The Boeing industry has been deteriorating and one company insider is certain the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies are to blame. Journalist Chris Rufo published his interview with a company insider who unambiguously declared while some companies can get away with hiring workers based on DEI principles, such as tech companies, by paying diverse applicants more to ensure quality, “this can be catastrophic in lower-margin or legacy companies,” like Boeing.
The unnamed insider said in the interview, “You are playing musical chairs, and if you do the same things that Google is doing, you are going to end up with the bottom 20% of the preferred population.” Therefore, safety issues are the result of the company prioritizing hiring employees based on DEI policies and not on qualifications, leading to quality issues that have endangered lives and hurt the company, according to City Journal.
Boeing has been under intense public scrutiny in recent months after a series of safety issues, leading Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to announce in late March that he will be stepping down from his post at the end of 2024.
Rufo’s report also included the source’s concern that there is “an empty executive suite” meaning a lack of commitment and relation to the airplane industry that top executives possess. The insider points to the current CEO and CFO having gained their experience at General Electric. Top executives are also disconnected from average workers at the company, who would rather not incorporate politics into business as DEI initiatives do.
“The headquarters in Arlington is empty,” the insider told Rufo. “Nobody lives there. It is an empty executive suite. The CEO lives in New Hampshire. The CFO lives in Connecticut. The head of HR lives in Orlando. We just instituted a policy that everyone has to come into work five days a week — except the executive council, which can use the private jets to travel to meetings. And that is the story: it is a company that is under caretakers. It is not under owners. And it is not under people who love airplanes.”
“Boeing is just a symptom of a much bigger problem: the failure of our elites,” the insider said in the interview. “The purpose of the company is now ‘broad stakeholder value,’ including DEI and ESG. This was then embraced as a means to power, which further separated the workforce from the company. And it is ripping our society apart. Boeing is the most visible example because every problem — like, say, a bolt that falls off — gets amplified.”
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