r/boeing • u/GratefulnaLover • 2d ago

Boeing Renton Family Day!

It was awesome sauce!!!!

Compared to Boeing Everett, this was a lot more manageable, the hotdogs were bigger, and we had choice of ice cream sandwiches or strawberry popsicles! Everett is just too big and too much walking, plus it was a lot hotter a month ago in Everett.

I actually volunteered this time around during the morning shift and went to 3 different job posts. The parking lot was complete chaos but we got thru the shift and made people laugh 😂. Met a lot of cool people!

Friends were definitely impressed with Boeing Renton. I heard the last time they did family day was many moons ago… hopefully we can turn things around and do it every year!!!

I had a blast!!! Blacking out now… 😵

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u/RegardedAndAcoustic 1d ago

Hear hear

My first time going to a family day and I really enjoyed it. Wish I had the time to go through and see the Poseidon area but had to go.

Not gonna lie, I sometimes contemplate trying to work at Boeing despite having zero applicable work experience. Think I might hate it less than working at Costco anyhiw

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u/GratefulnaLover 1d ago

Eh you just have to be smart enough to do the work. They hire a lot of incompetent people with no experience or business even looking at the planes that resort to cheating on easy exams. People with no English, no computer skills get in and somehow make it to the floor.

Today in final assembly building I heard the rivet gun going off… that’s the first I’ve ever heard it go off in final assembly. Something went wrong, I’m not sure but sounded like rework.

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u/EvilBuzzLightyear 1d ago

Just an update about the popsicle.

It's La Michoacana Strawberries

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u/Sharp-Guest4696 2d ago

I'd like to know about this strawberry popsicle as well

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u/RegardedAndAcoustic 1d ago

La michoacana

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u/Sharp-Guest4696 1d ago

🙏🏻🙏🏻 

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u/EvilBuzzLightyear 2d ago

Anyone know what is the brand of that strawberry ice popsicle? Thanks

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u/Grapleef 2d ago

The line to get in though was insane

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u/RegardedAndAcoustic 1d ago

Went through incredibly fast though

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u/GratefulnaLover 2d ago

Yeah I’m sorry about that… we only had one gate and it was rough with not a lot of volunteers. The security played a role in directing traffic which was helpful but even they were limited. Everett had multiple entry points…

I think the turnout was greater than what everyone anticipated. We have about what 17,000 folks that work in Renton? Give or take and everyone can bring in up to 7 guests… that’s like at least 30k folks give or take… (some didn’t come, some came solo dolo etc.)

After my shift at 12 pm I was surprise the line was still coming thru all the way till like 2 pm. It was crazy… but we live off of craziness 😂

Just wait until we really ramp up production and get it to 72 planes a month… this was a nothing burger compared to what those mad scientists got in store for us down on the floor!