Boeing Plans to Cut 17,000 Jobs - 10% of Its Workforce

[erek]

They’re all being punished because of the 777X delays, “Boeing will also delay the launch of its 777X plane until 2026 due to ongoing challenges, Ortberg wrote...”

“"Our business is in a difficult position, and it is hard to overstate the challenges we face together," Ortberg said in the memo. "The state of our business and our future recovery require tough actions...." Now at risk of a downgrade to its credit rating as its circumstances worsen, Boeing has taken other steps to reduce expenses, including imposing a hiring freeze and eliminating unnecessary travel.
"The strike by Boeing machinists is costing the company roughly $1 billion a month, according to estimates from S&P Global..."”

Source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/...plans-to-cut-17000-jobs---10-of-its-workforce

 

[erek]

 

[Red Falcon]

How's that DEI working out for you, Boeing?

 

[HockeyJon]

The hits just keep on coming for Boeing. What a disaster.

 

[alxlwson]

Wow.

 

[YeuEmMaiMai]

They’re all being punished because of the 777X delays, “Boeing will also delay the launch of its 777X plane until 2026 due to ongoing challenges, Ortberg wrote...”

“"Our business is in a difficult position, and it is hard to overstate the challenges we face together," Ortberg said in the memo. "The state of our business and our future recovery require tough actions...." Now at risk of a downgrade to its credit rating as its circumstances worsen, Boeing has taken other steps to reduce expenses, including imposing a hiring freeze and eliminating unnecessary travel.
"The strike by Boeing machinists is costing the company roughly $1 billion a month, according to estimates from S&P Global..."”

Source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/...plans-to-cut-17000-jobs---10-of-its-workforce

No, Boeing is heavily invested in DEI and that has come back to bite them in their bottom end
https://www.boeing.com/sustainability/diversity-and-inclusion

The amount of engineering failures we have seen lately by Boeing is staggering.

“Boeing will also delay the launch of its 777X plane until 2026 due to ongoing challenges, Ortberg wrote...”

should read

“Boeing will also delay the launch of its 777X plane until 2026 due to embracing DEI instead of hiring engineers capable of meeting the challenges, Ortberg wrote...”

The 747 was basically made with slide rules and was without a doubt the best plane they ever made

 

[kirbyrj]

Not to mention, the timing of the workers' strike didn't help the workers at all. Easier to just eliminate the jobs.

 

[DooKey]

The workers screwed themselves. Many are going to be let go and the rest will take what is offered soon enough or none of them will have jobs.

 

[DouglasteR]

DEIng to death.

 

[Flogger23m]

These have folding wingtips, a first for large commercial jets. An interesting work around due to clearance issues many airports will have.

 

[Lakados]

DEIng to death.

DEI is the least of their problems when they only have a single person rated to install doors. Yet doors somehow get installed while they are out anyways.

Boeing is a textbook example of what happens when bean counters take over an engineering firm.

You can train anybody to do a good job, but you can’t fix shit when your manager says “No, don’t do that, it’s not in the budget, it’s fine as is.”

 

[Tsumi]

DEI is the least of their problems when they only have a single person rated to install doors. Yet doors somehow get installed while they are out anyways.

Boeing is a textbook example of what happens when bean counters take over an engineering firm.

You can train anybody to do a good job, but you can’t fix shit when your manager says “No, don’t do that, it’s not in the budget, it’s fine as is.”

This. Boeing's troubles started with the merger with McDonnell-Douglas. MD's bean counters kicked Boeing's engineer execs out. This is best seen in Boeing's insistence on iterating the 737 over the years despite its shortcomings instead of designing a new platform. Sure, they needed to stay competitive with Airbus, but they should have used the NGs to tide them over to the new platform instead of insisting on 737 to the MAX and potentially beyond. The profits went into the C-suite pockets instead of being invested back into the company.

 

[YeuEmMaiMai]

DEI is the least of their problems when they only have a single person rated to install doors. Yet doors somehow get installed while they are out anyways.

Boeing is a textbook example of what happens when bean counters take over an engineering firm.

You can train anybody to do a good job, but you can’t fix shit when your manager says “No, don’t do that, it’s not in the budget, it’s fine as is.”

no it a textbook example of not having qualified people working there.

While they may call it a merger, BOEING was the surviving entity and that was almost 30 years ago (Aug 1997)

and to say Mc Donnell Douglas was bean counting lol they had the DC-9 and they could not keep up with production

https://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/leonard/Active Papers/What Killed Douglas Aircraft.pdf