• @[email protected]
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    10328 days ago

    Monthly reminder that Boeing still has astronauts stranded on the ISS after what was supposed to be a ~1 week mission.

  • Rentlar
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    6028 days ago

    I’m very glad the UAW strike brought the concept of labour power back into the national conversation for both USA and Canada. The reasons for work disruptions and affordability stagnating is blamed on “lazy workers” less often now than before.

  • @[email protected]
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    4228 days ago

    Are we out-of-touch?

    No, it’s all the students, recruiters, and job-seekers that are wrong.

  • @[email protected]
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    Probably explains why there’s two astronauts stuck on a space station, and they have to resort to murdering whistleblowers…

      • @[email protected]
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        227 days ago

        How many employees do you think an employer should be allowed to murder before you would consider it a reason not to apply for a job there?

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                Also lets not forget that work contracts, just like trial Disney+ streaming terms of service, can include Mandatory Arbitrage clauses in case of dispute, so people will be signing away for life their right to not be murdered to get even just some temp work.

  • @[email protected]
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    2128 days ago

    The nickel-and-diming of the workers is particularly galling, Haala said, because for Boeing, labor accounts for only 3 to 5 percent of the cost of an airplane.

    From my rough searches, these planes cost roughly $250-400 million each.

    • @[email protected]
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      Presumably a lot of the actual labor costs are hidden in outsourced parts of the build process.

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          126 days ago

          What is the expensive part you imagine about QC that isn’t labor? I mean sure, you need the occasional destructive test and some fuel and hangar rent but mainly it is people doing the quality control checks.

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    Wow great article and Elon said its because of DEI policies and HBCUs. “Don’t look at all the money I have from being a greedy asshole, it’s because of (insert marginalized class or people here)”.

  • @[email protected]
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    1528 days ago

    I knew a design engineer that came from Canada and… Well it’s what he told me, he was one of the top in his field in Canada. He made art in his spare time and it was top quality original shit. Anyone from the Seattle art scene knew him.

    He’d talk about how downhill Boeing was becoming, 10 years ago.

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    “When are these fucking peasants going to realize that Boeing’s Fiduciary Responsiblilty (TM Milton Friendman’s Estate) is to the fucking shareholders?! They should be on their fucking hands and knees, blowing us, that we even allow them to breathe the air in our plants!”

  • @[email protected]
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    1028 days ago

    They don’t even want to increase salary to hire professionals. Begging for unpaid wages

  • @[email protected]
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    226 days ago

    Gosh. Replace management with a bunch of useless fuckwits, pay below minimum wage, murder hundreds of customers (including one of my friend’s Dad), and nobody wants to work there? Who’d have ever guessed?

  • @[email protected]
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    Boing boing is running recruitment ads in INDIA. So expect more or less sleep 100; activate l_r_boosters ; sleep 10; deactivate l_r_boosters; sleep 10 ; if [ progname = ‘MCAS’ ]; then crash_boing_boing_into_the_ground; else crash_boing_boing_anyway ; fi