[S_A_P]

What I don’t understand is how does Boeing expect to make the issues go away? Covering up the problems just kicks the can down the road. They still have shoddy planes out in the world. Is quarterly performance now more important than not having planes fall out of the sky somewhere later on? I guess I’m naive here.

[fullshark]

Boeing isn't a person, it's a collection of individuals all trying to further their career. That's another executive's problem, their job is just to maximize their career earnings / potential while at boeing and then jump ship when the timing makes sense to.

[walleeee]

The pathological incentives pressuring people to behave in this way must be distinguished from the (perhaps idealized) job itself, as well as from actual people's actual behavior, which is not homogenous. When we describe things as you do, we risk reinforcing the diffusion of responsibility and slash and burn careerism that leads to this sort of mess.

People can maintain integrity and agency in environments which discourage such. It takes some sacrifice, but the more people tend to agree with and embody the previous sentence, the less it takes from each individual, and the more social inertia kicks in to aid the resistance.

The belief that some outcome is inevitable is often the primary obstacle to its evitability.

[dfxm12]

Whistleblowers dying in suspicious circumstances is more about sending a message to potential future whistleblowers than anything else.

[goku12]

The NTSB is bearing down on Boeing to give up the names of the staff that worked on the Alaska Airlines aircraft whose door plug blew out. At this rate, Boeing wont have to worry about whistleblowers. The investigation alone will be enough to open that can of worms.

[ClumsyPilot]

I will believe it when I see it, can’t recall the last time a major executive went to prison

[ahartman00]

"VW executive given the maximum prison sentence for his role in Dieselgate"

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/6/16743308/volkswagen-olive...