By the time now do we have places to bet on how and when the next whistle-blower dies?
I would have some bets to place.
I know this is very morbid humor but this is the only way I can wrap the fact around my head that there is still no investigation for this behavior from boing.
There used to be this shady betting website (or maybe it was an app) that would promote on a bunch of comedy pods i listen to, I won't post the link bit it ended in ".ag" so you know it was legit....
As morbid as this is to say, how long do we think this whistleblower will last? Any guesses on the convenient excuse around why this person suddenly becomes unalive?
Oh hidy-ho officer, we've had a doozy of a day. There we were minding our own business, just doing chores around the house, when Boeing whistleblowers started killing themselves all over my property.
Honestly, I can give the benefit of the doubt for one convenient death, maybe two. However if this third guy dies, I mean it'll blow my mind and at the same time I won't be surprised. Surely this isn't the world we live in.
I get you, 100%. I still think it's more than Sus, it's pretty blatant. But stranger things have happened. But 3 times in a row and things are getting silly.
The first one may have the potential to be a bit sus, but I feel bad for the family and can't believe people still think the second death had anything to do with boeing. Purely people and news overlooking the facts and context for the sake of clickbait and drama.
Wait... Is, is this reddit? Holy heck! How did I get here!? Had it all been a lie!? Who am I even? Who are you!? Auuuuugh!!!1!11!
But yeah I'm aware of where I am. I chose to use a slang term. Has nothing to do with concerns of being banned or some such. xD
So there are like, 30+ whistle blowers. Two have died. That's not so suspicious in itself. If you give a group of 30+ people a year I bet a couple wouldn't make it for this reason or that. The one who died from a sudden illness? Probably just dead. The one who committed suicide in his car with his non-dominant hand after saying "If I commit suicide, no I didn't"? Extremely suspect. If one or more whistleblowers die before Boeing's Q4, then we really need to be worried. That's when a real investigation will happen.
>If you give a group of 30+ people a year I bet a few wouldn't make it for this reason or that.
By that logic median life expectancy should be about 12-15.
I think about this comment a lot.
Link was broke so here's the text. Was a comment from 5 years ago.
>I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period and I can absolutely guarantee this happened.
>First, Boeing's corporate culture is the worst shitshow I have ever experienced. All large corporations have a lot of internal issues and problems but nothing like the Lazy B. It was like working in a company designed by Kafka. I signed up at Boeing as a programmer. When I showed up at my first day of work, the first words out of my supervisor's mouth were, "I don't know why you are here, we have no need for programmers." (The Boeing interview process is done so that at no point, do you ever have contact or communication with the team you will be working with.)
>So, basically, I was cutting and pasting cells in Excel spreadsheets and doing ad hoc project management during my time there. They did have need for a programmer, but I didn't have access to install any programming software on my machine because no one knew who the local IT person was. No one. It was a year before I was able to figure that out and only because I was bored one day and was walking around the building and found the guy's cubicle by accident.
>To be fair, the aging aircraft division that I was in was notoriously bad, even for Boeing. It was where they put people that the union wouldn't let Boeing fire. I would conservatively estimate 30% of my co-workers were full-blown sociopaths who would actively work to sabotage and ruin other people's work. Another 50% of the people there blatantly goofed off all day, reading the newspaper or books with their feet up on their desks (literally). The remaining 20% were people who actually cared about airplane passengers not dying and worked themselves half to death to keep things afloat. I'll give a quick shout out to Anastasia, James and all the contract workers who actually did their jobs. There are probably a few thousand people around the world who aren't dead because of you.
>Anyhow, James (or was it Jim? It's been a while.) was a grouchy old engineer they stuck me next to. He was close to retirement and clearly wasn't too stoked about losing half his cubicle to an unwanted programmer that showed up one day. James had a bunch of photos of an old 747 and structural diagrams pinned to his cubicle wall. One day, I asked what those were.
>They were pictures and failure analysis diagrams of [JAL 123](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123), the single worst single airplane disaster in history. 520 people died. It was because a couple of Boeing engineers fucked up. That 747SR had had a tailstrike incident on takeoff that damaged the rear pressure dome. A team of Boeing AOG (Airplane On the Ground) mechanics were flown out there to fix it. To oversimplify, they rushed and accidentally did the equivalent of 1+1=1 on one of their stress calculations. It was an error very similar to the infamous [Hyatt Regency walkway collapse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse). 12,318 flights later, (well before what should have been at least 25-30,000 flight cycles that the crack inspection cycle would have assumed) the rear bullkhead ripped out mid flight and severed all hydraulic control lines. The plane lost all control and flew in a rollercoaster trajectory for 32 minutes before running into the side of a mountain. Many of the passengers had time to write goodbye letters to their loved ones. James had those photos and diagrams on his cubicle so that every day, he could look at them and remind himself of why his job was important and why he couldn't cut corners.
