Watch the documentaries, the former MD board basically took over Boeing, moved leadership out of WA to Chicago, set up separate plants (one in Georgia not sure if there are more) to counter union/worker demands in WA, etc. This has been a long process resulting in the rotting of the company from the inside out. The 787 was the first example of their garbage - - even though I like the plane, it had a lot of issues.
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perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 10 months agoIt’s quite weird that the company used to have a safety culture before the acquisition - just can’t imagine an aircraft company wanting to throw that away when it’s so valuable.
kcuf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
Mergers of this type usually have one corporate culture win out over the other. In this case, Boeing’s corporate culture lost out and with it, their safety culture.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It’s because the finance chucklefucks ran the numbers, saw data that indicated simply paying out injury and wrongful death settlements and safety penalties appeared to be cheaper than designing a new airframe, and went that route. It’s very literally all a numbers game, and the only numbers that really matter to these idiots are the ones with $ in the front.
Untitled4774@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I just watched Fight Club again, and this was literally Ed Norton’s character’s job.
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If the number for the recall or redesign is higher than the lawsuits, they don’t do it. They let people die.
The only way to fight it is to have an automatic adjustment to all unit and wrongful death payouts times 10, hell 1000. There should be no cost on a human life.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
lol I gotta watch that again