Comment by timmytokyo
2 years ago
>People point to mismanagement at Boeing, including lately labor outsourcing / labor arbitrage (building plants in SC instead of WA to avoid unions, Spirit Aerosystems, etc) but I see that as part of how Boeing tried to meet the growing demands of air travel.
People also point to management pressuring employees to shut up about manufacturing defects. From the referenced article:
>In 2019, Barnett told a journalist at Corporate Crime Reporter that his managers “started pressuring us not to document defects, to work outside the procedures, to allow defective material to be installed without being corrected. . . . They just wanted to push planes out the door and make the cash register ring.”
So no, if you believe Barnett, failures like Boeing's are not inevitable. They are criminal.
> if you believe Barnett
I believe Barnett's claims should be treated seriously and scrutinized by experts in the industry (which is exactly what was happening when he died, by the way - it's not like people were ignoring what he had to say). I don't believe that he or anyone else is entitled to our faith just because he's saying things that confirm our worldview.