Nope , Diversity Destroys
Once again the Jack Welch model eats another company.
Yes. DEI was just piling on.
The same thing happened when Allied Signal bought Honeywell.
The CIA and FBI rigging the TWA 800 investigation against Boeing probably had nothing to do with future coincidences...
I’d pretty much say it was Starbucks, Seattle Sleaze, leftist Democrat government and the push for quotas>Affirmative Action> DEI and now FGI. AND the unions.
Nope. Boeing was always a beancounter company. FIL worked there from the 50’s to the 70’s. He said it was always a terrible place to be a manager.
Many public companies were ruined by the GE methods that Jack Welch we damn near canonized as a saint for. As he famously said, the ultimate goal would be to have all your factories on ships so you could drop anchor wherever in the world it was cheapest to do business.
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Maybe a factor. But they are also reaching, going back to 1997 to blame 2023/2024’s series of problems. Like despite the 27 years in between, they have been powerless to change their fate...
The same thing happened when Weyerhaeuser bought Willamette Paper. Or as we used to say -they bought us with our money.
I knew in 1998 Boring would go down, when they hired a woman I knew in a high position at their new headquarters in Chicago. She was a highly skilled bull shitter. Very pretty but no good intellect.
United is moving towards Airbus which is the best possible solution for both companies.
Pretty sure the DEI and a CROSS DRESSING CEO, which is a MENTAL DISORDER is doing Boeing in.
Yes, McDonnell Douglas didn’t give a rip about quality. Only about profit.
30 years ago?! Nah. Honestly most of the problems they’re running into are ground crew maintenance issues. Now maybe there’s something wrong with the planes and the maintenance is harder to do right, but tightening the bolts on a plane that’s been in service for years isn’t a Boeing problem.
So planes like the DC3 and MD80 actually weren’t really reliable, safe workhorses for decades?
The authur seems to ignore the necessity of competing with Airbus, and producing fuel-efficient airplanes they could actually sell at prices customers could afford. That had a bit to do with the merger. I’ll accept the idea it didn’t work well to combined the operations and cultures of two companies that were each built around making products their own way. But it’s nonsense to blame management for insisting on economic viability.
I worked with the defense arm of Boeing. They were horrible. They only cared about their award fee.
I also had a feeling Boeing was in trouble when I saw all those “Dreamliner” ads that were all about diversity. Pretty sure that was around 2000 or so.
Boeing ruined Boeing.
So, you are going all the way back to the ‘90’s to blame capitalism instead of the DIE/Woke crappola introduced in last decade?
What a troll.