Just relax, focus on work, focus on delivering things, making things happen and you will be safe from layoffs anywhere, especially here in Chicago.
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Boeing can’t seem to figure out what it is, what it needs to do, and how and where to do it. Boeing like all the other aircraft companies design and build the most complicated technically advanced aircraft. Experience at a high level is hard to find, sometimes it is impossible. Boeing takes this experience for granted, I’ve seen this from 1990’s onward. Boeing gold is its level 3 up engineers, which are the only employees that can leverage lessons learned against time and design costs. So what does Boeing do, it lays off most of its gold. This is the perfect example of failed management processes and policies. General understanding among Boeing engineers is that if you’re a lousy engineer then you become a manager so you don’t have engineer anything and screw it up.
Here we go again, Boeing layoff culture on the move. Boeing seems obsessed with two things – GE and layoffs, how many times does Boeing have to be burned by fools from GE? Boeing is doing blanket layoffs based on Level, from level 4 to 6 and K&L Mgrs. Well engineers holding level 4 are the most experienced engineers in the company. If you’re trying to be competitive you don’t layoff your most experienced people. A case can be made that engineers holding level 4 and above are older, averaging about 61 years old, so this looks like age and benefit discrimination. Boeing just raised the price of their aircraft after telling everyone that these layoffs are needed to cut costs to be competitive… are you kidding me? The top execs are making upwards of 15 million dollar salaries, yet no one sees these people taking a pay cut. Actually Boeing should layoff its engineers 1 and 2 because they are the least experience and are a dime-a-dozen on the market. Losing these lower level engineers has the least impact on operations because they don’t know enough, this simple fact is lost on management. Boeing tried outsourcing with 787 at the behest of a GE CEO (Stonecipher was from GE before McDonald Douglas and before Boeing) and it was a disaster, have they learned anything, no. Stonecipher was considered to be an idiot by the rank and file McDonald Douglas employees, so of course Boeing made him the CEO of Boeing, they didn’t learn from that either. After that disaster they hired McNerney from 3M (he was from GE before 3M), and he was a fool who knew nothing about aircraft. The current CEO is somewhat of an enigma, no one seems to what this guy about, the new guy in Boeing Commercial is just another GE guy, here we go again.
To survive, you have to have a very special skill, the skill that most of Boeing employees don't have. If you think you are one of those who does not have that skill, it is time to learn now, before it's too late. Hopefully you know what that skill is.
Boeing is doomed.
Arrogant hourly employees who think they are so highly skilled, clueless 'leadership', and lots of incestuous work relationships based on who's butt you kiss, or who you're related to (especially in Boeing Fabrication - where entire families work together)
They talk so much 'change', but the same old crap goes one, and nothing changes...
Prepare for layoffs in 2017. They'll start with VLO's - then go to Involuntary Q2, Q3, Q4. Nothing is sacred. If you think you're safe - think again.
Of course - if you're related to an exec level mgr, friends with him / her, golfing buddies, or are really good at a-- kissing, you'll last. Don't worry.
There have been rumors on the floor about layoffs after first of the year, notices to go out mid Jan for Puget Sound region.
Boeing has limited presence in Chicago - however there is a lot of anxiety about 2017 - we'll see if things continue to improve
This turd has struck again, hitting all the defense-related forums here on thelayoff, fishing for rumors by claiming there are stories of layoffs at the corporate HQ location... not realizing that only a tiny fraction of Boeing's workforce is located at corp HQ in Chicago.