SPECIAL REPORT


(1) STORY IN BRIEF:

(April 15, 2005 to August 08, 2005)

THIS EPISODE SLOWED ALL MY ACTIVITIES FOR A LONG TIME, AND ALL MY LIFE GOALS WENT ON-HOLD

...I'm really just an idiot after all...

...In brief April 2005, after thinking it over for a month, I applied for the open CEO post at Boeing (advertized on TV as "nobody wants it")--- I left many idea-messages on a Boeing Hotline for one week and I gave it my best shot...

...Instead of a reply like "thanks but no thanks", or "we found someone else", or "you're yet not qualified" or just plain "no" , they (my 2nd Level Manager and Boeing's Employee 'Assistance' Program Head) decided to walk me out the door and force me onto an "Involuntary Leave Of Absence" and try to label me a "nut-job" in the process, and forced me to see a shrink...

I did manage to find a shrink who wouldn't "pre-diagnose" and wouldn't force psych-drugs (like so many of them do)--- and the net result officially was "NOTHING WRONG", so I got my job back with "NO RESTRICTIONS"...

...However, it took four months of no pay--- resulting in total collapse of all my credit, and I went bankrupt (and almost got evicted from my apartment, etc)--- but Iived through it...

...HOWEVER I also received no backpay for the four months I was forced out, and NO apologies from those involved at Boeing, and I've been near bottom financially and emotionally ever since...

...I was in very bitter mood for awhile, and still am...

...the new CEO who did get hired is okay from me (I DO NOT want the job anymore)...

...I will likely update this Special Report as time goes (lots of grammar errors etc)--- the main thing is to be as truthful as I can, so that possibly someday this incident can be set right...

...This is one episode of my screwed-up life for which I am NOT proud of and I feel totally stupid about and totally caved-in and defeated, and my "will to live" is a lot less...

...SO, as of mid April 15 2005, life went very wrong for me, and I've been effecting a slow recovery ever since...

...Shows what a moron I am for ever trying it...

2) HOW IT ALL HAPPENED



...late 2004 one Boeing CEO quit, and early 2005 another Boeing CEO got fired --- it was BIG news...

...also in the news for some months Boeing kept reporting "nobody wants the job, we can't find anyone willing to take it" (CEO Post)...

...I had thought it over long and hard since then, and I was waiting for a day when I "felt right" to start applying for the post...

...I had decided the most effective approach for someone of my low rank was to use the Everett-Site Hotline 425-342-4000 (the only means which I saw available at the time)...

CONCURRENTLY: all through most of March 2005, I was experiencing a rather rough cold which would NOT go away--- and by the first week of April 2005, I was getting desperate to do something about it so I bought some DayTime cold medicine (the cheaper generic version of DayQuil), and to rid myself of my cold for-sure I drank 4 vails just before heading to work (on Thursday April 7th 2005)--- after that I was "feeling wonderful" (high on cold-medicine) and that very day I decided to use my new good mood to START on this whole episode; and daily for almost a week, I dosed myself 2-3-4 vails of that stuff, and the Night-Time version too), these were deliberate overdoses to alleviate my cold, and I was "feeling great" from it, certainly released from that cold...

...SO, it was Thursday April 07, 2005, around midnight (end of my shift) I felt like I should start applying so I did, and left my first message on the Hotline: "how do I apply for the open CEO Post? I can't find it listed in BESS "(Boeing Employment Staffing System), and I gave my name and Employee Number and home phone number, etc...

...I couldn't wait for the normal very slow 7-10 day response-time from the Hotline (responses had really gotten slow over the years)...

...The next day I left one or two more messages, and over the next week, I decided I would leave messages on that hotline as thoughts and ideas came to me, and said on the hotline that I would do so...

...After that I became brave and bold, and decided to persevere no matter what...

...I gave many many ideas, gave then as soon as they came to me, and I even called from my home as needed, after all I WAS applying for the open CEO Post at Boeing, and I was giving it all my attention and due importance...

