Boeing fired midlevel executive following embarrassing emails
From the article:Mr. Cooper didn’t send or receive the messages, the latest batch of which Boeing disclosed to lawmakers and the news media in January, this person said. Those messages show Boeing employees mocking airline officials, aviation regulators and even their own colleagues. In one, an employee said the 737 MAX had been “designed by clowns, who in turn are supervised by monkeys.”Boeing Chief Executive David Calhoun, who has called the messages “totally appalling,” has said he aimed to stamp out such behavior and hold managers accountable. “Awareness in the leadership ranks around whether that’s happening or not is not an excuse if it’s happening,” Mr. Calhoun said in a call with reporters in January, shortly after taking over as CEO. “Disciplinary actions have to be taken.”---To summarize:They fired a guy for not knowing about emails he did not send or receive where engineers were voicing their internal concerns that the 737 MAX design was lacking.Boeing's take away wasn't, "People knew something was wrong and didn't have a way to properly voice that concern."Boeing's take away was, "Middle management should have sufficiently threatened those under their supervision into self-censoring their concerns."Seems like a super-healthy corporate culture that would simultaneously be a fun place to work and produce the best products /s