It looks like these layoffs were planned ahead of the current issues. Seems like a bad PR move not to delay them.
Indeed. Even if this is unquestionably the right thing to do from a quality standpoint, the timing of this news looks pretty bad.
The number one quality inspector in a company should be the CEO, is he included in this?
Agreed, this was a result of products being rushed to market, not quabity assuance people messing up.
Debbie should have been there.
That's the 737 MAX problem. There was also a NYT article recently alleging quality issues at the Boing 787 plant in South Carolina. Most of the sources were QA inspectors turned whistleblower.
of course not
Worked fine for Microsoft, customers do just as well as QA!