...Each time I said that "I was not joking, that I really was applying for the open CEO Post", and I gave my name, my Employee Number, my home phone number, and sometimes gave my internal Mail-Stop number, I made no attempt to hide (hoping for a reply, which never came)...

...Oh well, perserver Mike, and I gave it my best effort the whole way...

...From my viewpoint, my ideas were as simple and positive and as straight-forward as I could present them, I was even beginning to "sound" confident, and I was having a fun time leaving ideas as they came to me, I even had the feeling that I might even get an offer for the CEO Post (or that someone would contact me, but never it happened)...

...Many of my ideas were "outside the box", some were WAY outside...

...It probably was a dumb idea for a Janitor (really a Factory Airliner Inspector on surplus during layoff) to apply for CEO at Boeing, not to mention to give business-strategy-ideas to top execs--- but so what, I went all-out to give it my best shot (was I ever going to get a reply?)...

...I was expecting a brighter audience at the other end of that Hotline than what I got...

...after the end of one week of ideas on that hotline (Friday, April 15 2005), I had decided to give it up; partly because I was bored with it, and partly I starting to wonder if maybe the overdoses of cold-medicine were adversely affecting me; (I had noticed myself acting a lot more talkative and open than normal)...

...AND over the week of being rather involved with the Hotline I had gotten behind on my Janitor duties on at least two of the days (and I said so on the Hotline), and my Team-Lead had caught me on the phone (hotline) once and he gave me a big reprimand for it...

...but after the one week I decided I ought to cease the Hotline messages to let things settle....

...during this one-week, as I said, I had requested a response on EVERY MESSAGE (and like I said, I gave my name, my Employee Number, my Mail-Stop address, my home phone number, etc)--- for ANY REPLY, to at least tell me to "please stop" or give me a better number to call, or...

...but the lack of any response from that Hotline gave me a sudden chill of fear (Friday, April 15 2005)--- and, as I arrived at work that day (16:00 hours was shift-start), my sixth-sense of danger became all too real, for what was about to occur next !!!

3) I DID NOT DESERVE THIS


FRIDAY, April 15, 2005, 15:30 hrs, as I entered my area to start my shift:

...what came next I did not see coming until I got it--- I was in for a shock and terrified for my life!!!

...as I arrived, my Second Level manager with two security-guards intercepted my entry into our breakroom then sat me aside and told me I had done 83 voice-mails during the week, and that I must go with these people, no option!!!...

...was this a "shock tactic"???, because it DID put me into sudden shock and total fear!!!...

...really 83 voice-messages??? , was that an exaggerated number, 83??? , (seemed to me 33 was more like it) but 83 in a week?!? ---no way, because I was NOT doing 11 to 12 voice mails per day during that week (10 or 12 on one or two of the days but not everyday, somedays only 1 or 2)--- even if 83 was correct, the job I was applying for seemed a bit important, so for me LOTS of communication via voice-messages seemed to be needed (if 83 was even correct), but I rather doubt I did 83 voice-mails during that week, and if so what harm could this have possibly been? maybe some annoyance to the hotline listener(s)?, and is there a set number of voice-mails allowed? and was 83 wrong? had I violated some rule?, and how-come no reply until then?--- each voice mail I had asked to be contacted, and gave easy ways to contact me; and until then my entire motivation was to give my best efforts to help Boeing...

...but regardless, my Second Level Supervisor (some lady who knows nothing about airplanes, nor much else) insisted that "I needed help, and that I needed to go with these people"--- and she would not allow any other outcome--- there were security guards waiting to haul me off!!!...

...it was my worst nightmare scenario!!!...

...this group drove me straight down to Boeing Medical to see the EAP Head (Employee "Assistance" Program) he looked like the typical "shrink" with the wierd mustache and goatee (and he knew nothing about airplanes either)...

...when we arrived at the EAP's office area, as I was being escorted in, there were many Security Personel waiting in various corners, AND we passed a nurse preparing a "needle"!!! (WHAT was I getting into?!?)--- when I saw all that, my neck-hairs stood up!!! I thought was I about to be held down by security and forced-drugged if I got out of line!!! ---I was in stark terror!!!...

