Boeing Charleston? Telling me it was a great career move. I responded saying sure it was but Thanks but no Thanks! MBA then tried a different route applying his Little Big Man pressure on me. I wondered out loud if he would be paid a finders fee bounty for anyone d-mb enough to transfer to Charleston. I told him if Charleston was a great career move he should go himself since he has a MBA. He got all mad at me and walked off. I am sure it will be payback time during my mid year review. But hopefully MBA gets shipped off to Charleston since no one will miss him in our group due to his weak manager style and poor people skills.
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I doubt there are any managers at Boeing these days that you could truly describe as not being worthless...whether they have an engineering degree or not...or whether they have a MBA degree or not. You would have be both on the nepotism rapid career advancement track and a low quality human being to still be a manager at Boeing these days.
Nothing that happens at Boeing would surprise me anymore. Glad the FAA and other regulators are trying to keep a close eye on things but this may prove to be inadequate.
Rumor is folks on SC line are now using razor blades to damage wire bundle insulation that can't easily be seen and can result in electrical shorts and fire. Any truth to this? Wouldn't be good for a fly by wire 787.
Let’s be real and admit that if you transfer to BSC, SPEEA won’t be there to protect your lazy a-s. Neither yourself nor 95% of speea folks would survive out there in the non-union world.
In other topics, BSC does not know how to put airplanes together so there is no point in transferring there.
You would be wise to find a better way to make a living than wasting your time with Boeing. Too many good people made that mistake.
It would take a generation for Boeing to regain the engineering prowess they once had. And they won't get that opportunity because of Airbus, COMAC, SpaceX and far better defense contractors better postured with better products and long-term DOD contract commitments. Word is Airbus will be supplying US tankers in the not too distant future too.
No, the biggest mistake Boeing made was making Phil Conduit CEO. Being one the most incompetent engineers in Boeing history and being an even worse engineering manager, he single-handedly disenfranchised Boeing's best experienced State licensed professional engineers by creating a management nepotism selected engineering fraternity and was the person who enabled MD to take over the Boeing and spread their cancerous and ruinous greedy and unethical culture throughout Boeing. So the decline of Boeing started in the early 90s...over 30 years ago.
Dang, I bet it was Phong
Boeing doesn’t ever promote people in Charleston. Unless you can become a lead or Manager you don’t get a level bump.
They have to compete with the other locations on cost so they purposely try to keep their employees the lowest paid.
A lot of people have already moved to Charleston based on the promise of career advancement which did not happen for most of them.
Honorable mention to the 747-8, 787, 777X and Tanker programs, invoking woke culture, $45B in stock buybacks, and worst of all trying to pin the entire 737 fiasco on a single test pilot.
The two biggest mistakes Boeing has made are. Number one, the Merger with McDonnell Douglas. Hands down that was a stupid move Boeing did. Number two, moving work out of Seattle and placing it in locations that do not have a skilled an experienced Aero work force.