I sent this my sis just this afternoon when she e-mailed saying Boeing has texts from test pilots about the erratic nature of the hor stab system. I was on the 737NG flight test program back in 1997 and tested all models except the 737-900 that was tested in California at Edwards AFB to utilize some of the Long Beach assets that Boeing had just acquired.
Yep. I fought
the corruption there where I found it, but it was pretty deep. Good old
boys system. Go along to get along….
The guys who dug
their heels in on the 737Max, got fired. Twenty + year employees that I
worked for back on the 737NG days before and after 9/11.
Thankfully, I was
off that program by the time the 737Max program came along and was working in
the factory in Everett. I do not miss those days and the power politics.
Even in the
factory, there were cover-ups where I had the Factory General manager barking at
me for “holding up 2.1 billion in airplanes on the 777 line”…. He said,
“I will have your badge in two weeks”. I was calm on the outside but my
feet were like prunes at the end of the day. Sweating profusely…..
In the end, I got both Design and MRB Stress groups to back me and I punked him
hard with a 32 page powerpoint stating that his position was full of
crap. I should have gone to the FAA on that one. QC and third shift
production managers were in on that cover-up (major critical damage to a 777
hor stab when a strap between it and the crane busted and it slammed into a
super-critical area of the fuselage). I was told that the last guy who
did what I was doing got “run over in the parking lot”.
Killed my career
– but I did the right thing. I ended up licking my wounds and going to
the 747 program where I found more hellish corruption. Almost got fired
twice because I refused to back down on a couple of things. Had to have
some heavy hitters come to my defense and kept me in the saddle. In the
end, taking the severance when they laid off 12,000 engineers was the right
thing. Coming to Cardston was the right thing for us.
Stupid POS’s I had
to work for though…. Great, fun, cutting edge work – but a political
minefield when cost, schedule and stock price were king over quality and
safety…..
I cannot wait for
the time when I can work in a Zion society for terrestrial or higher people.
Before Boeing I
worked at Theratech and one of my co-workers was a Stake Patriarch. That
place was probably the most politically charged and corrupt places I have
worked laced with big pharma boys from the east coast. I always felt for
him – because he was a good man. How do you maintain a level of
spirituality required for that calling when you have to slog through the sh!@#$
with back-stabbing, conniving pieces of work?!? I put it in the Lord’s
hands, and my boss Preziosi (a NJ mafioso) got fired and thrown to the curb by
his wife). I create wreckage where ever I go precisely because corruption
hits integrity and integrity is paying his tithing and trying to do what he is
supposed to – and God judges between the two and punks the punks.
I guess, now that I
think about it, things are not so bad here in Canada…. Still have to deal
with a few major POS’s – but it is tolerable compared to some of the crap I
have had to deal with. Cannot wait for retirement….. I will shelter
in the temple and finish out with hopefully some of the best people I can
find. I still have a long way to go before I am ready to meet God – so
the more good shoulders I can rub, the better…..
Terrible!
From: The Seattle Times <info@email.seattletimes.com>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2019 12:57 PMSent: Friday, October 18, 2019 12:57 PM
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