...Wow, was THIS the REAL Boeing ???...

...I remained calm, fortunatly; I didn't get the needle at least, and no security guards needed to sack me...

...The EAP Counselor asked a few questions and pretended to listen to one or two of my answers then said "that's it", said I was "unable to work", and then forced me go on a "recommended" but Involuntary Leave Of Absence (ILOA)to see "Outside Providers" (shrinks) to clear me back to work, "but if you don't you're terminated"...

...(side-notes) I've heard from many sources that being labled as a "nut job" from shrinks is almost always fatal, because a shrink's Diagnostic And Statistical Manual labels every human action as some form of "mental-illness" (espesially being creative with ideas, ie: "thinking outside the box")--- and once you get into a shrink's hands 97 percent of the time they drug you by force, in which case you really do end up as a total a nut-job; as an example look closer at every homeless bum on the street, you will see a direct product of shrinks...)

...I have never done any drugs (except for the DayQuil then) , I never smoked and I rarely drink, which means I'm possibly more clear-headed than most people, which is likely how I can come up with lots of ideas; most of my "ideas" are fueled by observing what is needed or wanted and then merely re-arange what already exists...

...needless to say, I was in major trouble if I succumbed to this...

...A BIG mistake on that day: I was not demanding a Union Rep, and of course they (Boeing's side) all kept saying that I didn't need one, and I was much too in shock to DEMAND on (terrified of that needle and those security guards), and they kept telling me that "you'e not being disciplined"--- but then how come I was down there then???...

...and another BIG mistake is that I'm pretty sure that I signed something (under fear of that needle) (and the shock of the entire event)(and coercion from that EAP fellow), I remember I was shaking with fear of what might happen if I didn't "cooperate"...

...so basically, I was kicked out of Boeing April 15, 2005 for applying for CEO, and for 83 voice mails on that hotline--- and unofficially labled as a "nut-job, unable to work"--- (with no pay!!!)...

...the sudden trama of being forced out of my job and no income triggered defensive reactions from myself at that time...

...(to my shame and detriment) the next few days after this I put several MORE messeges on that hotline, but I was slightly paranoid (probably a reaction to the "no job" plus cold-medicine side-effect) and I honestly thought they were then trying to kill me outright, or by bankruptcy--- and bankrupting suppliers and other companies IS a "business tactic" which Boeing uses (I've heard stories)...

...regardless, all this caused me to become very paranoid and in fear for my life, some of the "new" messages I put on that hotline were accusations and bizzar statements--- (which then and there, I DID sound like a nut-job in some ways, possibly), but if I hadn't've been kicked out to begin with, I doubt I would've reacted this way...

...by the time I was done, the Hotline mailbox was full (135 messages they said later), my phone-line was tapped, my home computer was hacked with spyware my ZoneAlarm couldn't delete, strange surveylance devices were deployed at various places around my apartment, and everywhere I walked someone followed me!!! I think I had put the entire US onto full RED ALERT status--- oh, and also Boeing (or somebody) harrassed and put total fear into many acquaintance-friends of mine!!!

...thus I had almost sealed my fate!!!

...luckily I realized this stupidness in myself only after I had said it, and I decided I had better "wise-up real quick or else"...

...by end of Aprill 2005, I had contacted two shrinks who read my case and wanted to pre-diagnose and force drugs (one said "I was manic" and prescribed some drug or other, and the other said "I was something-else" and he prescribed yet another drug); I took none and did none, there was no way I was going to succum to this episode...

...the side-effects of the DayTime cold-remedy started to wear-off shortly after the above, beginning of May 2005...

...by a pure miracle, by mid May 2005, I found a shrink who wouldn't pre-diagnose and who wouldn't force drugs; lucky for me, this shrink merely did interviews with myself, and with a friend or two as character witnesses, and his conclusion by August was that "Mike ain't Psycho, and is fit to work" (that it took until August 2005)...

