[A930Rocket]

Having worked in construction building homes, when the great recession hit, I worked at Boeing in SC for a year. It was miserable working butt cheek to butt cheek on the inside of the barrel at station 10(?) in the 20 building (mid-body). There were some honest hard-working folks, but there were a lot of non-technical idiots building the 787. I said I would never fly be 787 and haven’t.

FOD was big, but when you’re working in some areas trying to install very small fasteners and collars, sometimes it would fall down into the bottom of the barrel and not to be found. Hopefully somebody found it.

Edit: When we moved the barrel from one station to the next it was called a line move. If the work done in station 10 was not complete, it was rolled to station 20 where it was done before, during and after station 20s job. This meant working off scaffolds instead of a platform, having to work around, over, under station 20s work. It may move down line with 100 jobs to be done, but upper management was happy it move down line early. 🙄

I had a couple friends that worked on the flight line and they were doing jobs from mid body and final assembly to get the plane 100%. They had to go back to buildings 19, 20 and final assembly to get parts to finish it.