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The Crash of Two Airplanes and the Crisis at Boeing
FLYING BLIND The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing By Peter Robison (www.nytimes.com) Más...Same CEO and board mindset at the Big Three automakers that mostly caused their downfall. If it could be removed,including engineers and highest paid blue collar workers. Managers were rewarded for getting rid of people, not improving the process or the product.
Same Perp that led Boeing went to Ford Motor Co. Same results.
Very well written article... Everyone should read it. - Thanks for Sharing.
It will be an interesting read because it is not agreement with what my father's cousin told me. He began with Boeing out of University in 1940's and was terminated in 1974 with the SST program. He then bounced around west coast ending up as partner in contract engineering on B2 for Northrup. He said none of the companies had respect for engineers - they were commodity. I followed in his path as an engineer but his advice to my generation was go into something else - his son in business. He had little respect for Boeing and how they felt about engineers - 50 years ago.
I believe it. At my former company an experienced Senior Unix System Admin was told by management “you can be replaced by an offshore $10/hr Unix Admin”. At a lot of companies the only respect is for employees that generate income. I never thought I would see that attitude towards engineers though but I shouldn’t be surprised.
I work in software and heard a senior manager once say that the developers' (computer programmers) skills were just a commodity. What a fool. The software literally doesn't exist with those engineers just like the planes don't fly without aviation engineers. People like this are the worst kind to have in management and unfortunately they're all over the place and apparently drink from the same water source of something because they all come up with the most horrible ideas that should get them fired but ends up always getting others fired.