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Boeing Finds More Misdrilled Holes on 737 in Latest Setback::(Bloomberg) -- Boeing Co. found more mistakes with holes drilled in the fuselage of its 737 Max jet, a setback that could further slow deliveries on a critical program already restricted by regulators over quality lapses. Most Read from BloombergWhy NYC Apartment Buildings Are on Sale Now for 50% OffPowell Tells ‘60 Minutes’ Fed Is Wary of Cutting Rates Too SoonEastern Europe’s Richest Woman Pivots $43 Billion Empire WestChina Tightens Some Trading Restrictions for Domestic and Offshore Investor

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Have Boeing considered simply not fucking up the building of their main product?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (2 children)

But then the executives will make less money

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago

Oh shit, yeah, that’s true. Didn’t think of that ‘cause I’m just a regular guy without a business degree.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

More likely the issue is they would need to find/hire competent executives, not friends/family/insider nepo-folk. This will be a challenge for a board comprised of friends/family/insider nepo-folk.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Instead of doing most shit in-house, they contracted out shit tons of parts to the lowest bidder and they jenga all the pieces together. Kind of like when you buy an hp laptop, even though HP doesn't make a single piece of their laptop (or even assemble the things). They just arrange for all the pieces they want from all the component manufacturers and buy the parts and have them shipped to the assembly plant that's to be used.

[–] abhibeckert 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Instead of doing most shit in-house, they contracted out shit tons of parts to the lowest bidder

No that's not true. What happened is they found things that were not profitable to do in-house and sold those off (they found investors willing to take over their non-profitable production lines).

... the investors simply cut costs in order to make it profitable. Which is predictable, what else were they going to do? Obviously an investor expects to make money on their investment.

Now Boeing is basically stuck - they can't make the parts in house, because they don't have enough staff, and their only supplier sucks, and there is no other supplier.

[–] Plopp 9 points 9 months ago

The world's tiniest violin...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Isn't their main product weapons?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I suppose a weapon is something that falls from the sky causing death. So yeah.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Defense, Space and Cybersecurity account for 39% of Boeing's revenue.

[–] jaybone 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. I wonder what they do in the cybersecurity area.

[–] agent_flounder 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Drill holes in the wrong places?

[–] Dremor 1 points 9 months ago

Not having the documents detailing how they knew for years about all of this and did nothing leaked sound a pretty good reason to me.

[–] eager_eagle 53 points 9 months ago (1 children)

hey, good thing they're finding issues before they become more problems

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Yeah they are finally doing their due dillies. Totally fine to find issues during production. That's what QC is for.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wait wasn’t it homer who was adding speed hole not Krusty? Or am I Mandela effecting.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

IIRC its homer dressed as Krusty after clown college, and the mob are shooting at him because they think he's Krusty

[–] jaybone 3 points 9 months ago

Oh that’s right. Thank you.

[–] Ghostalmedia 20 points 9 months ago

Well, that’s a bot summery if I’ve ever seen one.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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😂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Dat metadata run on

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ah c’mon. What’s a few misdrilled holes between friends?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How again do we ping the bot devs on this one?

[–] Dremor 1 points 9 months ago

Try dm the bot