I left Boeing a year ago and have been watching the company from the sidelines. Honestly, I can't see any improvements since I left the company. Boeing's salaries are low; especially with the cost of living in Seattle the benefits are average at best. Why bother going back.
I was shocked when Boeing won the F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter. Believe Boeing will perform poorly on that contract with the risk of cancellation.
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When bonus money trades hands to mishandle people we know we are in trouble.
@6ew
I believe GE is where stonecipher, mcnerney, and calhoun hailed from.
I went from Boeing to General Electric and found Boeings toxic twin. Sometimes the grass isn't greener on the other side. Just scorched earth.
@19r
It sounds like your 30 years coincides with the MacDac takeover that took place in 1998. Managers and Executives listening to radio station WIIFM What's In It For Me.
I left boeing because I was offered a 55% pay increase. I only returned years later after they honored my new salary level plus all increases and because they bridged me back pension-wise and I resumed accumulating pension benefits. When they terminated their pension program I left again and never returned. The only reason to ever work for boeing, besides the salary match, WAS the pension !!! You'd be a fool to ever work for, much less ever return to, boeing now without that pension. Life's too short, boeing management's never going to change, the pay there will always be too low. Cut your losses !!! Go somewhere else and NEVER look back !!!
I can't think of even a single Boeing manager I could trust, or who had my behalf in mind during my 30 yrs working at Boeing. I recall working for a Boeing manager for five years who only had their yearly bonus in mind and would deliberately not support any of us in the group during raise time. I recently left Boeing, and don't believe anything positive has changed there since. Why would anyone who worked in that kind of environment want to return to Boeing after leaving.
I left over a year ago as well. There are pockets of good people and good groups, but they never go above that level.
They have the wrong people in management. Even when they know they have the wrong people, they can't or won't do anything about it.
I'm not going back, I can't see any sequence of events that wound even have me considering it.
From a current Boeing employees' point of view. Any former employee thinking of coming back to Boeing to work is a bad idea. This company has a toxic work environment.
@OP
I left BA 17 years ago. They were the most corrupt company I every worked for by a long shot. Work for the company until it no longer serves you, then move on again. Good luck.