...on August 8, 2005, I got let back into work at Boeing, my Release Sheet said "NO HOOPS" (no restrictions)...

...but I went April 15, 2005 to August 8, 2005 with almost no income, then our Union went on strike all through September 2005--- so 5 months of near zero income--- regardless, life for me went seriously wrong since April 15, 2005--- and I've felt like garbage ever since...

...on the positive, I think Boeing is now doing one or two of the ideas that I put on that hotline, either they were good ideas or they "thought them up on their own"--- and as of 2007 or so, it seems to be "raining money"--- just like I had said on that hotline a number of times...

...whenever Boeing advertizes (on TV commercials) that they "encourage innovation" and "welcome ideas" and "open door policy", and "fairness and Integrety in all dealings",and, and, and--- it's all a load of bull--- in 2005 even their home webpage said "Boeing does not accept unsolicited ideas"...

... In terms of Damages: EVEN IF I did a lot of voice mails, can't voice mails be deleted with probably zero costs?, how much damage is that?--- compared to myself: four months of no pay and complete collapse of all my credit and bankrupt...

...EVEN IF my ideas were totally batty, EVEN IF I sounded like a total loony-toon, the "Equal Opportunity Law" says no discriminating for race, religion, age, sex, and mental-status--- so how come Boeing discriminated?...

...Another other chilling possiblility is: that THIS was / is how Boeing operates all the time, and is how they put people away (I have heard stories of such), which is why I probably need a good lawyer to fight this (I've tried many, and I'm still hoping), but Boeing knew I was just a "working-class", thus poor, thus they knew they could get away with what they did...

...funny thing, Jan 2006, at the new-year all-hands meeting, the same 2nd Level Supervisor (the very lady who insisted I "needed help and need to go with these people"), gave a speech about "give others the benefit of the doubt", and "think positive about other people, instead of negative"...

...Oh, that Hotline is not open anymore...

...other than that I feel like a total moron, ever since...

4) POSSIBLE REASONS FOR MISCONCEPTION:


(a) April 07, 2005 (the day I started this stupid attempt), I got myself slightly high or "buzzed" on cold-medicine on purpose to alleviate my cold symptoms, which put me into an altered state of 'bliss' and sped-up speach and talkativeness, including heart-rate, metabolism and all sorts of rate-increases (normally for colds I didn't take ANY medication, just rest and suffer through them and tried to increase my nutrition and take Vitamin-C and go through a cold)...(this time was a rough cold which lingered for 3-4 weeks, so I was desperate).

(b) After the very FIRST message (April 07, 2005, a thursday), I only waited until the next day, and then I kept right on leaving messages .. what I SHOULD HAVE DONE was wait for a reply, but I was too impatient... (the ussual reply was 2-3 business days, sometimes within 7-10 days).

(c) On day two (April 08, 2005) I purposefully changed my personality into someone who was very bold and confident, as if I owned the CEO Postion already, and I started leaving long messages about this and that--- (normally I am rather reserved and don't say much, so THIS personality switch could've seemed odd to anyone who didn't know me)

(d) After about the third day of messages, I got intel that "there were TWO applicants and ONE OUTSIDER", and I had the mistaken idea that I was the "outsider", and I started calling myself "The Outsider" on the Hotline messages, and sometimes I called myself "The Ousider who is really The Insider" (because after all, I did work their) --- this was plain BAD INTEL--- "the outsider" was the fellow who got hired eventually--- this would make me sound like a loon all through the voice-messages I left.

(e) It turns out these Hotline messages were NOT arriving at the top-manager as advetized, so I was NOT really talking to a high-up manager, they were merely going to either Boeing News or Boeing Ethics, and these people know nothing about anything much less putting airliners together, ie total dumbbells.

(f) I did voice A LOT of meassages, plain and simple... I hadn't realized HOW MANY untill the day I got walked out (when my manager told me 83, might really have been 33, but there was no way for me to confirm nor deny this).

