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Does anybody know what that Boeing tech pubs group does? Do they
develop or test the content, or do they just manage the publishing
workflow (I suppose SGML, Interleaf, etc, which still is not trivial).
I suspect that the people who are actually developing the content are
not going to be outsourced.
I agree, Boeing probably had no choice, or at least thought it had no
choice, according to current business doctrines. I do understand the
business argument Andrew laid out so well.
On the other hand, it's disengenuous to hold Boeing up as a model of
free-market entrepreneurial capitalism, especially in its labor
relations. Boeing socialistically depends on your tax dollars and on US
industrial policy. Elections are coming up so you can express your
feelings about the Boeing move then.
Without your tax dollars, or even with a little less of your tax
dollars, Boeing would have to compete against the subsidized Airbus in
the airliner market. Then the battle would be fought by the Senate and
the State Department as it should be, hopefully without using American
tech writers and other workers as cannon fodder.
Andrew wrote:
> If you wanted millions, then you should have focused
> your career on being a CEO some day.
This makes about as much sense as advising inner-city kids to become
NBA stars.
This is a pretty light recession as far as recessions go. Relatively
few people are affected in a major, life-changing way. So right now
it's an easy cheap shot to point at those people and and say Tsk, Tsk,
you should have worked harder, you should have gone to a different
school, you should relocate, you should change careers, etc.
But as in past recessions, as unemployment spreads and moves upward, it
will become obvious that the problem is policy, not poor choices or
stupidity on the part of individuals. Just like 1992.
Mike O.
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