Did Swampy kill himself? I dunno for certain of course, but I do remember a Boeing Whistle-blower “suicided” recently and it must have been Swampy.
Sad how a once great company that built the planes that won WW2 has decided that knowledge is not needed...The old guys know things—feell thinkgs—smell things when its wrong...and one only gets that experience by experience. Its passed along to the up and coming through the years...
I read the whole article and it was pretty straight forward—perhaps its “progressiveness” was that it favored the little guy—the union guy with years of experience after building planes for decades versus the Corporate Profit types.
There was no “solution” posited that I read. If I missed it, please let me know. But it seemed to knock profits over product reliability—which is not a left or right issue—or shouldn’t be anyway.
“The old guys know things—feell thinkgs—smell things when its wrong...”
A mentor once described it to me as “tribal knowledge”. You strive to document as much as you can, but much of it is just distilled experience.
Manager types hate that. They want everyone EXCEPT THEMSELVES to be replaceable components.