We are in the middle of a media feeding frenzy where everything that goes wrong on a Boeing aircraft is front page news while problems with other aircraft are ignored. Things on aircraft break quite often from defects, old age, and/or poor maintenance. It happens, there are tens of thousands of flights every day. That people can't see th…
We are in the middle of a media feeding frenzy where everything that goes wrong on a Boeing aircraft is front page news while problems with other aircraft are ignored. Things on aircraft break quite often from defects, old age, and/or poor maintenance. It happens, there are tens of thousands of flights every day. That people can't see this and are now trusting the media's fear mongering (after everything we've been through) boggles my mind.
Boeing has real problems with it's management culture which I describe in a comment below which almost certainly contributed to the very real fuselage plug accident. This other stuff is just media fear porn. People accept it as real since it validates their political beliefs.
BFM, I have first hand experience here unlike that goofball pitching a string of events as some sort of proven grand conspiracy. That whistleblower was in the middle of a very adversarial deposition. The more likely explanation is that Boeing had info proving he was lying and made it clear they were going to destroy him. So he ended it.
Ask yourself, who benefits if Boeing fails? And it isn't Airbus but China. In fact the head of Airbus spoke sympathetically of Boeing as they know it could have been them being targeted. China is working to take over the commercial aircraft market and they know Boeing is a prominent military contractor. Boeing's failure plays right into China's hands.
This is yet another media psy-op, and people are falling for it hook, line, and sinker because it strokes their preconceived political beliefs.
We completely agree, they have a serious issue with their management culture that goes back nearly twenty years (that I wrote about in another comment). It's now manifesting as poor execution, particularly on big, complex jobs like Starliner. They are hardly alone though as Northrop Grumman just had a multi-billion dollar classified program outright cancelled due to poor performance.
We are in the midst of a competency crisis across the board where once great institutions are failing. But this has far more to do with corporate vultures hell-bent on raising stock prices short term rather than focusing on long term growth. Add to that supply chain issues from Covid, three years of highly inefficient work from home, kids coming out of college that cannot think for themselves, and DEI (to a small extent). Problems that were hidden are now surfacing.
My issue is two-fold: 1) People blaming this all on DEI when it's actually probably less than 10% of the cause, and 2) the media hyping every recent incident with a Boeing aircraft while ignoring it on other aircraft. Both are manipulative and being used to push an agenda.
I know from personal experience Boeing has far less DEI stuff than other big companies. It's there of course to some extent, but it's background noise compared to others. Boeing is historically a cautious and conservative company, they don't jump on every bandwagon like many others. It's also highly ethical at least at the worker bee level (cannot speak for executives). Yet people with no experience with the company are ready to parrot nonsense because the media and conservative "influencers" are whipping up a frenzy.
Now we may agree with some of that agenda (i.e. being against DEI) but that doesn't make it true, a lie is still a lie. I'm sure you don't believe what the media says about Covid, the vax, Israel, or climate change, why do you believe them here? Why do you believe what some guy with a twitter account (who could be a Chinese agent for all I know) says?
We laugh at the covidians for believing all the nonsense from the media and people still wearing masks four years later. How can they still fall for this we wonder. Yet we do the exact same thing (and I mean exact) when someone pushes a narrative that aligns with our existing biases. Then we wonder why people call us Trumptards that can't think for ourselves.
I believe we are on the right side of history here but we really need some introspection before jumping on narrative that we happen to like. The world is filled with grifters on all sides.
We are in the middle of a media feeding frenzy where everything that goes wrong on a Boeing aircraft is front page news while problems with other aircraft are ignored. Things on aircraft break quite often from defects, old age, and/or poor maintenance. It happens, there are tens of thousands of flights every day. That people can't see this and are now trusting the media's fear mongering (after everything we've been through) boggles my mind.
Boeing has real problems with it's management culture which I describe in a comment below which almost certainly contributed to the very real fuselage plug accident. This other stuff is just media fear porn. People accept it as real since it validates their political beliefs.
You are way under playing it. Check out the conspiracy:
https://twitter.com/5149jamesli/status/1775944213408240035
BFM, I have first hand experience here unlike that goofball pitching a string of events as some sort of proven grand conspiracy. That whistleblower was in the middle of a very adversarial deposition. The more likely explanation is that Boeing had info proving he was lying and made it clear they were going to destroy him. So he ended it.
Ask yourself, who benefits if Boeing fails? And it isn't Airbus but China. In fact the head of Airbus spoke sympathetically of Boeing as they know it could have been them being targeted. China is working to take over the commercial aircraft market and they know Boeing is a prominent military contractor. Boeing's failure plays right into China's hands.
This is yet another media psy-op, and people are falling for it hook, line, and sinker because it strokes their preconceived political beliefs.
They can't even get their manned space capsule delivered after SpaceX (which doesn't use DEI) has beat them by years.
Boeing disfunction is directly proportional to their purge of experienced White staffers.
They're a symptom of all our formerly greatest intuitions. Being systematically ruined in the name of equity and equality.
We completely agree, they have a serious issue with their management culture that goes back nearly twenty years (that I wrote about in another comment). It's now manifesting as poor execution, particularly on big, complex jobs like Starliner. They are hardly alone though as Northrop Grumman just had a multi-billion dollar classified program outright cancelled due to poor performance.
We are in the midst of a competency crisis across the board where once great institutions are failing. But this has far more to do with corporate vultures hell-bent on raising stock prices short term rather than focusing on long term growth. Add to that supply chain issues from Covid, three years of highly inefficient work from home, kids coming out of college that cannot think for themselves, and DEI (to a small extent). Problems that were hidden are now surfacing.
My issue is two-fold: 1) People blaming this all on DEI when it's actually probably less than 10% of the cause, and 2) the media hyping every recent incident with a Boeing aircraft while ignoring it on other aircraft. Both are manipulative and being used to push an agenda.
I know from personal experience Boeing has far less DEI stuff than other big companies. It's there of course to some extent, but it's background noise compared to others. Boeing is historically a cautious and conservative company, they don't jump on every bandwagon like many others. It's also highly ethical at least at the worker bee level (cannot speak for executives). Yet people with no experience with the company are ready to parrot nonsense because the media and conservative "influencers" are whipping up a frenzy.
Now we may agree with some of that agenda (i.e. being against DEI) but that doesn't make it true, a lie is still a lie. I'm sure you don't believe what the media says about Covid, the vax, Israel, or climate change, why do you believe them here? Why do you believe what some guy with a twitter account (who could be a Chinese agent for all I know) says?
We laugh at the covidians for believing all the nonsense from the media and people still wearing masks four years later. How can they still fall for this we wonder. Yet we do the exact same thing (and I mean exact) when someone pushes a narrative that aligns with our existing biases. Then we wonder why people call us Trumptards that can't think for ourselves.
I believe we are on the right side of history here but we really need some introspection before jumping on narrative that we happen to like. The world is filled with grifters on all sides.