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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on December 19, 2016, 07:58:36 PM
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Boeing Co's (BA.N) commercial airplane unit said on Monday it would cut an as-yet-undetermined number of jobs in 2017 after slashing its workforce by 8 percent in 2016, as it struggles to sell planes in the face of a strong dollar.
Boeing said last week that it would cut 777 production to five a month in August 2017, a 40 percent reduction from the current rate of 8.3 a month, because of slow sales.
The company did not say how many jobs it will cut next year, noting it is still assessing its 2017 budget and employment needs.
But the announcement shows the world's biggest plane maker is axing jobs more aggressively than it forecast earlier this year, and that it will not let up the pressure to cut costs under the new chief executive of the airplane unit, Kevin McAllister, who succeeded Ray Conner on Nov. 21. Conner is now vice chairman of Boeing Co.
For 2016, Boeing said it expects job reductions to total 8 percent of the commercial airplane workforce, including a 10 percent reduction in the ranks of executives and managers.
The unit cut 6,115 jobs, or 7.3 percent, through November compared with the tally on Dec. 31, 2015, according to Boeing's employment data. That suggests a further 565 job reductions in 2016, and more next year. In March, the company said it planned to cut about 4,000 jobs at the unit.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-layoffs-idUSKBN14826M
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I WISH they would lay me off. I am soooo ready. 33 years is long enough! They keep giving me good performance reviews so that means I have to stick around. :(
Wife wants me to stick it out until 59 years old (3 years) but in reality we're financially ready now. GAH! Stuck between a rock and a hard wife, er place.
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The wife has a hard. :eek:
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I WISH they would lay me off. I am soooo ready. 33 years is long enough! They keep giving me good performance reviews so that means I have to stick around. :(
Wife wants me to stick it out until 59 years old (3 years) but in reality we're financially ready now. GAH! Stuck between a rock and a hard wife, er place.
You said that now wait until you retired, if that is your plan.
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Everyone I have met in the aero industry are arrogant and see themselves as elites among the workforce.
Why should I care if an overpaid fitter loses his job.
Nagasaki, Hiroshima...........Detroit?
What's made is in Detroit?
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The trucks that enabled the soviets to rescue the usa and the uk from the hun.
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What's made in these cities today?
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See Rule #14
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Everyone I have met in the aero industry are arrogant and see themselves as elites among the workforce.
Why should I care if an overpaid fitter loses his job.
Nagasaki, Hiroshima...........Detroit?
What's made is in Detroit?
So you're saying you don't like people smarter than you? Is that the real issue we're talking here? :x
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These sorts are losing their jobs becuase they are overpaid, the Germans are next with their over inflated wages.
A chinese,indian or a Korean will be doing the same job for 1/5 of the cost.
Thats what Boeing will be doing over the next twenty years, sending the work abroad.
We make big macs in the Uk and Rolls Royce engines that set on fire :rofl
I am cheap so i will always have a job :)
You wear sandles with socks you freak
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When traveling at 550 knots 6 miles up in an un-breathable atmosphere I feel safer knowing someone got paid just a little bit more for putting together a quality product.
YMMV
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Well you're right and you're wrong, someone working on an assembly line should've never been getting better pay and benefits than teachers, nurses and police. Remember in the usa your job is also your medical/dental/eye care, and you're wife's and your children's for that matter. Well it used to be, now walmart is the number 1 private sector employer in the usa and they pay poverty wages, and healthcare? Forget about it. The unions hurt the manufacturing sector, but it was another monster all together that annihilated it.
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When traveling at 550 knots 6 miles up in an unbreathable atmosphere I feel safer knowing someone got paid just a little bit more for putting together a quality product.
YMMV
Amen, brother!
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Also that bit about the Korean's doing it for 1/5 is very not correct. They're on the level, South Korea is a modern robot building collegiate educated society up here with Japan, Germany, Canada and the UK in terms of technology, economy and sex drugs and rock n roll.
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South Korea is funded by Japanese investment, the US forced the Japs to invest in South Korea with threats of trade tariffs.
Japan is owned by the US since 1945.
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Well this is being steered tight into the deep end of the political pool, regardless of the one post being edited for that violation.