Boeing is certainly doing its part around here: They made their cut of
30,000 they projected last year, and they've gone to eliminate 5,000 more
in 2003 from Boeing Commercial.

This, after the top management moved away from around here.

Some may see the movement of Boeing to lay off 80 managers as a good thing,
but the picture isn't really that clear:  The 80 managers are going to take
a reduction in rank to sp6, which means that the specialists the managers
are replacing will be laid off, but before they are, the erstwhile managers
[erstwhile to the title of manager, that is, not the company] will be
trained by the people who are being given 60 day warn notices in order to
provide inferior technical expertise in jobs the former managers were never
suited for [pun intended], and the talent who could do the better job is
eliminated to protect the incompetent.

Anybody want to fly in a Boeing Jet after next year?

Weyerhaeuser [note anyone who's ever worked there knows how to spell it
forever] is laying off over 750 workers from the Corporate Headquarters in
Federal Way, Washington over the next year or two, mostly in the area of
Finance and IT.

Now this may not sound like much, but that's 24% of their workforce in that
small city and they've already outsourced telecommunications to Verizon, IT
to EDS and Benefits to some company or other; they're also closing two
mills in Puget Sound in the near term around Enumclaw; they've also closed
their Springfield, Oregon Mill and sold off and / or closed a number of
their plants.

To be fair, Weyerhaeuser has been cleaning house and has gotten some of the
worst deadwood you could ever imagine--unless you worked at Boeing, of
course--and what kind of expertise do you need anyway, to make cartons for
cigarette manufacturers?

So you have to know that we here in the Pacific Northwet are doing our part
to add to unemployment, dilute or elimnate technical expertise and add to
the homeless in America.

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