Thread regarding Boeing Co. layoffs

The Richardson TX site is a joke which I am unfortunately stuck working at. The employees here are mostly McDonnell Douglas people from St Louis and California, especially the Managers, HR and most of the Leads. All these McD people have contributed to Boeing heritage having a bad reputation to work for. These McD people fled St Louis to move to Texas because St Louis is a crime invested dump. Most of them have zero family members in Texas. They brought with them from St Louis and Calif, their toxic McD culture and McD manager styles especially the McD HR bozo here. These McD people have a reputation of poor treatment of their fellow coworkers especially the managers who don't think twice to lying to subordinates. I wish they would clean house and get rid of the McD people here, let them return to St Louis. Probably would make the Richardson site more bearable to work at. Until then it is not a enjoyable place to be at.

I was laid off in July of 2020. It was hard after well more than a decade spent with Boeing. I have witnessed first hand very capable leaders and managers retiring, while the company slowly being taken over by accountants. As a result, Boeing has managers that manage people and processes only and do not have a clue about how to perform work themselves. I was laid off, but God provided me with a MUCH better job. Apparently, Boeing underpays its IT employees (by the quite significant margin). So, while it was hard on me to be laid off, it turned out much better for me in the long run...

Global services is a joke

Everyone working at this train wreck referred to as the Boeing company states they are either a Boeing Manager or a Lead. Doubtful most Boeing managers and leads could manage or lead their way out of a paper bag. If everyone is a manager or a lead at this company, who the heck is left to perform any meaningful work? Like designing and building airplanes, especially safe ones. Stacking this company high with MBA's is what probably killed it.

Get some sleep. Don't give advice.

Can someone please tell me where "Standford" is, I Googled it and nothing comes up.

Pro Tip: If you are going to rip someone for not having a good education, you might learn the name of the school they didn't graduate from.

Boeing managers also write utter c––p about themselves on their Boeing profiles for all to see. These managers don't even bat a eye when stretching the truth. Here in Mesa we have a manager who used to update their Boeing profile regularly, trying to play themself off as a SME in everything they did. This manager also tired to use word games in writing their Boeing profile to make it sound as if they earned their undergraduate Engineering degree from Standford, when in fact they got some bogus Certificate for a class or seminar they took.

Linkedin is a joke in general, it's 95% fake and BS. It's hard to believe there are any "superstars" at that train wreck of a company called Boeing. It's such a "well managed" company, $64B in debt and two steps from being bankrupt. My company won't hire anyone that worked at Boeing in any kind of managerial role.

Read the LinkedIn profiles of the Boeing managers and especially HR, working at the Global Services Plano, Texas site. These Boeing HR managers working in this expensive high class building come off as brag-a-matics in their LinkedIn profiles they wrote about themselves. Lot of them list themselves as some super-duper Senior Leader and oversee big groups of employees at Boeing blah blah blah. Their achievements they list come off sounding vague too. Sounds more like a bunch of fake self-centered people working at this Boeing site.

I work at Richardson site. Im looking for another job now to get out of Boeing once and for all. I'd warn anyone thinking of taking a job at that Boeing Richardson site to cover your back. The people working at that site are all St Louis McDonnell Douglas transplants.

"They told us Global Services (fleet maintenance) was 10x the profit of making the plane."

If it turns ANY profit, it is more profitable. Even the last good years before the recent downturn, the company was accruing a lot of debt, much like the government and all other publicly traded companies, you are not profitable as reported if you have more debt than the previous year. Its all a Big Players game to siphon money from us all and move on when finally fails.

They really mistreat people at the Richardson site.

While your at it in the Dallas area, don't forget that train wreck out at the airport called Aviall/Boeing Distribution. That place is run like poorly managed warehouse was in 1853, they definitely don't have the best and brightest working at that slophouse.

The building lease on the Plano, Texas Global Services HQ should be cancelled. The Boeing group working in that building is mostly of HR types. Those people don't do much work to start with and spend their time surfing the web all day. The lease on that building is a waste of money. Cancel it and layoff all the HR people in that building. Same goes with the Richardson sites. Just a bunch of McD people in those buildings passing their time surfing the web all day. Lay them all off. For the McD crowd in those buildings, they deserve a 60 second Warn notice rather than a 60 day.

They told us Global Services (fleet maintenance) was 10x the profit of making the plane. We would all be doing something to support Global Services. It never panned out. Nothing. So mismanaged.

Aircraft spare parts is the biggest cash cow in aviation. A 10 year old could make 30% margin. How can you screw up the golden goose that bad. Only at Boeing.

Global Services is a joke, just spend sometime in their Plano HQ and it becomes evident.

Looks like there is an extra space in the above post. It was 2.9% operating margins. Target used to be 20+ .