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SarahD

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Wed Mar 13, 2024, 03:18 PM Mar 2024

We miss Boeing. The old Boeing. [View all]

I know several people who retired from Boeing after long careers. They were proud of their airplanes and union to the core. The company moved its corporate HQ to Chicago for no other reason than bribery in the guise of tax incentives. Rank and file Boeing employees predicted the worst, but they didn't know how right they were. They built a company based on quality and had it taken from them by a bunch of biz school wizards who thought they could produce planes the way Ron Popiel produced kitchen gadgets. This article may not explain everything that went wrong with Boeing, but it conveys a good basic understanding.
https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/why-boeings-problems-with-737-max-began-more-than-25-years-ago#:~:text=Once%20again%2C%20Boeing's%20737%20MAX,fuselage%20panel%20on%20January%205.

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