Process, continued
Wall Street Journal reporting today (Sept. 7 2021, article by Andrew Tangel) that FAA has not given its approval to the inspection process Boeing had proposed to FAA. Reportedly, in their meeting on August 2 with FAA certain Boeing staff presented the company's proposed inspection method or process, but another Boeing engineer disagreed that the proposed method or process would be sufficient. (There is enough detailed reporting in Mr. Tangel's article so that further summarizing of factual points or items wouldn't be helpful here.)
Article does refer in some places to the "team" or "teams" (plural) of Boeing engineers and employees, even referring to them as "teammates".
When were the tryouts for these teams, this SLF/attorney wonders? Aviators undergo real tryouts, what with detailed flight instruction, qualification tests for licenses to be granted, recurrent training, and so on. Isn't it the case that pilots first learn how to fly an airplane, and then how to fly a particular type of airplane? Word choices in contemporary vogue - such as calling groups of employees a "team" - obviously are not either the start or the solution of safety problems confronting Boeing . . . yet the sell-out by the "aerospace giant" widely and frequently derided on this forum very well could be reflected in company culture that encourages employees to yield to group-think mentality rather than thinking for themselves, individually. Or even requires it.