(g) Not only did I speak airplane and business-strategy ideas, but also "other" topics which were NOT EVEN related---
Including stuff about headaches and colds, and how to know past-lives, and about Jedi's, and about Christ, and, and, and... (stuff I normally keep to myself)---
Oh, and I kept talking about a tactical maneuver I call "The Buggs Bunny side-step", where Buggs lets the bull run into the anvil, and his antics he used to defeat adversaries---
So these topics I voiced were "all over the map", and could've been seen as a bit wierd, and possibly NOT a good choice to put on a Hotline for a major company---
Ussually, I never say ANY of my personal beliefs to anyone.

(h) the very last message (Friday morning April 15, 2005), I had looked in the mirror and had noticed that if I had long hair, a beard, thinner face, and wore a white robe, that I would look like Christ, and I put this on that Hotline---
Big mistake THAT was (and I think it was the cold-medicine-high speaking)...

(i) AFTER being escorted out the door I left even MORE messages---
I honestly THOUGHT they (Boeing hit-men) were about to kill me one way or another, so from my viewpoint it didn't matter what I did or said---
and I went off the deep end for a bit---
I thought I was being crucified for saying I looked like Christ, so I "let-loose" for another 3-4 days until the voice-mailbox said it was full---
BUT leaving more messages after being kicked out was a mistake on my part...
This almost sealed my fate---

(j) Some people get scared when a low-statused individual attempts to rise-up in rank (ie myself a janitor), and some people just can't stand sane answers from a low-status individual, and some cannot stand sanity whatsoever...

k) My Boeing 2nd Level Manager, and/or the Boeing EAP Head, and/or someone from the Hotline, and/or someone else unknown, or all-the-above (all Boeing-Persons involved) have EMBELLISHED and/or outright FABRICATED their side of the story.

5) SIDE NOTES WHY THE HOTLINE



0) This Hotline (425-342-4000) was advertized since early 1990 as a direct line to the Top Manager of the Everett Site---
I had used many times over the years with fair success---
Normally I would leave a message (sometimes a question) about some issue or concern, and then wait a couple days for a reply, sometimes I would wait quite a few days---
I always received a reply.

1) I could not find "CEO" listed in BESS (Boeing Enterprise Staffing System), although I only did minimal searching, then doubted "CEO" was listed at all.

2) I wanted to get noticed form someone high up.

3) This Hotline was a resource already available, and indeed it was probably the ONLY resource for someone of low-status like myself (a janitor).

4) I've heard many times from Business Schools and Resume Advisers, that "30-second commercials" (verbal resumes) are much more effective than a piece of paper.

5) In my opinion, paper-resumes are BORING, I fall sleep reading them, even mine.

6) I've read some of the most fantastic, colorful, "action" resumes, and then found out by watching the person working (after they were hired) that their resume really meant nothing--- because regardless of their resume, most persons STILL needed to learn their job for at least four weeks, sometimes three months, sometimes half a year, and some individuals never learned their job (and couldn't've cared less)---
SO, in my opinion some resumes are almost worthless.

7) Personal experience for me so far: EVERY JOB I EVER GOT HIRED FOR I NEVER NEEDED A RESUME (even though I had one written up and available, my resume wasn't needed and seemingly wasn't used even to get my foot in the door, they person hiring "just knew me" in about 30 seconds).

8) ON the Hotline itself, option #1 said it was for the General Manager of the Everett Site (later on it said "Everett Site Leadership Team"), so I thought all voice-mail messages went straight to the top --- (I found out AFTER ALL THIS that that was totally false, that option #1, and every option #, was really an "Ethics Line" (went to either News Break or to Ethics Department) and rarely ever went to the General Manager---
So my entire premis and line of reasoning for using that Hotline turned out to be wrong waisted and worthless.

9) THUS on the other end of that Hotline was probably some phone operator who knew zero about airliners nor managing etc etc, and probably wondered "who is this loon?"

6) WHY I DID IT


Good question


(A) I had "thought it over" for at least five weeks on how to go about doing it.

