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allegro said:
Now I'm no tin foil hat type but....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534703
Kate did it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534703
miniman said:
allegro said:
Now I'm no tin foil hat type but....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534703
Kate did it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534703
allegro said:
Now I'm no tin foil hat type but....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534703
Very sad! I can see in any investigation, if there has been recent communication between him and those at Boeing...?!https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534703
rjfp1962 said:
"We investigated and found it was due to an accident".And the whistleblower shot himself.........
Enlightening article about the current culture at Boeing, based on the reports by John "Swampy" Barnett, the quality inspector manager who "suicided" himself...
Suicide Mission: What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
Suicide Mission: What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
article said:
Few quality managers were as stubborn as Swampy. A Seattle Times story detailed an internal Boeing document boasting that the incidence of manufacturing defects on the 787 had plunged 20 percent in a single year, which inspectors anonymously attributed to the “bullying environment” in which defects had systematically “stopped being documented” by inspectors. They weren’t fooling customers: Qatar Airways had become so disgusted with the state of the planes it received from Charleston that it refused to accept them, and even inspired the Qatar-owned Al Jazeera to produce a withering documentary called Broken Dreams, in which an employee outfitted with a hidden camera chitchatted with mechanics and inspectors about the planes they were producing. “They hire these people off the street, dude … f
king flipping burgers for a living, making sandwiches at Subway,” one mechanic marveled of his colleagues; another regaled the narrator with tales of co-workers who came to work high on “coke and painkillers and weed” because no one had ever had a urine test. Asked if they would fly the 787 Dreamliner; just five of 15 answered yes, and even the positive responses did Boeing no favors: “I probably would, but I have kind of a death wish, too.”
The day after Broken Dreams premiered, Swampy got an email informing him that he’d been put on a 60-day corrective action plan four weeks earlier. His alleged offense constituted using email to communicate about process violations; the HR file noted, fictitiously, that his boss had discussed his “infraction” with him earlier.
Swampy was no fool. “Leadership wants nothing in email so they maintain plausible deniability,” he wrote in the “comments” space on his corrective action plan paperwork.
king flipping burgers for a living, making sandwiches at Subway,” one mechanic marveled of his colleagues; another regaled the narrator with tales of co-workers who came to work high on “coke and painkillers and weed” because no one had ever had a urine test. Asked if they would fly the 787 Dreamliner; just five of 15 answered yes, and even the positive responses did Boeing no favors: “I probably would, but I have kind of a death wish, too.”The day after Broken Dreams premiered, Swampy got an email informing him that he’d been put on a 60-day corrective action plan four weeks earlier. His alleged offense constituted using email to communicate about process violations; the HR file noted, fictitiously, that his boss had discussed his “infraction” with him earlier.
Swampy was no fool. “Leadership wants nothing in email so they maintain plausible deniability,” he wrote in the “comments” space on his corrective action plan paperwork.
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