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波音飞机事故频发背后的混乱

(2024-03-25 15:13:41) 下一个

 

(全文翻译)一位美国人的轶事:

“抱歉各位,但我需要发泄一下……我今天辞去了在波音公司的空气动力学家的工作。

就差一周就满十年了。

通往今天的道路始于2021年夏天,当时一个名叫贾马尔(Jamal- 这是他的真名,各位)的新员工被分配到我的空气动力学工程部门。在贾马尔之前,我们空气动力学部门的每个人都拥有工程和相关科学学位(我是物理学),我们中的一些人拥有硕士学位,我们的领导拥有博士学位。贾马尔拥有“航空科学工程”学位,我们最终了解到这个学位实际上是工程技术项目中极度、极度、极度水货版本。

我的部门负责人被他的领导告知,贾马尔“将成为一名空气动力学家”,尽管他只接受了该学科的入门级教育(在塔斯基吉大学,基础空气动力学是在大三年级教授的)。完全不是平权行动(AA)的聘用,对吧?

在接下来的一年里,从第一天起我们就让贾马尔远离他完全不理解的关键工作。我们只让他在Excel中进行基本数据输入。他在各方面对我们来说都毫无用处。

去年5月,就在我们试图让贾马尔被调到另一个部门后不久,我们部门的领导在公司服务了29年后被解雇。他们告诉我们他“提前开始退休了”。虽然这在事实上是准确的,但显而易见的是,由于我们对贾马尔的集体关注,我们的老板被描绘成种族主义者,并被迫离开。因为多样性。

不到一周后,我们收到了我们的新老板,“沙妮卡小姐”,她希望我们这样称呼她。她甚至不是通过教育或行业成为工程师的。她是一个多余的数据存档专家。你们简直不会相信。

对于那些关注这个的人来说,给你们一个关于她种族的线索,白人、亚洲人和西班牙裔女性不会叫“沙妮卡”,我们也不会随便让人用尊称加上我们的名字。

几天内,“沙妮卡小姐”,只顾自己的同类,让‘无用的贾马尔’成为我的项目的团队负责人,降低了我的职位。我被告知“他赢得了这个机会”。四天后,大约724GB经过MatLab处理的风洞和计算流体动力学(CFD)数据变得无法使用。我们三个人花了一段时间才发现代码脚本不知怎的搞砸了。最糟糕的是,沙妮卡把我们三个人推到了数据腐败的前线,完整的书面警告,并给了我们一个修复它的时间表。幸运的是,我们有脚本的副本,并能够重新处理数据,两周前完全完成了子项目。

但贾马尔怎么样了?哦,就在我们解决混乱的一周后,他直接从波音公司的企业领导那里获得了表扬,“在领导力方面的无与伦比的卓越表现,通过发现数据中的问题并修复它,为公司节省了无数的时间和数百万美元!”

在这里,正如他们所说,事情变得有点有趣……
我的一个同事发现了为什么/怎样/何时……以及是谁搞砸了一切。不是贾马尔。而是沙妮卡在自己舒适的家里(根据IT部门)这么做的。

是的,没错,各位——价值数十亿美元的公司知识产权、数千兆字节的数据,被故意破坏,以明显的努力来提拔一个没有受过教育、完全无能的象征性员工,并让我们成为坏人。

上周四,在证实这一点后,我们向安全部门、法律部门和高级领导提交了一份完整的报告,附有宣誓声明和支持证据。我们也知道可能会发生什么,并相应地做好了准备。

今天午餐后不久,我们(我们三个人)被高级管理层召唤。我们被指控多次“通过言语表达和展示贬低非洲裔美国人的材料,对贾马尔和我们的‘老板’表现出公然不尊重”,“试图破坏公司财产”,当然还有“提出虚假投诉”。我们三个人被要求在下班前提交辞职信。我们立即拿出同事们的文件夹,递上了我们周末准备的辞职信。我们被护送回我们的桌子收拾我们的东西,交回了我们的工牌,然后走了出去。

在平权行动实际上被击败不到两周后,波音公司,这家价值数十亿美元的企业,加倍努力。他们真的选择了两个没有受过教育的象征性黑人,而不是麻省理工学院、加州理工学院和斯坦福大学的毕业生。我们那位因为我们所做的事情而“提前退休”的前老板,是莫斯科大学的杰出毕业生,在加入波音之前,是俄罗斯中央空气动力学研究所(TsAGI)的著名和有影响力的工程师。
我知道我们将在适当的时候得到平反,但波音公司无法支付我们足够的钱让我们回去。让他们吃蛋糕吧。

我不太确定我的下一步将是什么,但我只能说Wow。就是Wow。”

 

This, sadly, is another careening moment in our Republic.
Anecdote of an American:
 
"Sorry folks, but I need to vent...I quit my job as an Aerodynamicist at Boeing today.
 
