They call it “Boeing” because that’s the sound they hope the plane makes when it hits the ground.
1. Boeing became dysfunctional when “managers” started running the place instead of engineers.
2. Boeing lost control of production when “management” moved to Chicago.
Used to be when there was a problem the engineers running the place could just walk over to the production buildings and have a look. No more....
If someone wants to tell me that Boeing is the worst of the worst, I won’t argue.
But Boeing is definitely not unique. I know that some — and I’m guessing ALL — defense contractors are on the exact same path.
When Boeing hired a woman I knew for its corporate office, back in 1999, I had a hunch Boeing was downhill in future. This woman was biggest bull shixxer without any depth. But she was very friendly.
This was followed by a management team that should be selling laundry detergent instead of aircraft. Frankly the Boeing ship of was steered into the reef by
They had hundreds of planes, built inside the same time frames, that flew without any safety issues at all.
In my opinion, the Ethiopia crash and the Indonesia crash were caused by the negligence, or by the deliberate acts, of two, or more, of the four Muslim pilots.
The emergency door blow out in 2024 was bad luck, plus still unexplained negligence.
The cost to Boeing has been a financial catastrophe.
$20 billion in fines and law suits.
1,200 canceled plane orders.
They need to take a few lessons from Toyota. They sound like they’re a long way from a TQM (”total quality management”) environment. I’m frankly surprised that they haven’t built that into every aspect of their corporate culture.