Boeing: layoff uncertainty and your productivity
As events unfold daily, the situation looks more and more like layoffs are all but certain at Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Between mandatory work-from-home and the looming threat of layoffs, how productive are you relative to “normal” productivity? Personally, I’d say I’m a 75%. Until someone tells me “you are absolutely keeping your job” that’s just going to keep decreasing..
Boeing lays off during a freaking global pandemic and nobody will ever forget it
Boeing should be getting bailout and hopefully most of you can hold your jobs
Why does Boeing deserve a bailout? They are a fully for-profit business that built bad products that killed hundreds of people. Imagine if AWS was killing people. You think Amazon would get a bailout?
Get bailout, lay-off employees anyway, pocket proceeds.
You guys underestimate the incompetence and malice of our senior leadership. These are people that have not only completely failed to prepare for any emergency but, when the emergencies came, have done such a spectacularly terrible job of leading the company through it, that it will remain a case study in corporate arrogance and malfeasance in business management textbooks for the next century.
Speaking of incompetence, how’s the new CEO? Is he “business as usual” of just talking a good game?
Hard to say. In his first few weeks, he certainly sounded earnest in public interviews (too earnest, some would say; just look them up) and company messaging, made some necessary program cuts. It’s hard to measure his performance now; he was brought in to lead us out of the ramifications of a black swan event, not to support the company as we endure yet another one, but his work statement just got a lot bigger... He’s still a reactionary, bureaucratic, shortsighted bastard. All of those worthless bean counters in Chicago are. But that’s just my opinion 🙃
Dont worry, the govt as part the terms for the loan will make sure Boeing doesnt do mass layoffs at this time. That is, if the bill gets passed in time.
I kinda feel like no company wants to be the first to announce a massive layoff but many are planning it
Boeing did a massive stock buy back to inflate company value while same time allowing and then looking the other way on the Max scandal. This and not so much the pandemic is the cause for Boeing's ailments. The pandemic is just a nail in the coffin.
Boeing’s gotten to the too big to fail status. Even if it should fail, the gov won’t let it. If it failed, then there will be a void for their 3 party suppliers, vendors, and contractors...and that sends a shock up and down the chain
I thought Boeing already laid off it’s americans to outsource the code. Then the combination of crap code bugs and crap pilots crashed some planes and killed people. Who’s left to lay-off?
Piece of shit company that got its ass handed to it by airbus. Disgrace to America
Lol you work at Home Depot....pot calling the kettle black.
Care to elaborate? We have our short comings at Home Depot but we didn’t murder 600+ people trying to catchup to airbus
Boeing provides good pay to unskilled workers. You have sheet metal and painters making 200k/yr with OT.
I get and agree with your point but “unskilled workers” is the wrong phrase here. The tradesmen and tradeswomen that work there are wildly competent, highly educated (if not academically, then through very specialized on the job training) and worth every cent of their wage and more
My dad was a machinist there he didn’t make $200k lol. Wish he did though he might have been less of a cheap skate when I was growing up
Did you mean to post this in the Boeing channel?
Yeah, I’m a Boeing engineer. Boeing has this habit of doing mass MASS layoffs in crisis times and there’s no crisis like a plane grounding followed by a global pandemic. Our share price is a quarter of what it was last year and our factory just halted production (temporarily) but there has been no layoff talk coming from our HQ. So we’re all just sort of stewing here..