I am only speaking for this specific site. Not the entire company.
1) Severe nepotism: The Ridley Park site loves to take care of their own. If you aren't originally from the area, you aren't wanted. I worked at several sites across the country, and this is the first time I ever felt unwelcome. As a matter of fact, it was me, the non-local, who faced a layoff in my department.
2) Absent senior management - My senior manager didn't understand what my duties were. They didn't want to take the time to learn, either, which was confusing. Because they didn't have the base knowledge of how our department was run, they ended up causing many scheduling problems with internal customers and suppliers, and then would hide in their office while everyone else was left to clean up the mess. I lost count of the times I had to apologize on their behalf.
3) Favoritism - As stated previously, if you aren't born and bred in the Philly area, you're going to be in a tough spot. It didn't matter if I did my job well and was liked and valued among my colleagues and customers. The local employees with behavioral problems and past grievances have a much higher chance with keeping their jobs during layoff time.
4) Contradicting values - The Ridley site is trying hard to keep up with the rest of the enterprise, but it truly is the black sheep of the Boeing Company. The same standards you'd see at the other sites do not apply here. You absolutely can't sling the "quality over quantity" and "seek, speak, listen" talk around the factory and then discipline employees who bring up scheduling discrepancies.
6) Refusal to change - The Ridley site is set in their ways, No amount of process improvements or fresh ideas from the "out of towners" will change that. At every site I worked at, management was eager to implement new ideas and processes. Unfortunately, that is not the case at Ridley Park, especially if it makes things harder for the long haulers that are coasting along until retirement. Sometimes change is hard, I get it, but it's also going to be the downfall of the site.
