Fo Shizzle!
Key terms:
Root Cause
Security clearance hiccup
Most likely huge delays from the government conducting their background checks.
It's not like these folks were just pulled in offa da streets to pound some rivets - they HAD a clearance before!
I've had my driver's license expire, but that didn't suddenly mean that I lost my ability to steer, shift and brake.
Or that I felt a murderous urge to drive into crowds.
I represented a number of Boeing employees in trying to get their Yankee White clearances. The biggest problem for most of them was that they had used marijuana recreationally in a state where its use is perfectly legal.
So you would expect that this delay would cause production costs to increase. Are we back on the traditional cost-plus basis, or do Trump-era rules and pricing still apply?
How does a plane have an expired security clearance? 😎
How many were named “Mohammad”?
Need to haul those planes to the breaker yard and start all over again.
This is what happens when there are no consequences in corporate culture.
Boeing executives got away - literally - with murder.
Why should they give a rat about problematic personnel problems?
Well, it’s just not fair that some people to have security clearance and others not.!
So, you do a little dope, so what.!!
If it’s Boeing, I ain’t going.
Wonder if they had been greasing the stairs. :)
The security crap has gotten out of control.
They are hyper sensitive and super strict in some aspects, but then it doesn’t even apply to folks in Congress, appointed officials that run these organizations, or they give waivers out left and right for folks in top positions that would fail a “basic” background check...
The entire security system in the US is a joke.
One simple and obvious example should make this clear to you.
Do you think a pot smoking, cocaine snorting, guy with associates that are communists or even members of terrorist organizations would ever get a clearance? Yet that man was the Commander in Chief for 8 years, Barrack Hussein Obama.
Do you think he had a full background done? A polygraph? Bla bla bla?
All these idiotic rules only apply to the simple and low people. Do you know where most of these leaks to the media are? They are from the staffers in Congress, or top senior level officials intentionally leaking things to influence the political landscape: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/29/politics/james-comey-ig-report/index.html
“We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.” LEONA HELMSLEY (the same goes for clearances and all this security junk)
It’s all gotten out of hand, like so many other things where a bureaucracy goes unbridled/unchecked and simply creates more and more policies.
I have an idea. Hope those guys do a good job and actually ensure the plane doesn’t come apart in flight, rather than make sure that they all are in good credit standing, didn’t have an angry ex make accusations of domestic violence, they didn’t smoke pot in the last 6 months, or default on a federal government subsidized student loan (the sort of idiotic junk that gets most peoples clearances pulled but has zero bearing in how they do their job in reality)...