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Originally Posted by Walter_Middie
The company has been trying to build airplanes using less and less people. Our factories are “Lean”, having less people doing more of the work. Working smarter, not harder, usually results in less people doing the work many more used to do. The result is mandatory overtime, long hours, and working mandatory weekends. This doesn’t sound too bad at first, but when it goes on and on, month after month, it gets tiresome.
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This goes for the engineers at Boeing also. I was working four programs at the same time when I left. Overtime (free) on a daily basis was not only expected, it was explicitly demanded by management. That was one of the main reasons I left - quality of life. I knew many engineers working 12-14 hours a day, day after day after day. I refused to do it. I was only averaging about 9 hours a day and was scolded on more than one occasion for "not putting in long hours".