Boeing's Dumpster Fire
Was dragged to a shopping center in Renton, Washington. Wandered around the parking lot where I found a garbage bin full of chairs, baby seats and tables in good condition. Hypothesizing that a corporate entity lost their lease and didn’t want to bother to sell the stuff they needed to clear from the space and that maybe there just isn’t a market for lowbrow, janky, ugly used restaurant furniture anyway.
In the background of this photo of the furniture is an ominous green object.
That would be a 737 MAX fuselage, produced by Spirit AeroSystems, a former subdivision of Boeing.
Do not, I repeat DO NOT book a flight on a Boeing 737 MAX 8 or MAX 9!
Bad PR tends to drive down a public corporation’s stock price and Boeing has plummeted over 25% lately. That still makes the company wildly overvalued (like most publicly traded stocks) by any metric other than the “history’s largest welfare queen has no-bid contracts with the US Military” metric. And I’m not insulting the lady Ronald Reagan talked about in the 80s - that person was an audacious movie-worthy scam artist with no resemblance to 99% of government assistance recipients.
—Alex
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Thrilling to see the fuselage rolling by. My dad was a Boeing engineer. My granddad was a Boeing machinist. The grandmother of the woman who lives across the street drove up to Mukilteo every day to work in the Boeing plant. She bought the house across the street; she passed it on her way to work each day and admired its construction. Her granddaughter is a member of the Black Legacy Homeowners Network. I married a Microsoft software engineer.