It wasn't a manager, but aomeone who worked in quality control. His managers wanted him to ignore these issues..
The most WTF moment for me was when he told about a whole ladder that has been forgotten inside.
The most WTF moment for me was when he told about a whole ladder that has been forgotten inside.
I would guess the NC plant was commissioned without much, if any involvement from the Seattle people, if there culture was that radically different.
It’s also why Boeing has been cutting their key engineering staff in Seattle — they also unionized. In fact, rumor has it that the entire reason MCAS/737MAX debacle happened was outsourcing and contracting shenanigans to break the engineering union.
It turns out moving senior management away from the rest of the company and getting in an ugly fight with your talent before petulantly building a non-union plant elsewhere leads to low quality products and out of touch executives.
Who could have known?
Oh yeah, my friend’s uncle who flatly said when his generation of engineers retired, Boeing would lose the ability to make planes.
And everyone else.
The other story I remember was he found that defective parts, which had their own area so as to be separate from good parts, so they wouldn't be used, were going missing. When he confronted a manager they told him to not worry about it. The parts were clearly going into planes so they could ship them out.