Now that Spacex has launched, if I were Boeing....

Youtube ^ | Dec 1, 2000? | United Air LInes

[Shark24]

“pockets of excellence” agree

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

What do you mean?

[DuncanWaring]

The airplane in the video is a Lockheed airplane (C-130), not a Boeing airplane.

[BereanBrain]

to quote the news media

“Fake but accurate”

[Tallguy]

The “Loyal Wingman” stealth drone looks particularly interesting.

[Starcitizen]

Boeing hires too many $9 Indian scabs from HCL Technologies (an Indian Body Shop)

Boeing firing Americans and replacing them with more Indian H1B scabs in rhe latest announcement this week.

F Boeing

[EQAndyBuzz]

Problem with Boeing is their workforce has not embraced change very well. Too much tribal knowledge amongst non-engineering work staff. The workforce reduction will make a financial difference, but until the organization accepts change, the culture will remain the same. This is a bandaid being put on a gunshot wound.

[IAGeezer912]

Us engineers in private industry would joke that a close approximation was close enough for government work.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Thats a Boeing B-17.I rebuild them for a living if you can believe that.

[DuncanWaring]

You may be right about it being a B-17 … wish there was a way to pause the video.

[aquila48]

The difference between Boeing and SpaceX, one is a plodding corporation with your typical CEO trying to make the next quarter, the other is a lean mean machine with a kickass visionary leader.

[BobL]

Once Boeing decided to NOT get their hand ‘dirty’ (meaning building things), their fate was sealed, as we see now.

Enron did the same, 20 years ago, and had the SAME FATE.

[Stanwood_Dave]

Not trying to be a smart a$$, but if you have a program, that will let you take a screen shot, Viola, there’s a pause in the video.

[Ozark Tom]

“They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work?”

[DuncanWaring]

Good idea.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.google.com/search?q=Darleen+A.+Druyun

[Yo-Yo]

Owner of company tells employees it is time to get back to basics. I worked at Boeing as a contractor from 2003 to 2012. Great company that has lost its edge.

Boeing lost not only their edge but their entire culture when they merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997 and moved their headquarters to Chicago in 2001.

McDonnell Douglas' culture took over.

[Shark24]

Having worked at Boeing for 9 years as a contractor, I believe they could reach out and hire 100 of their best employees that they have let go of in the last decade or so (I do not consider myself in that group) and they could recapture their heritage. Then pass if forward. Just my thoughts.