• Snapz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You think it had anything to do with those planes breaking apart in the sky?

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    Too bad they’re a defense contractor and “too big to fail”.
    Every one of those lost orders will come out of the pockets of US taxpayers when Boeing is bailed out.

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      1 year ago

      When the Boeing plane crashes and explodes >:(

      When the Boeing rocket crashes and explodes >:D

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    There’s a “vote for strike” sign posted on airport road by their Everett facility. I’m guessing there will be a strike? I didn’t see the firefighter strike anymore for a few days now. I haven’t heard if they succeeded in what they were looking for.

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    1 year ago

    wow, you get one two a handful of planes fall apart in air and suddenly you’re not “reliable” anymore. this is woke cancel culture at work!

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    When you run an engineering company as a business, you wind up with no business at all

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      “Made in USA” is well on it’s way from being a symbol of quality to implying a lack of. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big proponent of domestic manufacturing. But there are an outsized number of executives who don’t seem to get that when you make shitty products, you will alienate all your customers who will then no longer buy your shitty products. That kind of reputational damage is incredibly hard to recover from. Especially when you make airplanes that have a tendency to fall out of the sky which is sort of a deal breaker for people who want to buy an airplane. Hope it was worth jacking up their stock price for five minutes.

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        well on it’s way from being a symbol of quality

        US Cars have been an international joke since the 70s. And Boeing’s success is largely in contrast to McDonald Douglas, which crapped out back in the 90s and was forced into a merger to get bailed out. This isn’t an issue of “American Quality” so much as it is an issue of “Traditional manufacturing methodology” being whittled away over time by profit-obsessed shareholders and C-levels.

        Boeing was a little late to the party, but that’s got nothing to do with American symbology. Everyone from Intel to Burger King have been on this trajectory for decades.

        Hope it was worth jacking up their stock price for five minutes.

        It was for the CEOs who already cashed out and abandoned the company, yes.