Re: Financial topics
Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2019 8:40 am
Generational theory, international history and current events
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Gen X has no idea how to hire, not a clue. I believe Gen X is the most clueless generation of morons who have ever walked the face of the earth.Higgenbotham wrote:https://finance.yahoo.com/news/boeings- ... 57048.htmlBoeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers
Peter Robison, Bloomberg•June 28, 2019
(Bloomberg) -- It remains the mystery at the heart of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max crisis: how a company renowned for meticulous design made seemingly basic software mistakes leading to a pair of deadly crashes. Longtime Boeing engineers say the effort was complicated by a push to outsource work to lower-paid contractors.
The Max software -- plagued by issues that could keep the planes grounded months longer after U.S. regulators this week revealed a new flaw -- was developed at a time Boeing was laying off experienced engineers and pressing suppliers to cut costs.
Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker and its subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making as little as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries lacking a deep background in aerospace -- notably India.
New dark age.
I've seen many examples of the above in the computer industry. InHiggenbotham wrote: > Gen X has no idea how to hire, not a clue. I believe Gen X is the
> most clueless generation of morons who have ever walked the face
> of the earth.
I really have to laugh, because I've seen exactly this happen at> "The Max software -- plagued by issues that could keep
> the planes grounded months longer after U.S. regulators this week
> revealed a new flaw -- was developed at a time Boeing was laying
> off experienced engineers and pressing suppliers to cut costs.
> Increasingly, the iconic American planemaker and its
> subcontractors have relied on temporary workers making as little
> as $9 an hour to develop and test software, often from countries
> lacking a deep background in aerospace -- notably
> India.
This is exactly what happened at Ability Networks, and it's also what> "HCL Technologies Ltd. occupied several rows of desks,
> said Mark Rabin, a former Boeing software engineer who worked in a
> flight-test group that supported the Max.
> The coders from HCL were typically designing to specifications set
> by Boeing. Still, “it was controversial because it was far less
> efficient than Boeing engineers just writing the code,” Rabin
> said. Frequently, he recalled, “it took many rounds going back and
> forth because the code was not done correctly.”"
This is what passes for "management" in the world of Gen X. I experienced similar in infrastructure engineering. They hired people without engineering degrees to work as contractors in an engineering group. Probably the original idea was that the contractors would not do engineering work, but Gen X management was unable to understand the distinction between engineering work and routine work because the Gen X managers did not have engineering degrees or any engineering experience. It resulted in disaster after disaster. The worst disaster I saw was the contractors weren't checking sites for leaking underground storage tanks that had been remediated (with a residual plume) and some drinking water wells got drilled on contaminated sites.John wrote:This is exactly what happened at Ability Networks, and it's also what> "HCL Technologies Ltd. occupied several rows of desks,
> said Mark Rabin, a former Boeing software engineer who worked in a
> flight-test group that supported the Max.
> The coders from HCL were typically designing to specifications set
> by Boeing. Still, “it was controversial because it was far less
> efficient than Boeing engineers just writing the code,” Rabin
> said. Frequently, he recalled, “it took many rounds going back and
> forth because the code was not done correctly.”"
happened at CGI Corp. It would be hilarious if it weren't so
disastrous.