Liftoff Leads to Layoff for Naughty Boeing CEO
Boeing employees have always been stereotyped as nerdy and dull, but perhaps they adopt this mask as a means of corporate survival.
The corporation, which once employed one in three Seattleites, does not approve of mankind's baser instincts, as evidenced by today's abrupt firing of 68-year-old CEO Harry Stonecipher for marital infidelity.
The company, now based in Chicago, reveals little detail in a press release. What they do divulge is that the affair, with a female Boeing executive, was consensual, that Stonecipher's paramour didn't report to him, and that there is no evidence that the relationship affected business operations. In fact, Boeing stock hit a 3 1/2 year high on Friday.
Nevertheless, "the CEO must set the standard for unimpeachable professional and personal behavior, and the Board determined that [asking for Stonecipher's resignation] was the right and necessary decision under the circumstances."
Seattlest advises interim CEO James A. Bell and all other Boeing employees to keep their rockets in their pockets.
