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@CliffSecord@nicecrew.digital @JoeBravo77@poa.st The kick in the teeth for me was every single one of them complained about their jobs "I've been here 25 years, I could retire any day." But they never
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Jan 17, 2026
I think another factor in why the industry shot themselves in the foot is when they started offloading IRAs to big finance, such as Fidelity et al, then changed corporate policies on employee stock purchasing. Granted, it sounded like good logical sense to hand that kind of wealth management over to a firm that specializes in it. Yeah, you could still buy company stock, but at Boeing at least, if you were below a Level 4, which was basically 75% of the workforce, including myself, you were extremely limited in how much Boeing stock you could buy...or sell. As such, your IRA was in Schlomo's hands, and in the short time I was there, I saw wild fluctuations in my balance- so wild I wondered what the point was to having it, aside from giving Schlomo pocket change to play with at the grand casino of Wall Street.
To give context, at Boeing, at least in engineering, there were six levels to move up in your trade, with levels seven & eight being executive. The vast majority of the engineering workforce was comprised of Level 3 & below.
Additionally, if you were below a Level 4, you were not eligible for profit sharing. Essentially, we were denied real skin in the game, along with any other financial incentive to be loyal to the company. The profit sharing was mega there. Our integrated product team lead (a Level 5) bought a brand new home in cash....from three years worth of profit sharing, all while we were forced to accept a 2% 'annual merit-based' raise and a $40 gift card we could not claim...as the min balance to do so was $50. Did I mention that when we got that email for the gift card, we only had 10 calendar days to claim it?
When the company went all-in on DEI, you didn't have to guess what group was being overwhelmingly kept from advancing to Level 4 and beyond.
The fat kept getting fatter, boomer embraced his magic niggers & jeet slaves, and, as boomer started retiring there, anti-White toxicity in the workplace skyrocketed, especially where I was at Ridley Park. The completely unqualified nigress put in charge of our team in Aero Technology didn't even remotely try to hide her vile contempt for us Whites in there.
So, one day, in our group of 28, 20 of us (14 Whites and 6 Asians) all got up, walked to HR to hand over our badges along with a written statement signed by all of us, and walked out the door. Two groups in Structures and Power & Propulsion followed suit.
I still had my archive of electronic military documents, so I made up orders making it look like I was getting recalled to active duty to break my lease, packed a PODS thing, and five days later, I was in Texas...and the rest is history.
A horrible day at my workshop is still orders of magnitude better than the best day I ever had at Boeing, hands down.
Fun Fact: The intrepid 'all-American' workforce at Boeing Ridley Park assembling Chinook helicopters and Osprey flight control hardware is nothing more than mostly H1B jeets, Hatian 'refugees' and other 'guest talent'. They work in 12-hour shifts with only one 45-minute break, Monday thru Saturday. Of course as in Philly tradition they're all 'represented' by a union, but strangely, that union started looking the other way when the floor went brown...
I know boomer couldn't care less. To him, the end justified the means.
Fuck Boeing.
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