Originally Posted by
cynicalint
Without detracting from the argument about undervalued engineers, the same principle applied to QFIs. Civilianise the training, the trainers recruit ex servicemen cheaply, the RAF does not train QFIS, the supply of RAF QFIs dries up, the civilians cannot produce the goods and the system fails. Penny pinching by accountants, who understand the cost of everything, but nothing about the value.
This was the point my father made in the nineties to the short term focussed management at the large well-known aerospace company he worked for.
The management stated that they were ending their training programs and recruiting trained people on the open market because it would be cheaper and produce results quicker. My father pointed out that this would only work for so long until the supply of available people dried up because no one was training up any more engineers.