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[-] [email protected] 103 points 10 months ago

Monthly reminder that Boeing still has astronauts stranded on the ISS after what was supposed to be a ~1 week mission.

[-] [email protected] 74 points 10 months ago

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 🤡

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 10 months ago

Are we out-of-touch?

No, it's all the students, recruiters, and job-seekers that are wrong.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Yeah that’s because Boeing is dogshit now. Weird how that works.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Probably explains why there's two astronauts stuck on a space station, and they have to resort to murdering whistleblowers...

[-] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

That tends to happen after you murder one of your employees.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Per quarter or just in general?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Quarterly, with a quota of floating murders per year

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

And the SCOTUS just ruled that companies can murder 2 9/11s worth of employees annually.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Also lets not forget that work contracts, just like trial Disney+ streaming terms of service, can include Mandatory Arbitrage clauses in case of dispute, so people will be signing away for life their right to not be murdered to get even just some temp work.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Presumably a lot of the actual labor costs are hidden in outsourced parts of the build process.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I'd have to figure on airplane parts, 25% of the cost could be on QC alone.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What is the expensive part you imagine about QC that isn't labor? I mean sure, you need the occasional destructive test and some fuel and hangar rent but mainly it is people doing the quality control checks.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I wasn't. That's why I figured 3% is ridiculously low.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Boeing really working hard on recruiting hitmen.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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)".

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Which interview round is the shattered glass in?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

They don't even want to increase salary to hire professionals. Begging for unpaid wages

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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?

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