thumperclone wrote on 11/15/19 at 15:27:44:it just occurred to me lizzy warrens' claims....
on a side note
bet you are glad you left Boeing when you did
Yeah, that last year was really rough.....
Having cut my teeth on the 787 program, working it from its early days, of actual production.....
I touched every aircraft made, up to about line 100 or so.
A short stint on the new tanker ( nightmare, but customer has deep pockets, and don't know what it is they want)
To Renton, the 737 program.
When they started on the MAX, it got ugly, real quick.
I saw things that were wrong, and would never have been allowed on the other programs I worked.
All the problems started with upper management looking back over their shoulders, at Airbus.
Boeing is synonymous with commercial aircraft, they only needed to keep enhancing their existing programs, and improving on their production....
But they freaked, thought they needed to invent something new, like they do in the auto industry, which they in fact, did use as a model of production....
Anyway...yeah, Boeing that we know, is on a descending mode, still very diverse in its holdings, but its commercial aircraft programs will never be the same again, ever.
Lots of reasons contributing to that, but mostly, it was who knocked over the first domino, that caused the others to timber....
Did I answer your question?
BTW, I sold off every last stock I ever bought, it was a good run, I'd cash out my pension, if they'd let me, but I am small potatoes to some of the holdings of guys with decades of employment with Boeing...I could absorb the lost of this money, if it came to that, with those other folk, it would really put a hurt on them, BIG TIME. Hope it never comes to that, but who knows.....???