The layoffs keep coming:

65aa/1233167071-turn_out_the_lights.jpgBoeing this year will cut about 6 percent of its workforce, roughly 10,000 jobs in all, company officials said today. At least half of those will be in Washington State, including the 4,500 job cuts in the commercial airplane unit that Boeing announced earlier this month. […]

The news came in a sobering teleconference as Boeing announced a $56 million loss for the fourth quarter of 2008, compared to a $1 billion profit for the same quarter in 2007.

21 replies on “The New Boeing Bust”

  1. Oh, for chrissake. Do some research. This is NOTHING like 1970, as anyone who was alive then can tell you. This is NORMAL for the CYCLICAL aircraft industry. Not only have the job losses been about a tenth of what they were then, the share of northwest jobs that are dependent on Boeing is far, far fewer today.

  6. Also: the “leaving Seattle” line was in reference to the fact that people were LEAVING SEATTLE then — the population was going down. It’s about 100,000 today, as high as it’s ever been, and going up; the region as a whole is absolutely booming with new population. The only one who’s leaving is (please, dear God) Subnormal Will.

  8. You’re such an ass, Will.

    …

    Hey, if Seattle was so impoverished back in the day, who had the money for that snarky billboard? Historylink doesn’t say who paid for it. I was just wondering that this morning because there’s a new wingnut billboard up on 15th exhorting us to never forget 9/11. Same nutter who puts up all the war on Xmas billboards and thanks, W, for keeping us safe. I guess that fuck still has money to burn, huh?

  9. The snarky billboard was by a farmer way down south who was a nut job.

    Billboards are pretty cheap when you get down to it, especially when they’re on your own land outside city limits.

  11. @9, no, Will. As always you are wrong. There is a farmer down south who puts kooky krap up on his giant billboard along I-5, but the famous “will the last person leaving Seattle” billboard was not one of his. That billboard was by the airport.

    A more appropriate billboard for today would be “Will, leave Seattle”.

  13. Will, if you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about and you don’t have anything funny to say, then DON’T POST. You’re not required to make shit up just for the sake of posting something.

  14. Will, adding cruise missile work to your resume has just triggered a mental switch in my mind from 8-1/2 x 11 to 11 x 17. I’m with ya; keep bringin it!

  17. But elenchos, Will NEVER knows what the fuck he’s talking about and he NEVER has anything funny to say. Why, you’re sentencing him to a lifetime of never posting anything! Why, that would be — that would be delightful.

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