The atmosphere here has a negative effect on people. Everyone is tense and it is not at all surprising that people who leave Boeing and go to another company soon become less bitter and generally more enthusiastic about work. What, in your opinion, destroyed the culture here the most?
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Bob got it right...greedy stupid Boeing leaders.
If you want to learn how to become an airframe designer or stress analyst you don’t want to go to work for Boeing. They outsourced all of it. And to make matters worse they want to pay their employees less then their competition.
Ah...read the Bob Bogash Not Acceptable discussion sometime...
Toxic workplaces don't happen overnight - it takes a convergence of unaddressed factors building up over the years to create. That's also why they're so hard to get rid of - you can't just hang up a bunch of Boeing Values posters or SSL training and think that'll take care of it. Unprecedented corporate greed (money over everything), cutting corners, lack of effective leadership, woke agendas, nepotism, layoffs, corruption, and a "too big to fail" attitude all played major rolls in running the company into the ground.
Money over quality. I see it everyday. Junk going out the door. The next gen was the last of the quality planes. Max is garbage.
A few bad years will do that to a company. That and depending on what job you have at Boeing, the barriers to entry can be somewhat low, meaning they will hire people that probably shouldn’t be working there to begin with. But there are a lot of great people that work for the company as well. If your working in the greater Seattle area, I would guess people are stressed about the cost of living considering your average Boeing employee is in the low six figures and you need 200k to keep your head above water in that area. It’s hard to pinpoint an exact reason as to why the toxic culture is prevalent.