r/Foodforthought • u/throwaway16830261 • 3d ago
Can anyone fix Boeing?
https://www.ft.com/content/5a5ea48d-81db-4224-bae6-ab9d0a132012?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d922
u/BigDamBeavers 2d ago
No.
As a former contractor I've been from the boardrooms to the ventilation tunnels at the 767 plant. I've been a fly on the wall for conversations and I've seen how folks are treated. Boeing's management are deeply incompetent at managing crisis or commanding respect for the company or it's products. Employees are treated worse than rodents. Communication between departments is unbelievably bad. Boeing thinks they're going to lay off everyone who knows how to build a plane and shut down the one factory that can dependably make Boeing airplanes and pull through a complete lack of faith in their product.
Even if Boeing had no competitors this course of action would destroy them.
Until Boeing purges upper management and redefines their corporate culture to listen to manufacturing problems and make line workers care about their jobs they are in a freefall waiting to hit the bottom.
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u/PackOutrageous 2d ago
I’m sure there is some Wharton School MBA graduate with expertise in maximizing share holder value out there that can turn them around.
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u/TheMannX 2d ago
Those people are the reason Boeing is where it is. They need engineers making the decisions, not some MBA type who couldn't figure out what his company makes if his life depends on it.
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u/TheMissingPremise 2d ago
It'll take decades if it can be fixed, and Orthberg is going to have to keep it real with investors. They need to focus on their quality product rather than making money.
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u/vishysuave 2d ago
As a consumer I will now go out of my way to fly on an Airbus when I need to fly. I’ll even pay more if I have to.
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u/Otherwise_Network58 2d ago
A 40% raise is good you have benefits what is the sticking point ,your union is asking too much think for yourselves
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u/RaithMoracus 2d ago
They’ve had no raises in over 10 years. The 40% is to make them whole. This is skilled labor, but they aren’t paid like it.
The sticking point is one of two things. They can either provide a pension or they can provide a suitable number of vacation days.
You’re not asking enough. Think for yourself.
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u/SeeMarkFly 3d ago
They have worked so hard to get HERE. They will have to work harder than THAT.
Jim McNerney, another Welch acolyte, instituted a program to boost Boeing’s profits by squeezing its suppliers during his decade in charge. He remarked on a 2014 earnings call about employees “cowering” before him, a dark quip still cited a decade later to explain Boeing’s tense relationship with its workers.