A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.

A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.

  • Billiam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    172·
    13 days ago

    Hmm, sounds like Boeing needs to fire more engineers.

    And increase C-level compensation, of course.

      • mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        394·
        13 days ago

        Just gonna throw this idea out there:

        What if they hired a bunch of engineers who graduated from sketchy, unaccredited colleges in foreign countries and paid them half as much much?

        • azuth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          18·
          13 days ago

          Is this like when Americans blamed Pakistani coders for B737/MCAS debacle only to be proven they implemented Boeing’s (fatally flawed) specifications to the letter?

    • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      13 days ago

      I don’t know this smells of some pencil Pusher looking at an engineer going “can you bring the cost of that rubber o-ring down 13 cents”… “I know you were looking for a specific type of seal but I got this huge assortment pack right here from my local temu…”

    • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
      16·
      13 days ago

      Well, it is public knowledge that layoffs and furloughs are happening, so sadly, you’re not wrong.

      And they somehow enticed Kelly Ortberg out of retirement to take over as CEO. There’s the hella juicy c-suite compensation package you talked about. He was already riding golden after he maneuvered that Rockwell Collins sale/merger/whatever.

    • TechnologyChef@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      13 days ago

      Exactly why I wonder where our business school ethics go when it seems to me that value is only placed on what can be tied to everyone’s income and profit being the ‘sole’ provider for it, and any Engineer’s ethics being a nice thing for their own time. What would happen if we switch it up to Engineers being in charge who actually learn to make the product and the business side being the client of it rather than the other way around? Could the world be a better place? This doesn’t mean every engineer or either group as a monolith is good or bad. Just that maybe in economics we can see who may value externalities even in capitalism as Adam Smith seemed to promote over just profit.