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Boeing
Employees 168,421 (2013)

Number of employee of Boeing is 168,421 (from wikipedia). Does building aircraft really need so many employees?

I think 1000 engineers is enough to build an aircraft, and 1000 salesperson, 1000 for research, 2000 others (accounting, managerial position, security guard, IT). My estimate is Boeing can survive with only 5000 employees.

>> No.323397

>>323396
Facebook has 6,818 and it's just a shitty website.

>> No.323405

The remaining 163,000 employees are lawyers.

No kidding.

>> No.323406

>>323396
What do you base these numbers on?Do you own an aircraft company?

>> No.323409

I was under the impression that quite a lot of airline companies have maintenance contracts with them so that they don't have to do any repairs themselves

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>> No.323472

>>323396
>My estimate is Boeing can survive with only 5000 employees.

My estimate is you're a fucktard.

I work at an Intel semiconductor fab. We work 12 hour shifts(4 shifts). I work in 1 division, maintaining only one tool-set.
There are ~15 people per shift for my one tool set.
There are ~100 people that work in our department covering related tools.
There are ~80 some odd different tool sets in the factory.

The one factory I work at, out of Intel's 8 or so factories, therefore employs somewhere around 3k workers on shift(heard the number once), without going into support services for us(the power company is our bitch, because interrupted power can destroy our product), gas services, field support technicians, daywalker engineers/tool owners, management, corporate services/support, developers, research and development, salespeople, marketing, finance, packaging and final testing, etc.

In short: Please. Don't. Breed.

>> No.323476

>>323472
To add:
http://archive.azcentral.com/business/rep100/

Intel services 2 factories(linked) in Arizona, and has one minor development house in arizona. 11.6k employees across all of that.

And you expect Boeing, who sells hundreds of fuck-huge aircraft a year, to get by with half that?

>> No.324427

>>323396
>1000 people building many of the most complicated and expensive commercial and military machines ever made

>> No.324456

>>323396
>I think that Boeing keeps more people on their payroll than they need
>I think Boeing pays people to do fuck all

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everyone look

look at the fucktard and laugh

>> No.324559

>>323396
>Boeing can survive with only 5000 employees.

They have more than that in just their legal department

>> No.324603

You understand people need to build the airplanes, right?

>> No.324615

i assume the parts are build by machines

engineers just need to join the parts together to form an airplane

do you really need that much engineers to join parts? i think the answer is no, not much engineers are needed to join the parts.

my estimation is not baseless, it's based on the logical assumption that machines build parts and engineers join parts

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>>323396

wow just wow, it takes us 2500 people to just support the 10k+ plus planes out there. Their fucking answering question from airlines 24-7, making repair/retrofit procedures so planes don't fall out of the sky like JAL123, tracking all the parts and wires, etc. and folks can barely keep up.

>> No.324635

>>324615
>machines that make stuff don't require maintenance
>no QA
>There are no human-required tasks besides design
>there are no technicians, only engineers
>no gas/electrical services
>no operations center keeping an eye on the line

Wow... just... you can do us all a favor and not breed also.

>> No.324637

>>324615

>being this retarded

>> No.324656

No, you fucking NEET. Get a job and go back to school.

>> No.324739

>>323396

m8 just start your own company with 5k employees and beat boeing at their own game.

i believe in you!

>> No.324755

>>323396
>these are the people who post in 4chan
>these are the people who post on /biz/
>these are the people who vote for out politicians
>these are the people who were given the gift of life by God Himself to breathe the air around us

>> No.324772

ITT high-strung and likely coked-out entrepreneurs and business majors get unreasonably angry at a 15 year old

>> No.324811

>>324755
>>these are the people who were given the gift of life by God Himself to breathe the air around us

You do know about the whole sperm and egg thing right?

>> No.324813

>>324615

>I have absolutely no idea what engineers do
>I have absolutely no idea how manufacturing works
>I still have the right to voice my opinion on something that I know absolutely nothing about

>> No.324816

It takes a lot of people to manufacture shit. Most US tech companies like say, Apple, (which you're basing your comparison on) don't "make" anything. They mock up designs and have the production done by Foxconn.

>> No.324819

>>323396

>I think 1000 engineers is enough to build an airplane
>I think the people building the airplanes are engineers
>I don't understand what engineers do

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>>323396
You retard

38,000 people work on this site alone. This is one of the most ginormous buildings int he world.

The union help are called "machinists" and they assemble the planes. Engineers design shit and there are thousands of them.

These fucking planes have millions of small parts and hundreds of miles of wires and shit.

I've been in this building. My ex-gf worked there. The tour is awesome of you ever have the chance.

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>>324772
I fucking laughed. Maybe because I am coked out, but this is still the funniest post in the thread.

>> No.325588

>>323396
engineering
manufacturing
sales
maintenance
corporate development
hr
payroll
accounting
accounts payable
corporate finance
debt financing
audit
investor relations
the list goes on.......

>> No.325600

Yes good goy, and with their profits they could pay employees an extra $1000 per year while working them double hours. Be sure to comment about it on our news article, we appreciate your clicks er opinions!

>> No.326544

>>323396

You must be one our executives
Fuck you Delaney

>> No.326607

>>324615
>engineers join parts

only in r&d. You have skilled technicians building assemblies. Some of them can make engineering type salaries, until their jobs are exported to china.

>> No.326612

If you don't know the difference between an aileron and a flap, please stop posting in this thread.

>> No.326625

>>326612

I'm golden.

OP Boeing has an enormous regulatory overhead to not only be able to design and build a safe plane that will work for 20 years or more, but they also must be able to 100% prove all of their design assumptions though simulations and testing.

Boeing also does a bit more than just build commercial airliners.