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Boeing CEO admits company has retaliated against whistleblowers during Senate hearing
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2024
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why are people in this thread acting as if he's just admitted to ordering hits on whistleblowers
Might have something to do with the whistle blowers dying mysteriously
To be fair only the first was a surprise mysterious suicide.
The second was sick for years and died because of that.
Tell me again why we need to be fair to executives that murdered 340+ people to save money on training and certifications for their new plane?
Because it's the right thing to do.
Well if we were treating them fairly they'd be in prison.
Absolutely! And we wouldn't have to speculate or exaggerate or misrepresent to do so.
Now we're on the same page!
Even the 1st wasn't that mysterious if you read more than headlines. John very likely did kill himself. He had already lost his civil suit against Boeing for damages. Was trying to appeal that case. It very likely wasn't going anywhere. Because if he had a case Boeing could have quietly settled before the initial trial.
The case also had nothing to do with current Boeing practices as John retired in 2017. John was suing for defamation.
Is thia a PR release from Boeing lol
This is not correct, he was in normal health until after he became a whistleblower and then he got MRSA and died in 2 weeks.
That shit happens, that's almost exactly how one of my grandparents died but minus the whistleblower part.
Yeah it's pretty low odds though.
We will never know if Boeing did it... But we do know how these companies are, so I am just assuming this they did until proven otherwise.
You can always count the corpo trash to do crime... 24/7
1% CEO of one of the largest companies in the military industrial complex.
Also: https://youtu.be/OyBNmecVtdU?t=521
We obviously haven't read the article, yet feel entitled to comment on it all the same! /s bc not having read it myself, I just presume that's the case 🤣.
More importantly, why are you surprised at that?
Social media is more about feelings than facts, especially when it comes to precision in the details - the barrier to speak is very low, on purpose, to allow us to vent our frustrations at the world being unfair and corrupt and twisted.
In this case it is fairly understandable - he is a very bad man who did very bad things. He has now admitted to a subset of the badness, and people wish that he had gone further to admit it all, so people talk as if that were the case.
Again, that's just my guess, but we cannot control the world, only ourselves.