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.