mraniki@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoBoeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down in management shakeup amid safety crisiswww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-square5C5C5C@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoBy all credible accounts the systemic issues at Boeing predate this CEO by probably 2 decades. Dave Calhoun seems to specialize in “troubled companies”, i.e. he has never been anything more than a professional scape goat.
minus-squaredb2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoIf it comes with golden parachutes it’s all but guaranteed he doesn’t care.
minus-squareZron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoIf I got millions of dollars every time a company went down in flames around me, I’d carry around a can of gas and matches. He was CEO, he could have implemented policies to alleviate these issues. Instead he kept the status quo. He belongs in jail, not another board room.
minus-squareturkishdelight@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoDidn’t he hold senior positions in Boeing much longer than he has been CEO?
minus-square5C5C5C@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoYou’re right, he was there since 2009, so he has probably been helping to design the cannibalization, but it certainly didn’t begin with him.
minus-squarefuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoHe was responsible for the figurative nosedive my boss’ previous company did. Now he’s responsible for the literal nosedive of Boeing. This man is a professional company ruiner, not just a scape goat.
minus-squareRentlar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoCalhoun’s MCAS might have been set incorrectly 👀
By all credible accounts the systemic issues at Boeing predate this CEO by probably 2 decades. Dave Calhoun seems to specialize in “troubled companies”, i.e. he has never been anything more than a professional scape goat.
If it comes with golden parachutes it’s all but guaranteed he doesn’t care.
If I got millions of dollars every time a company went down in flames around me, I’d carry around a can of gas and matches.
He was CEO, he could have implemented policies to alleviate these issues. Instead he kept the status quo.
He belongs in jail, not another board room.
Didn’t he hold senior positions in Boeing much longer than he has been CEO?
You’re right, he was there since 2009, so he has probably been helping to design the cannibalization, but it certainly didn’t begin with him.
He was responsible for the figurative nosedive my boss’ previous company did. Now he’s responsible for the literal nosedive of Boeing.
This man is a professional company ruiner, not just a scape goat.
Calhoun’s MCAS might have been set incorrectly 👀