  Guess what?  The company lost most of its overseas business as a result and is trying/failing to start again.  Idiots.

 

Yup, there's a strike, but why kill your company by failing to meaningfully negotiate (but not cave)?  Seems the crazy macho management of before has passed on their craziness to the new bunch.  I'm sure the union are all angels of course.  

 

All this, just as the Chinese have launched a new aircraft (Comac C919), with orders starting to roll in.  The Chinese will be laughing their narrow bodies in the aisles, and in a few years the wide bodies might be laughing too.  

 

C'mon Boeing!  Don't remove yourself from the marketplace through ignorance, stupid arrogant male behaviours, ignoring your senior engineers and their years of safety experience and ignoring the competition!