February 16, 2011

The Remarklable 10 Year Outsourcing Cluster Fuck

In a nice summary, we see the remarkable  fuck up of the 787 production, which has gone on at least ten years, delayed its launch by 3 or 4, cost billions extra and unbuilt some of their most profitable operations in Washington state in a quixotic quest for the magical profits from outsourcing.  First the unions told them, then the outside analysts, then the academics, then the state, their own analysts, Airbus's analysts, their own workers, who couldn't help noticing the bolts didn't fit, their engineers, their middle management, their upper management, and now - taking a brief pause for fucking up the tanker contract with bribery- finally their top management, a decade into it, and with the delays of the 787 missing an incredible opportunity to dominate the market- they make grumbling burp-like noises which indicate that perhaps they finally realize their corporate American worker-bashing ideology was not good business.

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