Boeing

Amazing continuing education benefits! Can't say enough good things about this.

Working with new materials, technologies, and airplanes.

Good pay (getting worse). Good benefits (getting worse). Good vacation policy. Decent sick leave policy. Good retirement policy (used to be excellent - pension). Good work/life balance.

Weak leadership.

Working with software that is almost as old as I am.

I had 11 managers in 3 years, all giving positive reviews, followed by a layoff. I was told it's not personal, just business.

There is so much indecision within the junior leadership ranks that decisions cannot be made or agreed upon until it is too late. This inability to come to a decision hurts production, morale, and increases rework, costing the company more money.

Management is only looking out for themselves. The inability to share resources, talent, or expertise leads to employees wanting to leave.

There is a revolving door of managers at Boeing. Many managers never stay in one place for long; a few months to a year, and they're gone to the next thing. This behavior makes it impossible to build a relationship with your manager, get a good raise, level up, improve retention, etc. I think it's a new policy to keep employees from leveling up or getting a decent raise.

There are some really bad managers at Boeing which, for some reason, Boeing will not get rid of. They just give them a new assignment or group. This is followed by that group members leaving or complaints, etc. Then the cycle starts over again: new group, complaints, new group.

Sr. Leadership talks about the need to retain/recruit talent (Search for "Elizabeth Lund & Women mentoring Women") but will layoff hundreds of engineers (Search for Boeing Layoffs 2017 or 2016 or 2015).

Pick one to complain about.

You need to identify bad management and do away with them. It is only hurting the company to continue to employ them. They're easy to identify too. In Washington, talk to your union contacts about whom has the most complaints filed against them.

There are certainly good managers at Boeing. Recognize and reward them, or they will leave for brighter pastures.

The aerospace/manufacturing/engineering industry will soon have a major shakeup (Silver Tsunami). If you don't believe me, look at the average age of your workforce. The current actions of laying off workers are counterproductive to knowledge transfer from the older workers to the newer ones. What is more important? A dollar saved today? Or the ensured successful products and innovations of tomorrow?