Interesting.
Didn't the Mason-Dixon Line separate the industrialized North from the agricultural South when it was created?
Nowadays it seems to be the opposite
Interesting.
Didn't the Mason-Dixon Line separate the industrialized North from the agricultural South when it was created?
Nowadays it seems to be the opposite
Moving some production to a nonunion plant didn't do Boeing a whole hell of a lot of good.Originally Posted by fatdog
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
I am actually surprised that it took that long for them to GTFO of that state.
Like many companies which have union workforces, issues with the products are usually not due to the union's fault. Unions can make a product more expensive but rarely are unions the systemic cause of poor quality products. In Boeing's case, it appears there are three issues: 1) Management wanting to lower costs (what else is new) without understanding the risks involved in doing so, 2) Replacing experienced SW developers with lower-cost developers without domain knowledge and experience, and 3) a cultural willingness to lie and deceive the customer and regulator (FAA) once adverse test results were available.
Are you referring to the 737 Max problems? Pretty sure that was an engineering problem, not a production problem.
787s, for if memory serves, at leat one airline won’t accept the ones from the SC plant.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
Troy, AL should have low cost of living with Montgomery being just up the road to the North. Nice little college town with available land in Pike county at reasonable cost.
Hunting and fishing everywhere. Lockheed/Martin used to have an operation in Pike county.
Florida beaches not that far to the south. I think their population is like 20k now.
Regards.
That is really a shame too, as the Colt factory is a super cool place. However watching some of the Union slug workers deliberately move as slow as possible was demoralizing. It seemed like there was one guy who was moving quickly around, working his butt off, while there were 7-8 people ambling around who could care less.
I have long thought (pipe-dream after a couple visits) about going in there and doing something similar to an "undercover boss", working as a maintenance guy for 3 months, and taking a list of all the hard working employees, and all the slugs, and getting a feel for the place, talking to people.
Then come back with a tie on and hold a meeting to announce that I have bought the place and here is a list of who stays and who goes.
#MakeThePonyGreatAgain
sigh, pipe-dreams
Within a couple hours of the nation's first all-electric car ferry, too.
That is really a shame too, as the Colt factory is a super cool place. However watching some of the Union slug workers deliberately move as slow as possible was demoralizing. It seemed like there was one guy who was moving quickly around, working his butt off, while there were 7-8 people ambling around who could care less.
I have long thought (pipe-dream after a couple visits) about going in there and doing something similar to an "undercover boss", working as a maintenance guy for 3 months, and taking a list of all the hard working employees, and all the slugs, and getting a feel for the place, talking to people.
Then come back with a tie on and hold a meeting to announce that I have bought the place and here is a list of who stays and who goes....
A few years ago, someone asked me what I'd do with a $150M Powerball payout. What you just posted was exactly what I thought of.
Though I figured I'd be a custodian/janitor - easy mindless work saves my eyes and ears for everything else. Plus, speaking from experience in the Army, your people will respect you more if they've seen you scrub a toilet.
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