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sin_free_for_00_days ,

Pennies on the dollar.

sin_free_for_00_days ,

In that case, maybe they should stop whining about it.

sin_free_for_00_days ,

OP is tilting at windmills. Here you go:

By Dominic Gates
and Lauren Rosenblatt
Seattle Times staff reporters

Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems and one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit leadership had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died Tuesday morning after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection.

Known as Josh, Dean lived in Wichita, Kan., where Spirit is based. He was 45, had been in good health and was noted for having a healthy lifestyle.

He died after two weeks in critical condition, his aunt Carol Parsons said.

Spirit spokesperson Joe Buccino said: “Our thoughts are with Josh Dean’s family. This sudden loss is stunning news here and for his loved ones.”

Dean had given a deposition in a Spirit shareholder lawsuit and also filed a complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration alleging “serious and gross misconduct by senior quality management of the 737 production line” at Spirit.

Spirit fired Dean in April 2023, and he had filed a complaint with the Department of Labor alleging his termination was in retaliation for raising concerns related to aviation safety.

Parsons said Dean became ill and went to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing just over two weeks ago. He was intubated and developed pneumonia and then a serious bacterial infection, MRSA.

His condition deteriorated rapidly, and he was airlifted from Wichita to a hospital in Oklahoma City, Parsons said. There he was put on an ECMO machine, which circulates and oxygenates a patient’s blood outside the body, taking over heart and lung function when a patient’s organs don’t work on their own.

His mother posted a message Friday on Facebook relating all those details and saying that Dean was “fighting for his life.”

He was heavily sedated and put on dialysis. A CT scan indicated he had suffered a stroke, his mom’s post said.

By the end, doctors were considering amputating both hands and both feet. “It was brutal what he went through,” Parsons said. “Heartbreaking.”

Dean was represented by a law firm in South Carolina that also represented Boeing whistleblower John “Mitch” Barnett.

Barnett was found dead in an apparent suicide in March. He was in the midst of giving depositions alleging Boeing retaliated against him for complaints about quality lapses when he was found dead from a gunshot wound in Charleston, S.C., where Boeing has its 787 manufacturing facility.

The Charleston County Coroner’s Office reported Barnett’s death appeared to be “from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.” Almost two months later, the police investigation into his death is still ongoing.

Brian Knowles, one of Dean’s lawyers, said he didn’t want to speculate about the close timing and circumstances of the two deaths.

“Whistleblowers are needed. They bring to light wrongdoing and corruption in the interests of society. It takes a lot of courage to stand up,” Knowles said. “It’s a difficult set of circumstances. Our thoughts now are with John’s family and Josh’s family.”

Dean, a mechanical engineer, began working at Spirit in 2019. He was laid off the next year following pandemic-related job cuts and returned to Spirit in May 2021 as a quality auditor.

In October 2022, Dean said he found a serious manufacturing defect: mechanics improperly drilling holes in the aft pressure bulkhead of the MAX. When he flagged this issue with management, he said nothing was done.

Focused on those defects, he said he missed during that same audit a separate manufacturing flaw in the fittings that attach the vertical tail fin to the fuselage. When that was discovered in April and caused a delivery pause at Boeing’s Renton plant, Dean was fired.

Then in August, Spirit announced the discovery of improperly drilled holes in the MAX’s aft pressure bulkhead, a flaw that was present in MAXs built as early as 2019. This caused another delivery halt in Renton.

With that discovery, Dean filed a safety complaint with the FAA. He said Spirit had used him as a scapegoat and had lied to the FAA about the aft pressure bulkhead defects.

Larian publishing director on mass layoffs: 'None of these companies are at risk of going bankrupt. They were just at risk of pissing off the shareholders' ( www.pcgamer.com )

Speaking with Game File (users will encounter a paywall) at the Game Developers Choice Awards, Larian director of publishing Michael Douse gave his take on the current state of the industry, including some sharp criticism on the wave after wave of mass layoffs we’ve been seeing....

sin_free_for_00_days ,

Can’t sit around expecting corporations to grow a soul. This just continues to highlight the need for some radical employment laws and regulations. Good luck with your voting.

sin_free_for_00_days ,

Whippet?

sin_free_for_00_days ,

LOL, a third of Americans seem to support an insurrectionist for president as well.

sin_free_for_00_days ,

We all know Justice Thomas won’t step away from this one like he should.

What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working. ( www.cnbc.com )

Traditionally, retiring entails leaving the workforce permanently. However, experts found that the very definition of retirement is also changing between generations....

sin_free_for_00_days ,

apps.urban.org/…/wealth-inequality-charts/

sin_free_for_00_days ,

If his testimony leads to trump being in jail, it would be fucked up, but worth it. Otherwise, yeah, that’s a travesty.

sin_free_for_00_days ,

It’s similar to the aliens in Mars Attacks! claiming to come in peace.

EDIT: Or, as I think about it more, like some spouse beater excusing their actions. “YOU made me do this!”

sin_free_for_00_days ,

I’m sitting here listening to workers dismantle, I mean upgrade, my apartment complex. I’ve lived here for 20+ years. A property management company bought the place, gave us 60 day notices (I have until the end of this month to find a place) so they could refurbish the apartments and then rent them back out. Being the kind, sympathetic fuckheads they are, they offered us original tenants a great deal in having first dibs on the refurbished places. Rent went from $1700 to $3200. So nice of them.

The interesting thing for me was, the week after the sale went through I called up the company to find out where I was supposed to send my rent. The lady had a little trouble finding my info, and then excused herself by saying,“Sorry, we bought 5 apartment complexes this week and the system hasn’t caught up yet.”

This isn’t Washington, but I’ve had similar stories from friends living in different states. It’s a fucked up situation in this country. Yet another issue that politicians just can’t seem to do anything about.

sin_free_for_00_days ,

All these fuckers should be held to the fire when they show up. They need to be asked,“Why? Why did you support this shit?” Hutchison, Kelly, Griffin, Barr, all of them should not get a fucking pass just because they have since come out questioning trump’s fitness.

sin_free_for_00_days ,

If you read BLM as it was intended: “Black Lives Matter ALSO”, throwing out an all lives matter, while superficially the same, is a bit of a slap in the face on a protest slogan about cops killing black people.

[Analysis] Speaker McCarthy is running out of options to stop a shutdown as conservatives balk at a new plan ( apnews.com )

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy was running out of options Monday as he pushed ahead with a plan to keep the federal government from shutting down, but even including hardline border security provisions wasn’t enough to appease the far-right flank in his Republican House majority....

sin_free_for_00_days ,

Not only do Republicans have an obvious inability to legislate, but they actively don’t want anyone else to actually make things work either. What a disgusting group of people. What a fucking weird time to be alive.

sin_free_for_00_days ,

I keep wondering where all these unicorn work-at-home jobs are. Sounds wonderful.

sin_free_for_00_days ,

When your party is so awful that a murderer is recruited to stomp for you.

sin_free_for_00_days ,

“I’m not a Washington Democrat,” Manchin said in the interview

Fucker’s not a Democrat. Well, fake, shitty, whatever pejorative you want to fill in works.

sin_free_for_00_days ,

Littler Mendelson is a law firm that says it specializes in “initiating strategies that lawfully avoid unions.”

What a shitty thing to specialize in. It’s a shame that anyone who works in that law office is able to sleep at night knowing that their specialty is screwing over labor.

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