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Re:Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees t... by plandis on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:23PM (#25678486)
Disagree with solely the CEO but in general Boeing’s leadership seems to be somewhat disconnected from their actual product. Just take a look at Boeing’s HQ in relation to where they actually make things. Boeing’s c-suite is now in Chicago whereas their engineers/plant workers are on other ends of the country (Washington and South Carolina, mostly).
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Re:Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees t... by esoterica on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:26PM (#25678522)
Considering how hard people on this website try to push remote work it's funny how a broad consensus has emerged that Boeing putting workers and management in different offices is responsible for their cultural failures.
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Re:Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees t... by lm28469 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:36PM (#25678637)
One could argue there are differences between us mere code monkeys playing with fancy gadgets and a company in charge of the lives of thousands of people every single day.
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Re:Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees t... by esoterica on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:46AM (#25697686)
There are code monkeys working on safety-critical systems too.
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Re:Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees t... by johnl1479 on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:28PM (#25678552)
All things considered, there is a stark difference between a job whose primary focus is to build a physical thing and a job whose primary focus is to build a digital thing.
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Re:Boeing charged with 737 Max fraud conspiracy and agrees t... by wrkronmiller on Thursday January 07, 2021 @05:29PM (#25678559)
Boeing isn’t a remote company, so it’s not a contradiction.

If you read into most of the arguments for remote-friendly workplaces, step one is cultural changes.

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