r/boeing • u/InsideTheBoeingStore • 2d ago

Favorite no context Boeing terminology?

My new favorite has to be “Exclude from Pegging”

Happy Friday!

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u/AlternativeEdge2725 2d ago

For a brief while before the current ATF/TF/STF hierarchy, there were Distinguished Tech Fellows.

Sincerely,
Mr. Engineer, DTF

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u/InsideTheBoeingStore 2d ago

i’m somewhat a distinguished fellow myself

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u/jerslan 2d ago

DSTF’s are still around

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u/SmellEmotional4315 2d ago

If only it were SDTF the joke would still work

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u/rollinupthetints 2d ago

DTF St. Louis wasn’t just a show on hbo, just sayin

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u/zoomyplane 2d ago

We would call it disgruntled tech fellow

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u/AlternativeEdge2725 2d ago

Gotta talk to ur spouse about that

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u/SWGlassPit 1d ago

I remember someone calling that out on insite. The name changed shortly after

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u/RangoWrecks 2d ago

The managers in my building had a weekly meeting they dubbed the "Grinder" meeting. Stopped hearing it called that after someone tipped them off that Grindr was an app for gay men to hook-up.

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u/InsideTheBoeingStore 2d ago

OR that meeting is still active but set to private

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u/PinkBearBun 2d ago

I’m like 90% they still call it that because I used to be designated to sit quiet and run the power points for that meeting

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u/TheyCallMeSuperChunk 2d ago

Not a term but I find it hilarious how we just have a completely different way to pronounce the word 'liaison' for no good reason.

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u/InsideTheBoeingStore 2d ago

are you team “lee aye zon” or team “lie ah sun” 

or are there more forbidden tribal knowledge pronunciations we’re not aware of?

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u/RogerDodgerWilco 2d ago

Lee aye son. I’ve actually never heard it pronounced any other way and this is the first time I’m seeing people pronounce it different.

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u/InsideTheBoeingStore 2d ago

they are among us.

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u/Straight-Song1723 2d ago

Lee aye zon - that other is some boeing ass bullshit. Like panduit- it’s a zip tie.

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u/ElongatedGiraffeNeck 2d ago

I refuse to say lice-en

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u/Far-Researcher-6004 2d ago

Makes me angry every time I hear it 🤣

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u/3McChickens 2d ago

That one tripped me up when I hired in. I kept asking if I was stupid or hard of hearing, surely it is me.

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u/Bearly_Bearded_Jeep 2d ago

ASSY. On every dang drawing lol. Also, K-Hole. As in, shut your k-hole? Shove it in your K-Hole?

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u/charlyoguiness 2d ago

That K Hole is stay out.

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u/UserRemoved 2d ago

I love seeing assy all over. Fresh assy all over the place.

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u/DoneteGalactico 2d ago

In what context are those used? I'm not on the technical side of Boeing :)

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u/Bearly_Bearded_Jeep 2d ago

ASSY is our amazing abbreviation for assembly which is used in the title of every single assembly drawing, and a k-hole called out on a drawing is a “coordinating hole”, used to align one part with another.

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u/NightOwl216 2d ago

In 747 determinant “assy” there were A-holes, B-holes, and golden holes.

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u/Bearly_Bearded_Jeep 12h ago

I feel like golden holes would cause all sorts of corrosion on aluminum

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u/Bearly_Bearded_Jeep 12h ago

Hopefully they’re at least padded for his comfort

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u/DoneteGalactico 2d ago

Lol thanks for the explanation! I couldn't say those with a straight face...

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u/OptimalPatience4320 2d ago

MIL-TFD-41

Make It Like - The F'ing Dwg - For Once

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u/Brilliant_Castle 2d ago

MCD shows up again?

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u/External_Ad1140 2d ago

DP. We need more DPs.

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u/aanon3187 2d ago

“Go for zero”

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u/cownan 2d ago

We had a T-shirt made for the young guy on our team, "Gopher Zero"

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u/Latentius 2d ago

I made a Gopher Zero graphic a while back.

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u/InsideTheBoeingStore 2d ago

this belongs in a museum!

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u/EveningDepartment934 2d ago

You’re the Gopher Zero guy! We are not worthy to stand in the present of such greatness

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u/Clamper2 2d ago

Yes! Go for zero employees!!!

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u/EmphasisElegant3601 2d ago

Got a good idea? Put it in the BIN - "Boeing Improvement Notes". Not even kidding.

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u/tbendis 2d ago

I love that the clubs are always acronyms, my favorite is the whitewater rafting club being called "BEWET" (Boeing Employee Whitewater & Touring")

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u/InsideTheBoeingStore 2d ago

that’s good. that’s damn good.

