Seniority wise, who will get cut? 10 years in? 5 years or less?
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I have worked at Boeing 31 years and I can honestly say this is going to be like nothing we have seen before. If you have less than 5 years you will be out, Calhoun is here to clean house. I predict they will leave Puget Sound in the next 18 months. Best of luck to everyone, we had a good run but its game over. Start planning for whats coming next.
—Cut To The Bone
Been at the company 30yrs. Sorry to say when all said and done half the work force will be gone. Maybe for a yr? Depending on this COVID thing, maybe longer. Planes not even certified then even when it is there’s months of sim training when they ever figure that out. It will be a few yrs before we’re going anywhere near where it was before. If at all. Just my two cents. The life of workin at Boeing. Been that way forever. Boeing had a great run. It will never fail but will never be the same. Wish everyone well.
Been at the company 30yrs. Sorry to say when all said and done half the work force will be gone. Maybe for a yr? Depending on this COVID thing, maybe longer. Planes not even certified then even when it is there’s months of sim training when they ever figure that out. It will be a few yrs before we’re going anywhere near where it was before. If at all. Just my two cents. The life of workin at Boeing. Been that way forever. Boeing had a great run. It will never fail but will never be the same. Wish everyone well.
Calhoun is the wrong man for us but the right guy for the board. He’s a bean counting, penny pinching, morale k–ling jack a– that does nothing for the worker. Does nothing for the future. He’s here to put a finger on a leak that requires a lot more than that. Money is dumping out and he’s trying to slow it enough till they get their bailout.
They’ll never cut from the top down like they should. Execs, leadership...most are worthless.
We’ll never go back to the pre-MD days. When our union and our attitudes were a lot better. When the product and the employee mattered, not profit first. The public and employees having little confidence in the company, customers have gone into hiding. When it’ll return is anyone’s guess really. Not this year. Not next.
The percentage of cuts announced is just a general number. It, like us, are just numbers. The company deems us replaceable. So 10%,15%....it’s just numbers. Only time will tell how many go.
A small part of me wishes/hopes they will hold off on anything deeper. At least this year.
But, do you really believe ANYTHING the Co. officially says at this point? We've been more accurate here on this site than anything the Co. has issued as truth these past 12-16 months...? Just sayin'. They issue statements to rally Wall St., telling us what's really up their sleeves would be detrimental to their goals.Of course, they couldn't keep this reality under wraps any longer, but do you really believe you & I, & community etc. is in their sincere thoughts & prayers right now? Hope not. Calhoun is worried about pleasing his masters (BOD) & nothing more. At this point, he's just looking for a decent Golden Parachute, you get the g—n s—r.
IMO I can’t see it being 10 yrs. Not unless there’s multiple rounds stretching into late fall/early next year. My humble guess is 2-5 yrs depending on job code. 10%-15% company wide is a very generic statement by the company as usual. It just means hurry up and wait. It’s typical. Not the answer you wanted but it’s not really an answerable question yet unfortunately.
If the company has 160,000....that’s 16,000 to 24,000 cuts. But it encompasses everyone, not just union members. And there’s VLO’s, retirees....
I’m my grade 4 position, there’s I believe roughly 3200 or so. I could be off by some but I’d think the cuts for it would be 500-700. Maybe a little more due to fallback rights or being bumped out.
Well put below. The brutal answer to the OP's question tho, is as follows: VLO's 1st. Whatever is left after that, it's simply down to seniority in each job code.They offered the VLO to 115 job codes, I counted them.In each code, ILO go from bottom to top. Bumping will occur.They say 15k in Commercial, 1st round. Just be prepared, people. It's gonna be a bumpy ride.No one will lose their job tomorrow, or next month....after that....hang on....
best of luck to all. I know most of us are hard working ethical people, who are victims of wrong place at wrong time. We can leverage our experience for better opportunities in time. Be well.