(B) The News Reports were that "nobody wanted it and can't seem to find anyone" (for the open CEO post)--- my main operating principle in searching / applying for jobs are the "jobs nobody wants and we can't seem to find anyone"--- this eliminates competition and panned very well for me until recent times---
ALSO I wanted to test Boeing's "public statements",

(C) I always operate with "unorthodox but effective methods"---
And after I've decided on a course of action I go do it.

(D) I do "bold and daring things" from time to time, not "stunts" and not "practical jokes", but things that require real guts of personality---
I do things like this quite often.

(E) Boeing always advertizes "open door policy" , and "we encourage innovation", and "we do not discriminate", and "we welcome diversity", and, and, and etc.---
Boeing's "Ethics Code Of Conduct" says they are to "use fairness and integrety in all dealings" (and make every employee sign a copy of this)---
I wanted to test these.

(F) The Boeing Company at times is a rather insane disappointing place to work, and I had decided to attempt to put some sanity into it.

(G) I sincerely believed that I could do the job (with some training of course), and make Boeing a better company.

(H) I sincerely was expecting a brighter audience on the other end of that Hotline and I naively believed Boeing would welcome my inputs---
(what I found out later was completely opposite).

(I) I generally seek out TRUTH, and that is what I was seeking in this case too.

(J) If not as a CEO, I'm pretty sure I could be an excellent "Idea Man" on all sorts of topics, and generally I have an 85 percent minimum success rate on my ideas (B average, just like in high-school)---
And so I was attempting to advance myself to a higher up postition by as direct a method as I could.

(K) Many coworkers (before all this ever started, whom knew nothing of this episode) through many years have told me "you ought to run the place someday, it would sure run smoother"---
But I'm rather discouraged now....

(L) I'm not the "typical worker", I've never did the minimum amount in exchange for a paycheck (and I'm still that way even after all this)---
Often I do 2 or 3 times the volume of production of any coworker, but I DO occasionally get bogged down with unethical co-workers and supervisors who play politics...

(M) I own two books titled: "First, Break All The Rules" and "Next, Discover Your Strengths" (I forget the authors' names )---
While a Janitor, I had seen these on many Boeing Manager's and Employee's' desks (so I went and bought my own), and these inspired me---
What a crock...

(N) I wanted to work at Boeing since I was 3 or 4 years old, and had grown-up near the Renton Plant watching 737s and 727s and then 757s blast off a lot.

(O) Nov / Dec 1988 I got my wish, got trained then hired as a Boeing Quality Assurance (QA) Inspector in January 1989, and since 1999 took downgrades to Janitor to stay employed during QA layoffs, life was good until the "merger" with McDonnell Douglas in 1998... (I happened to still be a Janitor at the time of this episode), (but as of July 2006 I was recalled back to QA Inspector).

(P) Sometime after "the Boeing-McDonald-Douglas merger" (1998), I began to notice unbelievable stupidity in how things were being run, and I wanted to reset things back to sanity---
A very futile wish.

7) MY OWN INVESTIGATION / INTEL


...my Boeing 2nd Level Manager, the Boeing EAP Head, someone from the Hotline, and/or someone else unknown (or all-the-above) have EMBELLISHED outright FABRICATED and just plain LIED ABOUT their "facts"...

...to my knowledge, the Boeing EAP Head made the whole incident "classifided" --- so he could manipulate the true story? and so Boeing always looked legal? , and so I looked like a nut-job?...

...the whole episode was blown way out of proportion as far as Boeing's side of it...

...I did try to get some action from my IAM-751 Machinists Union Rep, but it took forever... and finally, by late October 2005 (after the strike) he said he couldn't help me one bit, in fact he bought Boeing's side of it, AND he confirmed that I would've got the needle if I didn't cooperate!...

...I did a report to the Federal EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), and their investigation was over June 2006, they bought Boeing's story over mine, so my case was "dismissed"...

