Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737 Max pilots unprepared

Re:Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737... by rapsey on Sunday December 22, 2019 @01:33AM (#21855626)

This is unfortunately a very naive point of view. An exec in charge of training is an exec in charge of a cost center. No one likes costs, so no one appreciates his job and his career is hampered.

Turning it into a profit center earns him respect and promotions.

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Re:Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737... by mschuster91 on Sunday December 22, 2019 @04:31AM (#21856146)

This is why some orgs did an "internal outsourcing" of their IT / training / other "shared services" - they bill the other departments for what they do. It both disincentivizes waste for the client departments and prevents the "IT department is a cost center" mindset, at the downside of a boatload of bureaucracy if every purchase of, let's say, a broken HDMI cable has to go through countless approval loops.

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Re:Boeing push to make training profitable may have left 737... by rdtwo on Sunday December 22, 2019 @10:23AM (#21857575)

Our department once tried to buy a 200$ fiber optic cable... it took 2 engineers, a manager and a director 9 months of paperwork to request one... and in the end we never got the cable.

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