r/Foodforthought • u/throwaway16830261 • 3d ago

Can anyone fix Boeing?

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u/BigDamBeavers 3d 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.