Getting even deeper at Boeing

[Doug M.]

Some places have email archives that preserve everything. I fail to see the value of that as a general rule. I drove the effort to get rid of that abomination at my employer, as it made proper record management impossible. About 90% of email is what we call "transitory" or of no retention value, and should be discarded with alacrity. We mandate record management by each employee in their email program (Outlook), and while I have some stuff that is worth keeping for professional reasons, so of which is proof that I did a particular task or gave certain advice, I delete roughly 500 emails a week.

 

[LVSteve]

Some places have email archives that preserve everything. I fail to see the value of that as a general rule. I drove the effort to get rid of that abomination at my employer, as it made proper record management impossible. About 90% of email is what we call "transitory" or of no retention value, and should be discarded with alacrity. We mandate record management by each employee in their email program (Outlook), and while I have some stuff that is worth keeping for professional reasons, so of which is proof that I did a particular task or gave certain advice, I delete roughly 500 emails a week.

Trouble is these days deleting emails is seen as tampering with evidence, even if said emails were not pertinent.

 

[Univibe]

Soon enough, Boeing will be begging for corporate welfare. Food stamps for capitalists.

 

[smoothshooter]

Or maybe an excellent time. Boeing's not going away.

Correct.
Buy low, sell high.

 

[Doug M.]

I've forwarded some of the articles about Boeing to my brother. (Living 100 miles from Seattle, I read the Seattle Times to be informed about the actions of the enemy.) We've had a couple discussions. Got an envelope from him yesterday with an article from the February 2020 issue of "Fortune" magazine. A scathing analysis of the culture at Boeing, tying its deterioration to the acquisition of M-D and infecting Boeing's excellence driven engineering culture with a dysfunctional short term profit culture. Ugly.

 

[bill2000]

Trouble is these days deleting emails is seen as tampering with evidence, even if said emails were not pertinent.

True enough....unless you were a member of the political class. Why heck, you could probably delete 30K e-mails and skate completely.

 

[LostintheOzone]

I live in the area. I know people that work there in mgmt.

My guess is they will be a lot smaller company in the future. They have military contracts that will keep them going for a very long time but their commercial division is going to be downsized soon. One entire plant was just idled here indefinitely. Buy now, avoid the rush.

 

[ChuckS1]

Boeing's not going away. Any prediction of its demise is wildly overstated. The 737 problems impact only one of its major sectors, that being the commercial aircraft side. There are still three other sectors that Boeing has, those being Defense, Space and Services.