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'I never plan to fly on it': Boeing workers blow whistle on 787 plant
When Boeing broke ground on its new factory near Charleston in 2009, the plant was trumpeted as a state-of-the-art manufacturing hub, building one of the most advanced aircraft in the world. But (www.smh.com.au) Plus d'info...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Unions or no unions, there is a corporate culture that doesn't respect employee's for coming forward with problems. It seems to be at all employment levels within the company. Every single business in the world will have a problem at some point. It's how you handle them that separates the great businesses from mediocre. Boeing is now below mediocre. It's killing people. When stuff like this happens in the military, they do a stand-down. Time for Boeing to do a stand-down and take a good hard look at itself.
Why is this a big news story now? I saw a documentary years ago on the 787 and its "shoddy" workmanship. Yet I see them fly over my house every day. Apparently someone over at Boeing knows what their doing. There's 148 of 'em in the air right now.
So these fools sat back, cashed their Boeing checks and said nothing? They were a chief cause of the problem.
The report indicates workers reported problems which were then ignored. Some workers were even punished.
One day, someone will be able to look back and pinpoint exactly when "If it's not Boeing, I'm not going" became "WTF happened at Boeing?" They have problems all the way from the shop floor to the executive suites. Not everybody at each level, but every level needs a big change in its culture and how it's failing far too often in recent years.
Check back here in no more than ten years to see if this came true: I think Boeing will be sold or merged if they can't find some really good people to take over and fix things because they simply cannot continue the way they've been doing things.
Check back here in no more than ten years to see if this came true: I think Boeing will be sold or merged if they can't find some really good people to take over and fix things because they simply cannot continue the way they've been doing things.
It started when Mcdonald-Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money and infiltrated all the employees from them to Boeing. It included their failed practices, which they believed they could do it right eventually.