Originally Posted by
Excargodog
I have some friends/ college buds who work at a major aircraft and defense manufacturer (that isn’t Airbus) specifically in project management. COVID sort of forced work at home initially, but after a few months the company polled them to see if they would LIKE to continue working from home because productivity was actually increased. And an overwhelming majority were happy to give up the five hours a week of commuting in Seattle traffic. And the company was happy to decrease their commercial property footprint In a town that is becoming increasingly anti-business. Pretty much a win-win.
Now if they could only get their factory workers to stop leaving The damn FOD in the fuel tanks on their tankers...
What do you think caused that? Lazy or improperly trained line workers or managers pushing productivity so hard that critical steps are being skipped?
Fortunately because of this mess it looks like I'll be flying old junk for a while but it worries me that 787 wiring harnesses are being abrated by metal shavings because some clown couldn't be bothered to take 30 seconds with a shop vac.
I'm also 100% positive that airlines don't conduct the sort of pre/post delivery inspections the military does. So whatever the military is finding is in civilian airliners but is being ignored. Maybe now is a good time since they are all parked and mechanics need some hours.