Ford Firing?

[Cmar]

Cept the one who was on a private sub trying to tour the titanic...


*cough*

Must be about the first time ever a CEO was directly affected by quality control.

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[canyonslicker]

Must be about the first time ever a CEO was directly affected by quality control.

Try Howard Hughes… He was the test pilot on all of his aircraft until he went hermit…

 

[JohnnyO]

Cept the one who was on a private sub trying to tour the titanic...


*cough*

At least my man went down with the ship. You gotta figure if he thought it was unsafe he wouldn't have been on it, maybe just not very smart though.
I'm not going two miles down in the ocean even in something that has US Navy painted on the side.

 

[JohnnyO]

Unfortunately that story plays out over and over. CEOs completely fail, get fired, get a huge golden parachute and then go on to ruin another company - the cycle repeats over and over.

My company has me doing something where the legality is kinda dubious in my state (but it's okay most everywhere else, just a paperwork issue). I brought it up and we had a Zoom meeting with corporate telling us it's okay but but if sh*t goes down and I lose my license, my settlement offer will be current salary for life (I'm 62).

 

[Trigganometry]

Expected to affect employees at the Detroit automaker's gas, electric-vehicle, and software divisions, but the number of cuts could not be learned.

Software eh! Well the Sync guys got to go first. Let’s not let them make it any more painful for us. How about going open source and let the experts code this thing

 

[JohnnyO]

Try Howard Hughes… He was the test pilot on all of his aircraft until he went hermit…

And head injuries from his crashes may have led to him being crazy.

 

[canyonslicker]

And head injuries from his crashes may have led to him being crazy.

Agreed but as a former employee there I can tell you that he instituted some of the most strict QA policies for the day. He didn’t F’ around. His butt was literally on the line unlike most today.

 

[Cmar]

Try Howard Hughes… He was the test pilot on all of his aircraft until he went hermit…

At least his plane flew and landed safely.

 

[Cmar]

My company has me doing something where the legality is kinda dubious in my state (but it's okay most everywhere else, just a paperwork issue). I brought it up and we had a Zoom meeting with corporate telling us it's okay but but if sh*t goes down and I lose my license, my settlement offer will be current salary for life (I'm 62).

I hope that meeting was recorded.

 

[canyonslicker]

At least his plane flew and landed safely.

Not all of them ? he had a few crashes but survived..

 

[canyonslicker]

Not all of them ? he had a few crashes but survived..

Hughes Aircraft was also known as Huge Aircrash !!

 

[rang19ca]

When FORD inc does fire Farley, math will be the cause. Numbers don't lie.

 

[Cmar]

Not all of them ? he had a few crashes but survived..

Fair enough, I was referring to the Spruce Goose.
But I feel a bit sad we shouldn't be really making light of what was a pretty tragic occurrence. I bet when they went down there to look at the Titanic lost souls, even though they knew the risks, not for a moment did they ever think they might be joining them.

 

[Cmar]

At least my man went down with the ship. You gotta figure if he thought it was unsafe he wouldn't have been on it, maybe just not very smart though.
I'm not going two miles down in the ocean even in something that has US Navy painted on the side.

Yes days back when people were still searching, a local news service here interviewed the Sydney engineer who built and co-designed the craft that James Cameron uses. You could tell he was desperately trying to avoid saying that he had already guessed what had happened and why.

 

[canyonslicker]

Fair enough, I was referring to the Spruce Goose.
But I feel a bit sad we shouldn't be really making light of what was a pretty tragic occurrence. I bet when they went down there to look at the Titanic lost souls, even though they knew the risks, not for a moment did they ever think they might be joining them.

Understood but the CEO did cut corners on validation testing from what I’ve been reading. It’s a very unfortunate situation. There were no real sea trials, yeah some pressure testing. No real world testing as I can ascertain. I find it rather unbelievable the beta test was with passengers. Sometimes ego gets in the way of decision makers, it’s a shame…

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