17 Replies to “DEI The Friendly Skies”

  1. Lives Are Not at Stake.
    Why would a company that builds commercial aircraft care about competence?

    1. Who thought that the ONLY reason some white dude got the job was because he was white? Who thought that the only reason a black man didn’t get the job was because he’s black? Who thought the only reason a woman didn’t get the job was because she had a vagina?

      It’s idiotic thinking like that which has led to Boeing building garbage airliners … and spacecraft

  2. I call BS, like when MS announced the same thing. The dept. may be gone, but DEI is now baked into the entire outfit.

    1. The two are not comparable. When Boeing has its projects fail, people die immediately and catastrophically. Boeing has had 737 MAXes flying into the ground. Boeing has had doors falling off aircraft in flight. Boeing had enormous development problems with the 787 Dreamliner including battery fires and overweight problems. Boeing Starliner was hung up on the ISS for months being judged too dangerous to return the crew it transported initially.

      And you should know all this. Why don’t you?

        1. the different is doofus a lot of software errors are seriously deeply imbedded, the ‘contradiction’ constituting the error requires an endless set of precise circumstances to ‘crop up’.
          boeing brought this on themselves at the highest level. they *set the stage* for all manner of ‘software error’ by putting design and development criterea that pretty much guaranteed it. the *personnel* chosen to fill the spanking new positions were obscenely and dangerously unqualified except for
          -gender
          -race
          -aboriginal status
          -gender choice,
          -duh,
          ANYTHING except training and proven track record, big difference.

          now you have to stuf until this gets embedded in one of your brain cells.

          1. P V
            And soft ware is far more prevalent in society , so it has much greater ‘opportunity’ to fuk up. And thusly much more dangerous.

  3. They have new names for this BS. “Allyship” or Bridge or whatever. The grifters are not going to get off the gravy train this easily.

  5. Diversity staff to be reassigned

    How is this a win? Will they be writing software? Designing airframes? Assembling components? Sounds like a cancer metastasizing throughout the organization.

  6. A technique for analyzing risk perception is the functional safety approach (IEC 61508). There is a large body of research over decades that demonstrates that the public perception of risk is tied very closely to three factors:
    1) Casualties per risk event. One event killing 1000 people is perceived as far more risky than 1000 events killing one person each.
    2) How avoidable the risk is. If a person can avoid a risk by making a different choice the risk is perceived as less of a problem and more tolerable. After all, the people exposed to the risk are choosing it.
    3) How controllable the risk is. If people perceive they have influence over the risk event they are far more likely to perceive it as less risky.

    Airline transport aircraft trip all the functional safety triggers. A transport aircraft crash kills a LOT of people in one fiery kaboom. If you want to cross the country in a day you have no choice whatever – you must get on the aircraft. Most people have no control over the risk factors at all – you sit in your seat and strap in and that is it.

    A car crash rarely kills more than one person: the driver. There are a lot of alternatives to driving your own car that are plausible: a taxi or different choices of car for example. And the owner operator has great influence over the risk: maintenance, routes, time of day, how rested you are, distance from traffic, and so forth.

    Which is why most people have no qualms whatever about the much higher risk they face driving their own car, and resent government regulation of their driving, while being quite frightened of far safer air travel and demanding intrusive and effective regulation of the air travel industry.

    I can think of another recent event a few years ago where it was perceived as an unavoidable, uncontrollable, mass casualty event where the public absolutely demanded the government do something, anything, to deal with it. Even though it wasn’t actually all that risky.

  8. It isn’t just Boeing wising up, I work for an airline, an email went out just yesterday, no more gender neutral bathrooms in the office.

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