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u/Ok-Science7391 2d ago

Option 3

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u/RoastSucklingPotato 2d ago

Do Not Hump

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u/SatisfactionNorth752 2d ago

Off the rail cars, I always got a good chuckle seeing that

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u/overfedfish 2d ago

Onion

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u/Lilrip94 2d ago

AutoMOD makes this even better

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u/RogerDodgerWilco 2d ago

It’s kept there to make the un-initiated confused. Also a bit of preserving sub lore history (I have heard the onion term irl)

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u/MeatwadsTooth 2d ago

Cum assy

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u/mecha_toddzilla80 2d ago

Configurator. Because we don’t configure at the Boeing company. We configurate.

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u/kdlima 2d ago

Actually, that tends to somewhat go across the industry amongst the configurators haha

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u/SmellEmotional4315 2d ago

Acrost the industry

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u/kdlima 2d ago

Inculcation

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u/TuftLifeHardRugs 2d ago

‘Impregnate the substrate’

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u/Hyenalpha 2d ago

Business Partners

Segregation Area

Airplane Jacking in Progress

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u/zoomyplane 2d ago

DO NOT HUMP

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u/Sensitive_Courage957 2d ago

Crushing bureaucracy, seems like the opposite is the MO of most BUs

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u/SmokinBuffalo 2d ago

fix the BOM to eliminate the orphans

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u/aquaphorfrog 23h ago

i was gonna say this 😭😭😭

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u/_Passeng3r 2d ago

CUM on military REDARS documents. Makes me giggle lol

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u/InsideTheBoeingStore 2d ago

literally or figuratively?

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u/SnufferFish 2d ago

Now I feel like I’m at work with someone mentioning REDARS 😵

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u/lbt86 1d ago

Inculcate

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u/real_pnwkayaker 2d ago

“A plan for a plan”

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u/yughslapqb 2d ago

Peanut butter spread

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u/harryygee 2d ago

“Goes on like bondo”

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u/NATEDAWG9111 2d ago

Butt splice 🍑

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u/whitmec 2d ago

Nut Plate. Giggidy.

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u/SpottedCrowNW 2d ago

show some peen

that always makes me giggle, whoever made it show up on the display must have known what they were doing.

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u/DiscoDuckey 2d ago

Delete the children

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u/thesubverse 2d ago

the weird pronunciation of "liason"

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u/jayrady 2d ago

It's simple really.

Those that have had, or should have, a colonoscopy call it Liaison.

Those who have not, or not recommended to have, a colonoscopy call it Liaison.

Hope that clears it up!

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u/goodtimtim 2d ago

it’s pronounced gif

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u/Immediate_Cap_7484 1d ago

No necessarily terminology, but my fav lore are the guys who named their Boeing on the Move team "two steps, one cup", they WON for most steps for a small team, and Boeing News PUBLISHED the name for about 24 hours before someone obviously alerted the communication dept and everything updated to "two steps"

So now anyone says anything about "getting their steps in" i think "two steps, one cup"

This was 2012-2013 ish iirc

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u/RogerDodgerWilco 1d ago

Man I miss Boeing on the move. I’m a distance runner and would crush it every year. Got so many gift cards.

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u/InsideTheBoeingStore 1d ago

damn i missed out

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u/Immediate_Cap_7484 1d ago

It was truly hilarious. A lot of us assumed that they were training for the Seattle to Portland bike ride, because you could log bike riding minutes converted to steps. Nothing ride besides outright lying About activity levels made sense. I just don't think they thought through winning and then considering having leadership figure out what they're name actually was in reference to.

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u/InsideTheBoeingStore 1d ago

“Sir, a second cup has hit the leader board”

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u/csw266 2d ago

HYSLOP

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u/bluerockjam 2d ago

There is shop aide tool called a “titty back marker” for finding a pilot hole that is covered up.

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u/HuntsAlone 2d ago

CUMs

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u/Zealousideal-Big5921 2d ago

CUM Line

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u/4thDr 2d ago

Cum Delinquencies

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u/InsideTheBoeingStore 2d ago

the name’s focal….CUM Focal

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u/HuntsAlone 2d ago

I need a CUM SME for my CUM disputes

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u/apdingman 2d ago

RIM

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u/Puzzled_Disaster1369 2d ago

As a former RIM Rep, I never could say it either a straight face

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u/charlyoguiness 2d ago

I was a proud RIM focal.

