This 2019 story feels relevant today. Did it end with the 737 Max—or was it policy? Cutting costs to near-minimum wage shouldn’t be priority over lives & safety.
📌 Boeing outsourced 737 Max software coding to $9/hour engineers, laying off in-house talent & subcontracting offshore to save money
📌 Boeing outsourced 737 Max software coding to $9/hour engineers, laying off in-house talent & subcontracting offshore to save money
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In particular, taking a critical control input (AoA, Angle of Attack) from just one sensor when there are always two meant that if the AoA sensor was bad, there was no way for the pilots to know.
The software could have compared the inputs from the two AoA sensors, and determined that they differed, and turned MCAS off.
That was in fact the fix for this problem, and should have been in the initial design.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeings-long-fall-and-how-it-might-recover/
The same as $2.50 isn't going to get you much of a hooker.
Like Elon Musk others have had their fun with laying off US workers and use cheap foreigners from primarily India instead.
A story about Boeing and how their greed ended in deadly crashes.
https://www.industryweek.com/supply-chain/article/22027840/boeings-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers
Trump will be encouraging such consolidation, at the behest of both his masters (Vlad and Elon). Vlad, because it will promote the downfall of the USA; Elon, because it will make him short-term profits.
1. Lower costs of manpower and layoffs.
2. Government subsidies via lower taxes, and payments for services - coming out of our collective pockets.
Some companies hire engineering students and give them the title of engineer but they are not in aviation. Let’s hope this isn’t the case
«Why is your cruise missiles so inexpensive as opposed to your competiors?»
«We used Claude to program the guidance system»
It’s a management con.
The reason they had a sterling reputation is because they had the best engineers and they earned it.
I'm a finance guy, and I'd never put a finance guy in charge of an engineering company.
They're wrong. They don't like hearing they're wrong. But I keep telling them. I expect I'll get fired at some point.
Indian Standard English is not British, nor American Standard English. Miscommunications happen as a result. Numerous cultural barriers exist too.
Shocking
Cutting costs by offshoring your labour force.
It’s what happens when your shareholders become more important than your employees or your customers.
Are H-1B visas a modern "indentured servitude" since if a modern "slave" does not work 80+ hours a week muskrat can deport them?
How does this help American workers?
Not only was it a $$-saving move; it was mostly done w/fresh computer science grads in India, as a condition by the Indian govt. to purchase many Boeing planes in exchange for "investment" in India.
“Significant losses:
Boeing has reported losses in nearly every quarter since the 737 MAX grounding in 2019.
As of 2023, Boeing had losses of over $34B since 2019, now $58B+ in debt.
Boeing just arranged another $35B in loans.
Capitalism failure.
Other countries started to when the second crash happened. Finally, with 350 dead, the FAA took action.
Cabinet picks MATTER!
He damn near destroyed 3M Company in our state (Minnesota) prior.
Boeing might not survive
China has started producing planes 😳
Am no conspiracy theorist but I see a pattern….
Boeing went from "safety & quality first and profit will follow" to "maximise profits and bonuses will follow".
It's all kind of blown up in their faces.
Even in the 1980s there was no such thing as a $9; engineer students were paid more than that.
They CHOSE to put profits into huge, historic stock buybacks for rich stockholders rather than skilled workers and quality control.
Again.
Ok if it’s a bank, not so airlines ✈️ 💥
Pay peanuts get monkeys.
It’s a real shame the way this industry is now undervalued and under paid.
Deadly food=>$
Deadly trains=>$
Deadly planes=>$
Deadly healthcare rejections=>$
The consequences are always ppl in coffins
https://techweez.com/2025/01/01/ksa-space-ring-makueni-kenya/
Profits first
trump promises to get rid of regulations because businesses find them too expensive
We can see what happens when they do