A few comments:
Ya'll are in an aluminum tube at 35K feet & 500 mph. You better hope that those simple assemblers, button pushers & whatnot do their job right.
You should also hope that that tube is so overdesigned that even if some dolt screws up you don't become part of a smoking hole in the ground.
Anyone with half a brain & spending a few years in manufacturing KNOWS that 5% of the workforce keeps the wheels going around. This is pretty much true top to bottom of the organization. Your job is to either become one of those or at least find out who they are, I figure.
I went to work at Boeing after about 20 years in manufacturing. I learned that it is like Giraffe screwing.....the same as anyone else but on a higher level....a synopsis of my 20 years at Boeing. It ain't like building Fords...... or Porsches for that matter or anything else you've experienced.....with a couple of exceptions here.
There are 27000 IAM folks in commercial airplanes....prolly 80000 total. That's a WAG as they don't tell us no more. That takes some gettin' used to.
I am in the IAM....not by choice, but there it is. Boeing's
PR in this regard is much better than the unions. Many here are not misinformed just underinformed. The bad stuff is always in the fine print.
I expect no job security. Those who think that this is possible are fools....can't get any clearer than that, eh? That bit is typical union BS. Yes, I watched the small percentage march around making noise & spouting slogans....the appeal of emotion where none should creep in. I joined the 87 % voting to strike....
Ya'll think I am over paid? Come do my job. Some you could learn how to do it.....take you a few years tho. Come join the ranks of the overpaid. Do a First Article Inspection on that military dog house.....here's the drawing, there's the CMM....have at it chump.....Oh, put your stamp on it when your done. There's the other bits over there....and then the opposite side....they're all behind schedule so you can work OT on it.....the more the better if you know what's good for you.