LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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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