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Good. Jim McNerney absolutely shredded the culture, and eroded decades of good will. It's far past time workers for Boeing pressed for things to go back to bein
by hungie 2y ago
Good. Jim McNerney absolutely shredded the culture, and eroded decades of good will. It's far past time workers for Boeing pressed for things to go back to being an engineering and manufacturing led company.
Striking is one way to get closer to that, good on them.
- tempodox 2y agoReclaiming control from the beancounters and misers to rein in their destructive influence? I'm not optimistic.
- M95D 2y agoEver heard of a stock-price led company that "went back to being an engineering and manufacturing led company"?
- JKCalhoun 2y agoIt may be Boeing's only chance of having a future. Good luck, Boeing. (And I mean that.)
- extraduder_ire 2y agoWhat happened with dell when they went back to being privately owned for a couple of years?
- fragmede 2y agoDepends on how deeply you know the story of GE, which was an engineering company, became a financial services company, and now is back to engineering.
- triceratops 2y agoI think GP meant went back successfully. Whether today's GE will ultimately be successful remains to be seen.
- harimau777 2y agoDo you have any more information on that? I worked for GE in the past and would like to do so again; however, I'd avoided them because it seemed like they'd been run into the ground.
- paxys 2y ago> and now is back to engineering There is no company called GE anymore. Most of its engineering units were sold off to other companies which just license its brand. GE appliances, for example, are actually Haier. GE Lighting was sold to a home automation startup. GE's biggest value creator today is its brand name, not its engineering.
- collinmcnulty 2y agoThis is not correct. There are three companies formed from the splitting up of GE that all do serious engineering. GE Aviation, GE Vernova (power), and GE Healthcare.
- paulvnickerson 2y agoMaybe they should go private then, like Musk did with Twitter.
- michael1999 2y agoI don't see anything about the engineering culture in the union demands. It's all about pay, benefits, etc. I fear this will do the exact opposite: vindicate the union-busters who wanted to move out of Washington in the first place.
- michael1999 2y agoI should be clear, I see the linkage. The union-busters from MD are a cause of Boeing's woes, and it would be difficult to maintain a high-discipline, high-quality culture in a right-to-work plant without external oversight. The plausible deniability of production mandates with records falsification make zero-tenure employment toxic to a safety-critical program.
- hintymad 2y agoAnd what's enraging is that he was boasting his so-called culture-building in his book and retried scar free