Like most neoliberal institutions, Boeing had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of “knowledge” that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of:
- intellectual property,
- trade secrets, and
- data,
discarding:
- “thought” and
- “understanding” and
- “complex reasoning”
possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce as essentially not worth the increased health care costs.
>>discarding:
>>“thought” and
>>“understanding” and
>>“complex reasoning”
>>possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce
Left unsaid is that a lot of those older engineers were white males. Much of the push to discard experience is so they can replace it with diversity.
When they moved corporate to Chicago, they were doomed.
Actually, it was probably when an accountant became CEO.
Sounds like they basically released Chainsaw Al on the company so the executives could makes even more $. Dave Calhoun got almost 33 million in 2023. In 2013 McNerney got 29 million.
The one they fired, Dennis Mullenburg got 62 million for his trashing of Boeing.
Reminds me of Sears when they got rid of all those old folks who knew every product the store sold. people like that went to work for Home Depot.
At a company I used to work at, the CEO proclaimed that “our employees are our biggest asset”.
To which I silently thought “An asset is something you own. You don’t own us, you are merely renting our expertise”. Boeing didn’t want to realize that.
DEI?