What’s cause of Boeing’s recent losses?

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Regarding the news that the Boeing Co. lost $425 million in the first quarter, I retired from Boeing as an overhead crane operator 14 years ago. At that time I had but one question I needed to answer, “Could Boeing survive without me?”

A difficult question, indeed, but I felt that if others would step up, the loss of my efforts would be minimized. How wrong I was! Perhaps I should come out of retirement and do my part to help the company’s profitability. Or I could continue on my current path, following the teachings of Red Green and The Possum Lodge, “Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati” (when all else fails, play dead).

Jack W. Mathews Jr.

Stanwood