'If anything happens to me, it's not suicide,' dead Boeing whistleblower to friend.

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56. So right

How this conversion was handled was documented in the 2010 book: Turbulence: Boeing and the State of American Workers and Managers First Edition
They had to break the bonds that made it such a great company. I think of it as an evil force moving in with a family and destroying it.

I grew up in a Boeing family and a lot of people in Seattle did. Yes, they were a competitive corporation, but it was the intangibles that made it greater than the sum of its parts. Pride in working there, loyalty, and believe me - engineers afraid they would make a mistake that would cost lives. Kids of those engineers thought of themselves as orphans as their dedication was thorough. They were consumed by making the impossible, possible.

Blurb from Amazon: This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic organizational change. As Boeing transformed itself, workers and managers contended with repeated downsizing, shifting corporate culture, new roles for women, outsourcing, mergers, lean production, and rampant technological change. Drawing on a unique blend of quantitative and qualitative research, the authors consider how management strategies affected the well-being of Boeing employees, as well as their attitudes toward their jobs and their company. Boeing employees’ experience holds vital lessons for other employees, the leaders of other firms determined to thrive in today’s era of inescapable and growing global competition, as well as public officials concerned about the well-being of American workers and companies.