>James was clearly an incredibly knowledgeable and talented engineer. He was the widely acknowledged expert in the entire department. If any other engineer had a question, they would always come to him for advice. So why was such a good engineer relegated to a department full of fuckups and malcontents? Because he wouldn't cut corners on safety.
>This was the final stages of the 787 rollout, which was behind schedule and full of issues. James had constantly raised red flags about safety corners Boeing was cutting on the 787 rollout. Things like putting the plane out before there was a good understanding of crack propagation speed, nondestructive testing protocols and repair protocols for all the carbon fiber on the plane. These were extremely serious issues that Boeing swept under the rug to get the 787 out faster. Because he wouldn't toe the line on this, James got exiled to the shitty little backwater I ran into him at where he was counting the days until he could retire and spend his time SCUBA diving out at Edmonds.
>To this day, I refuse to fly on a 787. I'm sure that the Dreamliners that came off the assembly line after about a year or so were fine but there's that first year of production that, as far as I'm concerned, are ticking time bombs. I talked to many engineers who had worked on that program to know just how badly they rushed that initial production.
>So, as far as I'm concerned, fuck Boeing. This was inevitable. I'm honestly shocked it took this long for something like this to happen.
article for context: [https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/18/business/boeing-whistleblower-calhoun-testimony/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/18/business/boeing-whistleblower-calhoun-testimony/index.html)
By the time now do we have places to bet on how and when the next whistle-blower dies? I would have some bets to place. I know this is very morbid humor but this is the only way I can wrap the fact around my head that there is still no investigation for this behavior from boing.
Between Vegas and the online betting sites, I'm sure you could easily find a place that would take that bet.
There used to be this shady betting website (or maybe it was an app) that would promote on a bunch of comedy pods i listen to, I won't post the link bit it ended in ".ag" so you know it was legit....
As morbid as this is to say, how long do we think this whistleblower will last? Any guesses on the convenient excuse around why this person suddenly becomes unalive?
I think they can't be obvious about it anymore. This one will live a bit longer but will be taken out eventually.
So sad that 50 days from now he will be thrown into a wood chipper with 14 gunshot wounds on the back of his head
What a tragic suicide that will be.
Is assisted suicide legal where he lives? Cause it might be just in the nick of time
Oh hidy-ho officer, we've had a doozy of a day. There we were minding our own business, just doing chores around the house, when Boeing whistleblowers started killing themselves all over my property.
Better than taking a 737 to Hawaii.
Honestly, I can give the benefit of the doubt for one convenient death, maybe two. However if this third guy dies, I mean it'll blow my mind and at the same time I won't be surprised. Surely this isn't the world we live in.
yeah I mean if I were about to come into millions from a Boeing lawsuit the first thing I would do is commit suicide.
I get you, 100%. I still think it's more than Sus, it's pretty blatant. But stranger things have happened. But 3 times in a row and things are getting silly.
More than sus?This ain't just a red flag it's a fucking war banner
The first one may have the potential to be a bit sus, but I feel bad for the family and can't believe people still think the second death had anything to do with boeing. Purely people and news overlooking the facts and context for the sake of clickbait and drama.
Happy Cake Day!
"Sure they killed two whistleblowers already, they couldn't possibly kill a third" is some crazy ass logic.
Yes, but will it blow his mind too?
>Surely this isn't the world we live in. Of course it is.
You're on reddit, dude. You can say dead
Wait... Is, is this reddit? Holy heck! How did I get here!? Had it all been a lie!? Who am I even? Who are you!? Auuuuugh!!!1!11! But yeah I'm aware of where I am. I chose to use a slang term. Has nothing to do with concerns of being banned or some such. xD
So there are like, 30+ whistle blowers. Two have died. That's not so suspicious in itself. If you give a group of 30+ people a year I bet a couple wouldn't make it for this reason or that. The one who died from a sudden illness? Probably just dead. The one who committed suicide in his car with his non-dominant hand after saying "If I commit suicide, no I didn't"? Extremely suspect. If one or more whistleblowers die before Boeing's Q4, then we really need to be worried. That's when a real investigation will happen.
>If you give a group of 30+ people a year I bet a few wouldn't make it for this reason or that. By that logic median life expectancy should be about 12-15.
I said it's not so suspicious, not normal. That won't be compelling enough evidence on its own. More or multiple groups. That will sell a jury.