...what was odd, these two agencies were about to help me in a big way but at the last minute they both caved-in and widthdrew---
SO I LOOKED DEEPER FOR MY OWN ANSWERS...

...by June 2006, from my own investigating, Boeing Ethics Department said they deleted all the voice-mails from that hotline, but on the EAPs written transcripts of the voice-mails they seem to have altered and rearranged and scrambled everything I had said so that I sounded worse---
So that in their reports I do sound like a total nut-job---
(and again, I will admit, I "dug my own hole" a little bit on my own when I left even more voice-messages after being walked out the door)...

...and one other bit I've pieced together, is that someone from the EEOC, or the Union Rep, would be almost gung-ho to help me, but whenever they needed "info" on my incident, Boeing's EAP Head would have me sign a "Release Of Information Waiver" which I did each time---
THEN next thing I heard back from the EEOC or the Union Rep was that "they HAD DROPPED my case!!!" AND they would "quote" back to me scrambbled-up, out-of-context "repeats" of what Boeing's EAP Head said I had said on the Hotline---
And what I gathered from this is that possibly there really was no record of this incident whatsoever, and maybe the EAP Head was purposely altering everything I had said to make me sound "off-the-wall"---
Boeing does this sort of thing quite often by the way...

...I doubt the actual voice mails were saved "as-is"---
And if they are saved at all, I'll bet they are altered and embellished and rearranged, to make all persons on Boeing's side seem justified, and make me into "a nut-job"...

...Oh, also for some reason, Boeing's HR department knew nothing about this incident until I asked them about it, very odd---
And as soon as they DID "investigated it" HR promptly dropped it too...

...I'll bet that in April 2005, my Second Level Manager and / or someone from that Hotline couldn't stand to have a Janitor (or a low-statused individual) applying for Boeing CEO, and THAT is really how this all started, and the Boeing EAP Head manipulated the facts (possibly he was he being "orded" to manipulate the facts by higher-up managers at Boeing)...

...Oh by the way, Boeing's contractor for EAP actions is called "Value Options" which has the typical slogan of "we put people first" (didn't do that in my case, and I found no Value in their "services", and I had zero Options)---
It took me over a year to get my records from them (Nov 2006)---
Very slanderous and derogatory records of myself, when I finally received them...

...I found out that this statement is true: almost all Big Companies like Boeing hire many shrinks (Psychs, Psychiatrists, Psychologists) for the sole purpose to ruin indviduals who achieve too much, who think too much, and who ask too much---
So beware...

8) MY CONCLUSIONS:


(a) Either my Boeing 2nd Level Manager, and/or the Boeing EAP Head, and/or someone from the Hotline, and/or someone else unknown (or all-the-above), have EMBELLISHED and/or outright FABRICATED their "facts"...

(b) Any and every "Public Statement" made by any big company, especially as big as Boeing, is mere "PR", ie: really NOT true.

(c) All the posters around Boeing Learning Centers with various business-phrases which say "Think Big" or "Stretch Your Limits" or any such cheery phrases (which all Big Corporations advertize on TV), are only meant to "make you think happy thoughts to buy their products"---
Not meant for you to actually do them.

(d) I have found out THAT I AM NOT as great as I ever thought I was---
IN FACT I've found out THAT I AM probably a piece of crap and pretty much "a nothing"---
Boeing said so very clearly by their actions of putting me out the door like they did then.

(e) I'm glad I have my job back, and a source of income again at Boeing, and I plan to continue it as long as possible and/or until I am able to move on to some other activity.

(f) Boeing is still sometimes good to work for, and sometimes still rather corrupt and unethical dispite their best efforts to resolve their problems---
There are still certain workers and managers who are corrupt, or at the very least very manipulating, which exists in any / every company...

(g) But hey, Boeing is letting me work for them after all this, so maybe collectively the company isn't as "bad" as I think it is, but that by some "wierd luck" I managed to collide with the perfect two or three individuals who hate to have lower social status individuals like me succeeding...

