The destruction of Boeing's safety culture by executives should be a warning for our government: experience matters, leaders who hate the career experts don't have the capacity to manage the risk they create when they outsource core tasks prospect.org/infrastructu...
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
While my institution produces scholars, not airplanes, your post feels applicable right now to many workplace cultures.
I've been told by experts that anything that rolled out of the South Carolina facility is not to be trusted. It's a red state thing. They cut corners in them by avoiding OSHA and killing safety.
See also Brexit.
Was Boeing like this before United Airlines Flight 811?
When profit maximization and minimal regulation are combined, inequality surges and lives are put at risk
You have to have people running things who know how to make something other than money, it's really that simple. I don't, as a general rule, trust any self-identified "Businessmen" or most people with an MBA. Nor anybody who idolizes that crap.
"Hey we're gonna bust the unions and make heaps of money.. also gonna kill a whole bunch of people and destroy our own company but WE'RE GONNA BUST THE UNIONS" Who do you think has the strongest interest in a well performing long term business? Not the job hopping exec chasing short term bonuses
This happens all over. This very thing happens in school districts too. I’ve seen it happen and it happened to me this year. They don’t want to pay teachers who are not tenured with masters. If you are older and have experience, forget it. They only want young, out of school teachers.
This description is a superb paraphrase of my views on our current IT help desk.
Just depressing as fuck because I worked for one such company and was fired “laid off” for siding with the manufacturing floor who were rebelling against management for malpractice.