Maggie's Farm

This is reminiscent of the text that one of the Ukrainian diplomats sent to his boss that openly questioned Trump's motives. Obviously the intent was to make a record that could be used to pursue a political agenda which we see unfolding today.

I suppose that an engineer could be so dense/unwise as to put this in writing never intending that it would be used by ambulance chasing lawyers to extract a few billion from his company. BUT I suspect that the author of that memo and others had an agenda. Boeing has a strained relationship between it's union and it's employees. It seems that making in excess of $100K for putting planes together just isn't enough so they have to sabotage the company with incredibly ill considered emails. What you are seeing is the union and pro-union employees sticking it to Boeing.

The 737 Max is a good plane, nothing is wrong with the airframe. I does have a software problem. BUT it is important to understand that these planes are complex and some of the "shithole" countries have pilots who simply do not have the training to fly these planes. The software problem can be and was over ridden by competent pilots many times. Yes I would agree it shouldn't have been necessary for the pilot to have to deal with and aggressive software problem but their training gives them the knowledge to do it. Boeing should have been more proactive because they know better than anyone else in the world that less than competent pilots do indeed fly their planes. THAT was Boeing's fault. BUT that is a world away from the claim that the plane was designed by clowns.

In the end the truth won't matter. A few disgruntled or stupid employees will bring Boeing to the brink of bankruptcy. A large fleet of perfectly good planes will most likely be scrapped. Dozens of lawyers will become multi-millionaires overnight. 99.99% of the world will believe that the plane itself was badly designed and not understand it was nothing more than a few lines of code.

Note to all corporations: If you have an employee who writes crap like this fire them immediately. That person is either too stupid to understand what they did OR they are traitors.

Well you are 50% correct. My state has two congressmen that I consider to be fair people. They are not stupid and they are not far left (i.e. socialist/communist). But the mouth the same blather as their communist colleagues, they defend them and their agenda and they blatantly lie in interviews when discrepancies in their party's line is questioned. So what is the difference between a hard line, anti-American, left leaning Democrat who would sacrifice their country to get rid of Trump AND a moderate Democrat who will tell the same lies and do the same actions in support of the far left commie democrat???