Comment by isbjorn16
5 years ago
To be clear, this doesn't mean there aren't intelligent people in South Carolina. What this does mean is there is a presence in this PNW area, specifically centralized in Puget Sound, where talented aerospace engineers tend to congregate.
No matter where you move that is new, you are not going to have that _local_ talent pool necessarily available to you. This isn't to slight South Carolina at all, but it is reality.
You're no wrong, but the folks in South Carolina were (supposedly) specifically told not to try to get people from the PNW area to transfer because management didn't want union-leaning individuals coming into the new plant.
They seem to be explicitly preferring to sacrifice quality control to keep (higher-paid?) experienced union folks out. Presumably to help their bottom line.
If I was a Boeing customer I'm not sure I'd like seeing quality control being a secondary consideration of hundred of millions of dollars of my money.