could possibly make. Nope! Today our Groups MBA Manager Clown announced they named the fresh out of College Level 1 Engineer Skid-mark in our group the Lead. Yep this is going to go over real well. The fact the Skid Mark was even hired is still a shock to people in the Group.
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Ive suspected that the 737 mcas system was being reviewed by a level 1. Most of the experienced older engineers were already being pushed out the door.
He didn’t have the experience to see how flawed the design concept was and outsourcing the programming to nine dollar an hour programmers in India they were not going to catch the flaws either.
The McDonnell Douglas crowd that has taken over Boeing swiped 777X Program management and relocated it from Everett to St Louis more than a year ago. The last new airplane development St Louis McDonnell Douglas did was back in the early 1970's with the F-15. McD did not design the F-18, they bought the completed design from Northrop Grumman.
I like it when Level 1 and 2's join the Group and within a month or less, usually less tells the Manager they are preforming Level 4 work, and then demands a Upgrade. All while the facts point out the Level 1 or 2 spends most their work day on Boeing's dime doing their home work for their useless MBA classes they are taking on-line. Seen it happen 100's of times.
Yep. Glory days of the last successful airplane program, the original 777, is long gone. Everything went down hill when they did a massive layoff plus another 10k retired in 1995. All that experience lost
You could have seen the train wreck coming right after, that spelled 787, now 777X another ahem derivative with more delays, with all kinds of issues.
Having Douglas took over Boeing using Boeing $ did not help either
Sad what this company has become.
Keep yapping grandpas! If you were so good and so technically capable, Boeing would not be in this mess with the 787 issues, 737 fiasco and the 777X delays. Admit that Boeing depend on suppliers so much that they don’t know how to design airplanes anymore. You are just a bunch of glorified secretaries filling cert plans and integrating parts that don’t go together. When things go south all you do is blame the MBAs and the Level 1-2s. You are pathetic!
Who do Boeing Skid Marks go running to when it hits them square in the face that they are not so Special as Mommy said after realizing they can't figure out a technical problem they have and are getting pressure from all around? Of course the Skid Marks will run to the older guys begging them for help.
We are so short of qualified people, we cannot afford to put
Those that can into position of management (dealing with people)
Them’s that can DO /// Them’s that can’t management
MBA’s will promote MBA’s
So Boeing is left circling the drain
I would put someone else as your lead also. You senior engineers are the ones who designed MCAS and got us into this mess.
Ok Skid mark so you being a Level 1 you may luck out getting a layoff notice in the near term. In five years from now do you see yourself as a Level 4 or Level 5 or will you have given up the Engineer route and be a Boeing Manager long before then. I bet you are already working on getting your MBA.
I have seen many Skid Marks with more talent than Level 4 grandpa's that have been doing the same thing for 40 years.