Boeing replaces the head of its defense/space/security division
Ted Colbert
Boeing today announced that the head of its defense/space/security division, Ted Colbert, has been removed, effective immediately.
New Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg in his first significant move since taking over in August, said Ted Colbert would be leaving and Steve Parker, the unit’s chief operating officer, would assume Colbert’s responsibilities until a replacement is named at a later date.
One project that Colbert was in charge of was Starliner, a program that has cost the company at least $1.6 billion in overruns because of numerous faulty engineering problems.
Colbert might not be to blame for the endless problems at Starliner, but the fish stinks from the head. He also might be very qualified, but sadly, as his picture shows, he is a minority, and since Boeing went all in on DEI racist hiring quotas a few years ago, which makes the skin color and gender of an applicant a major qualification in hiring, one can’t help wondering if he was a DEI (Didn’t Earn It) hire. At Boeing that policy created a goal to increase black staffing by 20%. Its full report [pdf] makes it very clear it no longer made talent, experience, or skill the primary qualification for getting hired, but skin color and sex took precedence.
As I said, one cannot help wondering if Colbert was hired not because of his great management and engineering knowledge, but because he happened to born with a dark skin color. If so, that might help explain the failures in this paricular division.
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Ted Colbert
Boeing today announced that the head of its defense/space/security division, Ted Colbert, has been removed, effective immediately.
New Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg in his first significant move since taking over in August, said Ted Colbert would be leaving and Steve Parker, the unit’s chief operating officer, would assume Colbert’s responsibilities until a replacement is named at a later date.
One project that Colbert was in charge of was Starliner, a program that has cost the company at least $1.6 billion in overruns because of numerous faulty engineering problems.
Colbert might not be to blame for the endless problems at Starliner, but the fish stinks from the head. He also might be very qualified, but sadly, as his picture shows, he is a minority, and since Boeing went all in on DEI racist hiring quotas a few years ago, which makes the skin color and gender of an applicant a major qualification in hiring, one can’t help wondering if he was a DEI (Didn’t Earn It) hire. At Boeing that policy created a goal to increase black staffing by 20%. Its full report [pdf] makes it very clear it no longer made talent, experience, or skill the primary qualification for getting hired, but skin color and sex took precedence.
As I said, one cannot help wondering if Colbert was hired not because of his great management and engineering knowledge, but because he happened to born with a dark skin color. If so, that might help explain the failures in this paricular division.
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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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This is a textbook example of how demographic-based hiring practices devalue real achievement. For anyone not a Straight White Male (The Oppressors), there will always be doubt as to the person’s actual ability; often, unjustified. But, still there. It’s reverse prejudice, and like the regular kind, harms the same people, but for State-approved reasons. By the same token, any Oppressor in a major role is viewed as having ‘gotten over’ on some exploited minority. Yeah, the Progressive Vision codified the last several decades, ain’t exactly as advertised. Remember that, when you vote Democrat.
Blair Ivey: “…there will always be doubt…” exactly. This is one of the worst evils of DEI.
Non leftist minorities have been pointing to this very real phenomena for decades, it was on affirmative action before DEI, but Democrats don’t care because at root the pushers of this stuff are often the authentic bigots.
There used to be this thing in Corporate Land called a “performance review.” You either performed at or above the expectations, or you didn’t.
Peter Drucker posited that an organization can have only one mission. As soon as it has two or more it will fail at all of them.
My Chemistry degree and years of employed Astronomy instruction is not enough to pretend to be an engineer.
White males need not apply.
That’s the point.
Illusions, delusions.
In a generation or two, will white males be owed reparations?
Agree with all the DEI comments. One other thing is going on here: This is a complete disaster for the competent black engineer hire. Cheers –
WOW – I thought I’d be the voice of “reason” here with my comment “This is the problem with the Leftists’ “didn’t earn it” policies! Does the person REALLY have the abilities or just the “qualifications”? But, it looks like many others see the same issues of having PREFERENTIAL HIRING!! Sure there should be PREFERENTIAL HIRING, but it should be We PREFER SOMEONE WHO CAN DO THE JOB and HAS THE JOB EXPERIENCE and PROVEN RESULTS!!
It is a shame that now people look upon a minority in a position and the first thought is “probably AA or DEI”! That’s not fair to people who have worked hard and succeeded on their own merit! The DEMOcrats don’t care – it’s the VOTES that they crave!
Now, having said all that, did the guy REALLY have the experience and knowledge? If so then he surely had incompetent people below him!
“Agree with all the DEI comments. One other thing is going on here: This is a complete disaster for the competent black engineer hire.”
I know this to be true. I worked with and became friends with a black engineer who grew up in the Cherry Hill area of Baltimore.
You should here him rant about the “racist honkies” he’s had to deal with over the years.
Pretty funny actually and he takes in all in pretty good humor.
The feminists said everything will be better by eliminating males, the racists said that everything will be better when we eliminate whites. They are both habitual liars.