After what started as an eight-day mission, US astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore have now spent the better part of a month on their space capsule attached to the International Space Station as engineers work out the problems with Starliner.
@#3 ... Guess this pretty much puts to restthe company's old gung-ho "If It Isn't Boeing, I'm Not Going" slogan. ...
Yup.
When Boeing went from engineer management of the company to MBA management of the company after the merger, profit (and not safety) seems to have become its calling card.
Boeing CEO defends his safety record, spars with senators and apologizes to crash victims' relatives (June 18, 2024)
apnews.com
... "This hearing is a moment of reckoning," the subcommittee chairman, Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said. "It's about a company, a once iconic company, that somehow lost its way."
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., placed the blame squarely on Calhoun, saying that the man who became CEO in January 2020 had been too focused on the bottom line.
"You are cutting corners, you are eliminating safety procedures, you are sticking it to your employees, you are cutting back jobs because you are trying to squeeze very piece of profit you can out of this company," Hawley said, his voice rising. "You are strip-mining Boeing."
Hawley repeatedly mentioned Calhoun's compensation for last year, valued at $32.8 million, and asked the CEO why he hasn't resigned. ...
While i sometimes disagree (strongly) with Sen Hawley, I think his opinion in this matter is spot-on.
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