11mo ago

Boeing: “The best in the industry used to crawl over shattered glass just to get an interview to work here. And now the company is begging high school students to apply.”

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11mo ago

Striking Is in the Air at Boeing

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11mo ago

Boeing: “The best in the industry used to crawl over shattered glass just to get an interview to work here. And now the company is begging high school students to apply.”

labornotes.org /2024/08/striking-air-boeing

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Monthly reminder that Boeing still has astronauts stranded on the ISS after what was supposed to be a ~1 week mission.
I remember within recent memory that any criticism of Boeing would attract an brigade of haters to shut you down.
I always felt weird people larping for a corporation like that. Good to see these idiots got a fucking clue...
Hopefully Google slaves learned their lesson too lol
You don't need a union, we are all family here 🤡
- If they really were like a (nice well functioning) family a union would not affect their operations in any way so why would they care
- I always felt weird people larping for a corporation like that.
  Agree with this statement. Simping for corporations is so sad. Corporations don't care about you as a person, why should we simp for them? There is no reason.
I'm very glad the UAW strike brought the concept of labour power back into the national conversation for both USA and Canada. The reasons for work disruptions and affordability stagnating is blamed on "lazy workers" less often now than before.
Are we out-of-touch?
No, it's all the students, recruiters, and job-seekers that are wrong.
Yeah that’s because Boeing is dogshit now. Weird how that works.
Probably explains why there's two astronauts stuck on a space station, and they have to resort to murdering whistleblowers...
That tends to happen after you murder one of your employees.
- Just one?
  
  How many employees do you think an employer should be allowed to murder before you would consider it a reason not to apply for a job there?
Boeing really working hard on recruiting hitmen.
The nickel-and-diming of the workers is particularly galling, Haala said, because for Boeing, labor accounts for only 3 to 5 percent of the cost of an airplane.
From my rough searches, these planes cost roughly $250-400 million each.
- Presumably a lot of the actual labor costs are hidden in outsourced parts of the build process.
  
  I'd have to figure on airplane parts, 25% of the cost could be on QC alone.
Wow great article and Elon said its because of DEI policies and HBCUs. "Don't look at all the money I have from being a greedy asshole, it's because of (insert marginalized class or people here)".
I knew a design engineer that came from Canada and... Well it's what he told me, he was one of the top in his field in Canada. He made art in his spare time and it was top quality original shit. Anyone from the Seattle art scene knew him.
He'd talk about how downhill Boeing was becoming, 10 years ago.
Which interview round is the shattered glass in?
They don't even want to increase salary to hire professionals. Begging for unpaid wages
Gosh. Replace management with a bunch of useless fuckwits, pay below minimum wage, murder hundreds of customers (including one of my friend's Dad), and nobody wants to work there? Who'd have ever guessed?
Boing boing is running recruitment ads in INDIA. So expect more or less sleep 100; activate l_r_boosters ; sleep 10; deactivate l_r_boosters; sleep 10 ; if [ progname = 'MCAS' ]; then crash_boing_boing_into_the_ground; else crash_boing_boing_anyway ; fi

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