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Boeing Whistleblower: Production Line Has “Enormous Volume Of Defects” Bolts On MAX 9 Weren’t Installed
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Bean counter who ordered cuts on QC probably failed upward
You'd think corporations would learn from these types of failures. But no, not as long as endless growth is the overall plan. The yes men will keep cutting corners at the expense of safety and quality.
So far they've learned the benefit far outweighs the cost
Especially if you can get a new job before something goes wrong. Get an upper management job, strip the metaphorical walls of copper to "cut costs", and use that on your CV to get a C-suite job somewhere else.
What do you mean goes wrong?
Boring still isn't suffering for this. They've made their money and will continue to make more.
Boeing cut roughly 800 quality engineers from their staff in favor of “technology”.
“Some of you will die, but, that’s ok with us as long as we appease our capitalistic overlords” -Boeing
One source of many: https://www.heraldnet.com/business/boeing-revamps-quality-control-more-high-tech-fewer-humans/
Apparently that program failed by their own metrics and they abandoned it.
It was Mentor Pilot video on Boeing, he mentioned they had some fancy automated QA system they pissed a load of money up the wall on, and in the end they still had to spend just as much on rework and it was scrapped.
I've no idea if they hired new QA people after, but even if they did it wouldn't be the same people back, what with their "brilliant" idea of shedding expensive, experienced staff in Washington and replacing them with cheaper inexperienced hires in South Carolina
Oh no. What a surprise¡
“Our QC never finds any major issues, if we cut budget here, here and here we can increase EBIDTA, yada yada MOAR PROFITS since our processes are perfect anyway!”
And now that they've laid off all of QC.