Is this sabotage of affirmative action at work?
Maybe it is not sabotage, and maybe it’s not affirmative action. Both of those are possible, but it is more likely that Boeing is now being led by accountants and not engineers, and a renewed focus on cost cutting has resulted a shift from top-notch quality control with unfortunate consequences.
It is crazy that more and more American companies are making inane DEI choices, and it’s easy to place blame on such choices for wings falling off and the milk boiling over, but proper attribution analysis would show that many of the issues started when Boeing shifted to an ‘enhanced profitability’ approach years back.Unlike Airbus, which is (literally) led by an engineer, when you have ‘financial types’ leading an airline they will always try and save costs.
That can come with dire consequences.
But it’s easier to claim it’s affirmative action (which, as a black man who has made it in life without the need of such useless crutches, I deeply detest). Makes everyone concur, all the blame is placed there, and then another Boeing plane loses a wheel or a door or its ability to maintain level flight (!!!) and the song and dance goes on.
When it is all about VERY poor leadership at Boeing.