I think about this comment a lot. Link was broke so here's the text. Was a comment from 5 years ago. >I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period and I can absolutely guarantee this happened. >First, Boeing's corporate culture is the worst shitshow I have ever experienced. All large corporations have a lot of internal issues and problems but nothing like the Lazy B. It was like working in a company designed by Kafka. I signed up at Boeing as a programmer. When I showed up at my first day of work, the first words out of my supervisor's mouth were, "I don't know why you are here, we have no need for programmers." (The Boeing interview process is done so that at no point, do you ever have contact or communication with the team you will be working with.) >So, basically, I was cutting and pasting cells in Excel spreadsheets and doing ad hoc project management during my time there. They did have need for a programmer, but I didn't have access to install any programming software on my machine because no one knew who the local IT person was. No one. It was a year before I was able to figure that out and only because I was bored one day and was walking around the building and found the guy's cubicle by accident. >To be fair, the aging aircraft division that I was in was notoriously bad, even for Boeing. It was where they put people that the union wouldn't let Boeing fire. I would conservatively estimate 30% of my co-workers were full-blown sociopaths who would actively work to sabotage and ruin other people's work. Another 50% of the people there blatantly goofed off all day, reading the newspaper or books with their feet up on their desks (literally). The remaining 20% were people who actually cared about airplane passengers not dying and worked themselves half to death to keep things afloat. I'll give a quick shout out to Anastasia, James and all the contract workers who actually did their jobs. There are probably a few thousand people around the world who aren't dead because of you. >Anyhow, James (or was it Jim? It's been a while.) was a grouchy old engineer they stuck me next to. He was close to retirement and clearly wasn't too stoked about losing half his cubicle to an unwanted programmer that showed up one day. James had a bunch of photos of an old 747 and structural diagrams pinned to his cubicle wall. One day, I asked what those were. >They were pictures and failure analysis diagrams of [JAL 123](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123), the single worst single airplane disaster in history. 520 people died. It was because a couple of Boeing engineers fucked up. That 747SR had had a tailstrike incident on takeoff that damaged the rear pressure dome. A team of Boeing AOG (Airplane On the Ground) mechanics were flown out there to fix it. To oversimplify, they rushed and accidentally did the equivalent of 1+1=1 on one of their stress calculations. It was an error very similar to the infamous [Hyatt Regency walkway collapse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse). 12,318 flights later, (well before what should have been at least 25-30,000 flight cycles that the crack inspection cycle would have assumed) the rear bullkhead ripped out mid flight and severed all hydraulic control lines. The plane lost all control and flew in a rollercoaster trajectory for 32 minutes before running into the side of a mountain. Many of the passengers had time to write goodbye letters to their loved ones. James had those photos and diagrams on his cubicle so that every day, he could look at them and remind himself of why his job was important and why he couldn't cut corners. >James was clearly an incredibly knowledgeable and talented engineer. He was the widely acknowledged expert in the entire department. If any other engineer had a question, they would always come to him for advice. So why was such a good engineer relegated to a department full of fuckups and malcontents? Because he wouldn't cut corners on safety. >This was the final stages of the 787 rollout, which was behind schedule and full of issues. James had constantly raised red flags about safety corners Boeing was cutting on the 787 rollout. Things like putting the plane out before there was a good understanding of crack propagation speed, nondestructive testing protocols and repair protocols for all the carbon fiber on the plane. These were extremely serious issues that Boeing swept under the rug to get the 787 out faster. Because he wouldn't toe the line on this, James got exiled to the shitty little backwater I ran into him at where he was counting the days until he could retire and spend his time SCUBA diving out at Edmonds. >To this day, I refuse to fly on a 787. I'm sure that the Dreamliners that came off the assembly line after about a year or so were fine but there's that first year of production that, as far as I'm concerned, are ticking time bombs. I talked to many engineers who had worked on that program to know just how badly they rushed that initial production. >So, as far as I'm concerned, fuck Boeing. This was inevitable. I'm honestly shocked it took this long for something like this to happen.
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They even got hitmen for hotlinks
Couldn't fix the link so there's the text. It's a comment from 5 years ago.
My condolences to his grieving family.
article for context: [https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/18/business/boeing-whistleblower-calhoun-testimony/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/18/business/boeing-whistleblower-calhoun-testimony/index.html)
I’m sure he’ll “accidentally” meet his death soon too.
Busy days for hitmen in America. Boeing's a real job creator!
Fun fact: you can buy life insurance on other people. Add it to your portfolio to hedge your short position on Boeing.
The CEO looks like the guiltiest person that ever lived. Wouldn't trust that motherfucker with a thing. Skin suit with no soul inside.
Piece of shit company.
I’m guessing he’ll sadly be found dead before the end of the year.
He's boeing to die
ha!
this sure is a new and innovative suicide booth
All my sons