tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post1482045440609367258..comments2024-03-06T04:35:38.806-06:00Comments on Disaffected and it Feels So Good: How Dare the Government interfere with Boeing! The Free Market is Always Superior!Grung_e_Genehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-6627042720250864692013-01-24T14:27:06.872-06:002013-01-24T14:27:06.872-06:00Yep, and don't I know it. I TOLD my husband t...Yep, and don't I know it. I TOLD my husband the HQ would leave the Pac Nor'west about three years before it happened. <br /><br />To be fair, though? On the "fraudulent overbilling"? At least on the military side, it is not really fraudulent nor intended as overbilling. Part of it is sheer stupidity on the government's part....they send documents the size of "War and Peace" on projects...demands that must be catered to....and every demand costs man hours. And then, the military and government types CHANGE their minds like a woman in a bad 60's sitcom...requiring MORE man hours to make those changes. <br /><br /> Also, some of the price quotes, on planes for instance? The government says, "Ok, what will it cost to make 60 of these." So Boeing (like any manufacturer) averages the price based on that number...it takes in all those "compliance hours", factory set up, and all the rest. Then the government, after awarding the contract, says "Oh, btw, lets just make two dozen, not five." Thing is, all the set up, all the compliance....all THAT, it is the same for 24 or 60....so it UPS the unit price. And then the bean counters scream about being over-billed, which is both dishonest AND disingenuous of them.Syrbal/Labryshttp://www.herlanderwalking.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-22172187207652253852013-01-23T12:43:01.638-06:002013-01-23T12:43:01.638-06:00Notions like Quality Control and workplace morale ...Notions like Quality Control and workplace morale become passe when the Corporate Cost-Benefit analysis is tuned to squeezing as much luche out of any particular contract as possible.<br /><br />So Boeing has been fraudulently overbilling the US Government on contracts has been seeking to move operations to Right-to-Work States and off-shoring manufacturing.<br /><br />All so the CEO and Board can "earn" a few extra millions to hide in the Cayman Islands.<br /><br />Oh and Boeing's CEO W. James McNerney, Jr. is on Fix the Debt’s CEO Council.Grung_e_Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293433952655399056.post-76437665912094508302013-01-23T12:23:27.973-06:002013-01-23T12:23:27.973-06:00Boeing has been my ex-military husband's secon...Boeing has been my ex-military husband's second career. And oh the changes we have seen there...things were run one way before the merger with another airplane company; and a whole 'nother way afterwards.<br /><br />We are both glad he will retire from there in a few more years, possibly before another Presidential election.<br /><br />He doesn't work the civilian side like Dreamliners....but we both think that part of that issue and many other is that Boeing began out-of-house contracting many parts of planes, something they NEVER used to do. Like those troublesome lithium batteries of the Dreamliner, for instance; all made abroad in Japan.Syrbal/Labryshttp://www.herlanderwalking.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com