Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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“Boeing whistleblower says he was told ‘frankly, to shut up’ after 3 years of raising aircraft quality concerns: ‘This is the hell that I was subjected to’”
“Instead of addressing his concerns, he said, Boeing brass shut him down, part of a broader trend within the company of brushing off safety concerns in the name of productivity and the bottom line.”
Powerful and influential for-profit companies, 100% support their whistleblower employees right? Who would want to be actively complicit with any other treatment of a whistleblower?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/boeing-whistleblower-says-told-frankly-214347933.html
Most employees would obviously not want to be identified as “actively complicit”. And, if too many employees became aware of unlawful or retaliatory treatment, the odds of one of them squealing or making a revealing mistake will increase.
A more likely path of being treated like “hell”, is to keep the intent and goal of such treatment limited to a few key individuals, and then systematically leverage other employees not acutely “in the know”, with workplace tasks that indirectly support the abusive treatment, until the desired end goal is achieved. Ugly, but it does occur and it can lead to high levels of stress, hardship, or worse for the subject of such abuse, whatever age that person is. We can do better.
In the United States in particular there have been not that many fatalities on either Boeing or Airbus flights in the last 20 years -- perhaps because a lot of these other factors are dealt with well thanks to FAA and other agency regulations and safety work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft_in_the_United_States