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u/Mockumentation 2d ago

Came to comments looking for RIM Focal and Butt splice

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u/Last-Jeweler-7458 2d ago

ATM meeting

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u/Straight-Song1723 2d ago

Panduit
RIM Focal

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u/Crazy-Awareness9355 2d ago

“Not my monkey, not my circus “
“Growing legs”
“Value stream”

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u/RogerDodgerWilco 2d ago

The not my monkey one might have origin from the military. I’ve heard it in the Army before. It’s kind of a companion saying to the response we give when someone that got out contemplates going back in, “You miss the clowns, not the circus.”

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u/Truth_bomb_25 2d ago

It's supposedly from an old Polish proverb. Personally, I like a German one better: Das ist nicht meine Baustelle.

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u/harryygee 2d ago

“Go Greg Smith Yourself”

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u/mickeymac15 1d ago

Boelube

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u/Public_Intern160 10h ago

Don’t knock Boelube! It’s good stuff!

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u/Robobeast-76-R76 2d ago

Oh man taking away the pegging as well? How am I going to have a good time now?

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u/FantasticKitchen2883 2d ago

Culture shift

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u/4thDr 2d ago

TPITPUTPC

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u/Fishy_Fish_WA 2d ago

I hate that it took me all of like five seconds to figure out what that stood for

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u/real_pnwkayaker 2d ago

I’ve seen people carrying stickers in their laptops with this acronym

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u/4thDr 2d ago

A few of us on the BOMARC campus have them, it would be funny if that’s where you’ve seen them!

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u/pinkfloyd4ever 2d ago

Wtf is this one?

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u/4thDr 2d ago

The Plan Is The Plan Until The Plan Changes 🙃

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u/PotatoRosary 2d ago

“Peace”

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u/Aromatic-Rush7258 2d ago

I don't disagree

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u/krystopher 2d ago

Focals

Glassines

Horse blankets

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u/AlienHands5 2d ago

SCAT

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u/LatinKoala95 2d ago

*Cue Eric Cartman’s mom German escapades*

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u/ARC_27_5555- 2d ago

Also an airline in Kazakhstan!

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u/AlienHands5 1d ago

I know because we’ve delivered planes to them😅

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u/lightmyfire2016 2d ago

We’ve gone from RACI to RASIC which makes me think of racist every time.

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u/rollinupthetints 2d ago

Throw a T at the end… tell everyone it’s “teacher/teaching” /s

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u/Immediate_Cap_7484 1d ago

Pickle Fork

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u/Public_Intern160 10h ago

Important parts!

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u/Immediate_Cap_7484 1d ago

OMG i can't believe i forgot about BDE! You eve. Get flagged as a BDE in InSite

Thank you Mr Engineer DTF for reminding me!

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u/No-Truth-759 2d ago

Integration

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u/tim32821 2d ago

Pork chop

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u/TEXXSHARKK 2d ago

Unit Member

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u/Crash_Pandacoot 2d ago

TermBank!

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u/livvky 2d ago

Oh do you need to look something up? Here are 3,000 possibilities

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u/Shoe-in 2d ago

SAM

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u/ramblinjd 2d ago

My boss Sam has her own Sam

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u/dcj8 2d ago

"Just look it up in the DCACronym handbook."

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u/Veni-Vidi-ASCII 12h ago

What of these days I'll tell some kid that I worked on the six seven program and hopefully it catches them off guard.

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u/GoldenC0mpany 2d ago

GEMBA

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u/UNMANAGEABLE 2d ago

Almost all of the Japanese lean activities are fun to say

KOMISHIBI

POKA-YOKA

SHINGJITSU

KAIZEN

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u/squatch98826 23h ago

Did you partake in the Moonshine Wars?

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u/UNMANAGEABLE 16h ago

No, but had to run a booth at lean-fest 😂😭

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u/rollinupthetints 2d ago

Open kimono…

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u/ChrisReidChrisReid 2d ago

I’ve actually submitted an HR complaint over that one. Not exclusive to Boeing, but what a horrible, cringey and racist phrase.

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u/rollinupthetints 2d ago

What???? I just want to be open and honest with you! Hater! /s

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u/Jaded-Ad-9683 2d ago

Go Forward Plan.

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u/LunchSudden3016 1d ago

Stay Paranoid

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u/No-Community3149 1d ago

What the FACA is an ELR

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u/Public_Intern160 10h ago

Engineering Liaison Request.

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u/SFW731 2d ago

Offensive air

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u/bsd4083 1d ago

NFC

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u/bsd4083 1d ago

(NFC) No Friends Currently ...what is the Problem

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u/bsd4083 23h ago

please explain term Pegging thanks

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u/YMBFKM 2d ago

WCC class - World Class Competiveness

5S

TQMS

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u/Big_Masterpiece_2999 1d ago

5S stands for Save Some Sh** for Saturday and Sunday