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Alaska Airlines Plane Appears to Have Left Boeing Factory Without Critical Bolts (www.wsj.com)
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[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Engineer: "Measure twice, cut once!"

Accounting: "But what if we don't even cut? Then we save all that money on measuring and any problems can be our supplier's fault."

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Also accounting: cut QA to raise profit

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

Accounting doesn't cut costs or do anything except counting money accurately. Those decisions are made by the operations department.