The MD merger is the reason quality nosedives. Management is responsible for ensuring a robust quality culture. If (if!) a few DEI trainings are enough to destroy that quality culture, then something is very wrong at Boeing anyway, and it was only a question of time.

But of course, the parent comment isn't made in good faith. The 737 MAX crashes happened end 2019-2020, and Boeing didn't release its first-ever diversity report more than a year later: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2021/04/30/boeing...

As for why it didn't nosedive immediatly after the merger, these kind of bankruptcies tend to happen "Gradually, Then Suddenly".

this site, yikes. In summary, we don’t know what happened yet, but you assume it’s the direct and obvious outcome of <your political issue>? And that <many people are saying>?

In that’s the game, then, I suspect the Spotify team was onsite to record a behind the scenes at Boeing podcast, and in the process replaced the locking nuts with Joe Rogan stickers.

I heard a similar story regarding Boeing’s North Charleston factory due to that push, it leads to some Boeing customers request the last inspection done in the Everett factoryinstead before delivery. My bigger worry is 787 as apparently it is moving to SC.

“This aircraft failed because Boeing is too woke” is a pretty amazing take, I’ll grant you that.

You can prop up a bad system for many years by having a lot of workers still around from the old system. It takes time to fully drive a company as good as Boeing into the ground.

Managers think they are the reason anything happens, but fortunately in this case this is a delusion. In places where a great manager tries to turn a business around that is broken that's a bad thing.