NEWS ANALYSIS
‘I Honestly Don’t Trust Many People at Boeing’: A Broken Culture Exposed
A trove of internal employee communications shows that the aviation giant’s troubles go beyond one poorly designed plane.
Stan Sorscher, a former Boeing engineer who then worked with a union representing company engineers, said priorities had shifted over the past two decades, with profits mattering more than quality.
“Engineers normally just don’t talk that way,” Mr. Sorscher said of the messages. “It’s not the company I knew.”
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(with apologies to Stephen Sondheim)
That was the plan all along
to build the world's
great-est aer-o-planes
and not to focus of short term gains
That's what you did at Boeing
It's not that nothing went wrong
In engineering
things always do
but we could fix them
because we knew
that's what you did at Boeing
But then the suits got all pissed
and insisted stock price first
all the time
And they called qual control
rig-mor-ole, my God,
they were slime
The engineers went along
and they cut corners
to save a buck,
and crossed their fingers
and pushed their luck
That was the end of Boeing,
the com-pan-y's swan song
You were a great co, Boeing
Boeing's
gone