(h) I need the income to pay down my incurred debts---
But after I'm done with debts then I move-on---
Either quietly kick-the-bucket somewhere, or go persue some other interest...

(i) Beyond that, I'm probably a total loser and a piece of junk, for real, and I should just die---
I think that was what certain persons from Boeing wanted, it sure seemed like it---
But now I got debts to clear first, and I really don't feel like dying just yet, despite all the harsh lessons that this episode has "taught" me.

(j) A PRIMARY REASON of WHY this episode backfired into my face is: I am too naive and believed the PR statements.

(k) But since I really didn't ask for the time off, and since I really didn't DO actual harm to Boeing, nor to anyone working at Boeing, nor did I threaten anyone, then I did not deserve the time off, nor the "forced LOA" that I received, and I should be recompensed for that forced time off, and
that is that.

(l) I doubt I'll get recompensed for my "forced Involuntary Leave Of Absence---
Because Boeing really isn't the comany they advertise themselves to be.

(m) ALL SAID, I AM VERY LUCKY TO GET MY JOB BACK---
I wish I wasn't so so stupid, but I am (or was then)---
It sure cost me a lot...

(n) Never believe anything Boeing Management says, NEVER.

9) RECOVEREY AND REPAIR


...at a Boeing Gift-Store, I watched a part of a video where even William Boeing HIMSELF was forced to quit (in the 1930s era), and he sold all his stock in total discouragement---
almost like me...

...The only way for recovery which I see for me now, is to take responsibility for what I did and climb back up and "move on", and IF by some miracle I pay off my debts (some years from now) I'll then re-evaluate and decide whether Boeing is worth working for, but right now I have little options except to work for them for my income, so that is that---
And it WAS what I wanted to do since I was 3 or 4 years old---
Yet there are many times when it is a very discouraging company to work for...

...I got let back at work since Aug 2005, so I should be, and I am, grateful to have my job back, and I still do my honest-best every day...

...however I am totally damaged financially, 20 years of perfect credit now totally caved-in (gone), I almost got evicted from my apartment of the time, and $60K of debt in collections (which ballooned to $90K) and a house which I was about to purchase in 2005 didn't happen...

...March 2007, I am affecting a slow recovery, debt at about $75K...

...May 2008, debt at about $45K, so I do have some hope still...

...what I'm really looking for is someone really high up in Boeing to read this and to look into it a bit, and then see what their oppinion is, maybe they will apply their "fairness and integrity" policy...

...I only want Damage Compensation and / or lost wages (minimum about $15K), and fix my credit, but I've been told by some that I could sue for much higher money---
But I'm poor and I'm not greedy, and I don't punish...

...One reason for which I haven't gone public is maybe I AM a "nut-job" after all--- I sure feel stupid ever since this incident...

...Another reason for which I haven't gone public nor went to a TV station with this episode, is most people kinda have a non-reality factor about even attempting such a high job posting as CEO---
They say "why would anyone want such a job?"--- See, no reality of it...

...Yet another reason is because Boeing's Ethics Code also has a phase about "...any actions which bring ill-repute to Boeing..."---
From me, the viewpoint of someone who wanted to work there since he was 3 or 4, this episode has brought nothing but ill-repute to Boeing FROM ME!!!

...(actually, Boeing's ill-repute from my perspective, started sometime after "the Douglas merger" (1998-ish) when I began to notice unbelievable stupidity in how things were being run, but that is a different story altogether)...

...I no longer want to apply for Boeing CEO because I'm totally discouraged about it, and I really doubt I could do the job after all (or maybe I could've, who knows)...

...in total discouragement and with a very low "will to live" I yet carry on...

10) THANK YOU FOR READING



I'm doing okay for now, but very bitter and near bankrupt, but still "making it somehow"...

comments / lawyers / loan-officers:

Mike J Scheerens

messages: 1-425-258-9794
Everett, WA -- USA

mjs9025@yahoo.com  
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GREAT NEWS...
new website started "next apartment"
April 04, 2008


climbing out of the mud, once again...


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