evilgenius wrote:[
How about Boeing? That CEO just got canned, after the fact. You wanted an example. That's just a very public one. Since the 737 Max crisis hit the company, I've seen several employees interviewed who tried to tell somebody about something wrong with the plane.
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Or, again, I recently read a story about how a major car company in the US had allowed SUV's to roll off of the assembly line with too many defects. I can't remember which one, or I would say their name. They were warned as well.
Jesus Christ. Have you EVER WORKED for a large company?
Do you imagine that in large companies, everyone agrees with every decision? Or that every decision management makes is AT ALL competent?
Trust me, after working for IBM for 26+ years (which used to be a very highly regarded company in the 50's - 70's), I saw MASSIVE disagreements over MANY MANY things with virtually EVERY significant product -- which went on for days, months, and years.
There were a lot of competent technicians who wanted to see their product succeed, but management didn't have a clue, or was more interested in due dates, or wanted to be promoted, or whatever.
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If you want to live somewhere that such things aren't the norm, try planet Vulcan, because you're not likely to find it ANYWHERE in a large company (which Boeing is, of course) on planet earth.
Very SIMPLE things like how to budget, how to invest, how to treat the work force, what the rules should be, much less EVERY significant aspect of a major project are all blatantly obvious examples of this, again, on planet earth.
(I suspect the same is true for 99%+ of small companies, but unlike large corporations with public records, there's less data to tell.)