[projektfu]

Potentially the result when you rob workers of the right to pride in workmanship. The most common complaint from old Boeing people who have left is that after the merger the McDonnell-Douglas people took over and the company switched from pride in engineering and quality of workmanship to cost cutting and bean counting. Also, shortly after the merger the corporate HQ moved, reflecting the priorities of the CEO. It has since moved again, apparently to be better for lobbying.

[p_l]

The original move was also related to lobbying potential.

But the CEO who started the moves etc. was a Boeing lifer.

[projektfu]

The original move to Chicago was for lobbying? I figured it was more of moving where the CEO wanted to live.

[p_l]

No, the reasoning officially was to move closer to acquired companies and better lobbying especially for defense involvement

[jmpwat]

yep but then the jack welch acolytes moved in and exponentially worsened it

[p_l]

Many suggest that Phil Condit got seduced by Welch school late on...