my uncle worked at boeing for 30 years. high school grad, worked his way up to facility manufacturing lead and then a specialist who goes around the world to different boeing manufacturing and reviews them/gets them up to speed and fixes fuck ups. he routinely traveled to france and china. he quit early 2010 or so. even after boeing offered him quadruple his current salary for half a year. he said he couldnt take it anymore, the flying was brutal, but dealing with the french and chinese were awful (he also specifically told us to never fly any french or chinese boeing airplane) he also had to fix a lot more fuckups, and was getting tired of going to the same ones over and over again with no changes to leadership there. cronyism, nepotism and ineptitude is what he called the new boeing, and wouldnt dare go back to a 600,000 payday for 6 months of work. this was back in 2010/11...
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