Just a week short of ten years.
 
The path to today started back in summer 2021, when a new employee named Jamal (his real name, folks) was assigned to my aerodynamics engineering section. Before Jamal, everybody in aero possessed engineering & related science degrees (physics in my case), some of us had an MS, and our lead held a Ph.D.. Jamal held a degree in "Aerospace Science Engineering", which we ultimately learned was an extremely, extremely, extremely watered down version of an Engineering Technology program.
 
My department head was told by his leadership that Jamal was "going to be an aerodynamicist", despite having only indoctrination-level exposure to the discipline (basic aero, at Tuskeegee U, is given during the junior year). Totally not an affirmative action hire, right?
 
In the year the followed, we steadily kept Jamal from the critical work which he proved from day one complete lack of understanding. We had him doing only basic data entry in Excel. He was literally useless to us in every way.
 
Back in May, shortly after trying to get Jamal reassigned to a different section, our section lead was terminated by the company after serving 29 years. They told us that he "started his retirement early". While this is factually accurate, it was glaringly evident that for stating our collective concern for Jamal, our boss was painted as a racist, and forced out. Because diversity.
 
Not even a week later, we received our new boss, "Miss Shanika", as she wanted us to address her as. She wasn't even an engineer by education or trade. She was a redundant data archival specialist. You can't make this up.
 
For those tuned in, to give you a clue to her ethnicity, White, Asian and Hispanic women aren't named "Shanika", nor do we casually tell people to precede our first names with a salutation.
 
Within days, "Miss Shanika", looking out solely for her own kind, made 'Jamal the Useless' team lead of my project, demoting me. I was told that "he earned the opportunity". Four days later, approximately 724GB of MatLab-processed wind tunnel & CFD data was rendered unuseable. It took three of us to find out that the code script somehow got fucked up. The worst part was that Shanika threw the three of us under the bus for the data corruption, complete with written repremands, and given a timeline to fix it. Fortunately, we had a copy of the script and was able to reprocess the data, fully completing the sub-project two weeks ago.
 
But happened to Jamal? Well, just a week after we unfucked the mess, he was given commendation directly from Boeing corporate leadership for "Unparralleled Excellence in Leadership, for going above & beyond by finding a problem in data and fixing it, saving the company untold time and millions in the process!"
 
Here, as they say, is where it gets kinda interesting...
 
One of my colleagues found out why/how/when...and who, fucked it all up. It wasn't Jamal. Rather, it was Shanika who did it, from the comfort of her own home (according to IT).
 
Yeap, that's right, folks- gigabytes worth of data; company intellectual property worth tens of millions of dollars, was deliberately sabotaged in a blatant effort to promote an undereducated, totally incompetent token employee, and make us out to be the bad guys.
 
Last Thursday, after corroborating this, we tendered a full report to security, legal and senior leadership, complete with sworn statements and supporting evidence. We also knew what could happen, and prepared accordingly.
 
Shortly after lunch today, we (the three of us) were summoned by senior management. We were accused of multiple accounts of "demonstrating overt disrespect to both Jamal and our 'boss' by way of making verbal statements and displaying materials demeaning towards African-Americans", "attempted sabotage of company property", and, of course, "filing a false complaint". We three were given until close of business to submit our resignations. We immediately reached into our colleagues binder, and handed over the resignation letters we prepared over the weekend. We were escorted back to our desks to gather our belongings, turned in our badges, and walked out.
 
Less than two weeks after affirmative action was effectively shot down, Boeing, a multi-billion dollar business, doubled down. They literally chose two uneducated token negroids over an MIT grad, a Cal Poly grad, and a Stanford grad. Our former boss who was "retired" for the same thing we did, was a distinguished graduate of the University of Moscow, and before Boeing, was a noted and influential engineer at TsAGI (Central Aero & Hydrodynamics Institute) in Russia.
 
I know we will be vindicated in due course, but Boeing can't pay us enough to go back. Let them eat cake.
 
Not too sure what my next steps will be, but all I can say is Wow. Just Wow."
 
 
 
 
 
 
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