Several of the top people at Boeing have been "let go," and it's rumored that a woman will replace Calhoun as the CEO. Mr. Calhoun will be out of a job by the end of the year. I hope he can find a new job before he has to go on welfare. At least they gave him nine months to get himself ready for a lower standard of living. Maybe he'll start a GoFundMe to help him buy food and pay the rent until he finds a new job.

When you look at the number of changes in management Boeing has gone through in recent years, you have to wonder why they bother. All they are doing is making millionaires richer.

One of Boeing's largest customers is RyanAir. The head of the company said that when they receive a 737, they have to spend a couple of days examining it and removing tools and replacing missing parts.

"Calhoun's annual salary is about $1.4 million and his target annual bonus is about $17 million. 5 days ago."

Based on an eight-hour day, he's making about $9,000 an hour.

Another source says he made over $24 in 2023, for $12,000 an hour, not bad for a kid from Philadelphia.

I live in a mountain community mostly consisting of retired people 20= miles from Jackson, CA- we are fortunate to have a variety of small businesses that make it convenient to not have to drive 20+ miles down to Jackson for any major shopping. One of those businesses is a small but good grocery store with all the thing of a larger supermarket
- good meat, produce, deli Items not carried by Dollar G. - Well a couple years ago Dollar G came up with a deal to take over the lease on the building of the grocery store- the areas population screamed blood murder - got petition and stopped the take over - well Dollar G bought a lot across the road built a building and was quoted of saying "they were going to run the grocery store out of business - as I said we are in a mountain community 3,500 ft elevation it is known as "the snow line" we get some snow 4 to 10 inches mostly but every year or so 18 to 24 comes in and dew to this being CA some times it is quite wet and heavy OK Dollar G is cheap on everything so the must have been cheap on their building as on our first snow fall this year it was heavy and deep 30 inches on my driveway. This was too much for the new Dollar G store as the roof caved in, destroying the building - no word of them rebuilding.

I watched a video about Dollar General, which owns Dollar Tree. With 19,000 stores across the country, specializing in low-income areas, they have paid $20 million in fines in various states. The problem is that they raise the price in their database, but they do not raise the price on the shelf. You pick up an item marked $7.95, and you might pay $8.25. This type of practice is consistent across the country. One reason for the lack of shelf changing is the minimum staff in the stores. If one person is on the register and another is stocking shelves, who's going to change the price on the shelf?

Of course, if the shelf price must be changed, headquarters should inform the store. If they don't tell a particular store to raise certain prices, the prices stay low, but not in the register. A woman showed a receipt on which four out of seven items were overcharged.

I bought a set of twenty-seven Charlie Chan movies on eight disks, $65 from Amazon. I was able to watch all but one movie. That one kept skipping. Almost every disk messed up part-way through, and I had to remove it and wipe it. I don't know if the disk was dirty or if my old DVD player was dirty. I received another set of DVDs today, $25 from eBay. They contain all forty-two movies and sixty-one radio programs. Most of these "Chan" eBay sites mention the fact that the movies are in public domain, and the quality is not up to modern standards. I bet that notice was prompted by complaints.

I don't need the $65 set I bought from Amazon, and I could sell it on eBay or Amazon. The problem is those problem disks. While I realized "that's life," a buyer might give me a bad rating and demand a refund, including shipping both directions. I've decided to give the set away to one of the groups I attend. As I've said before, people are horrible.

I was shopping yesterday, and a man in front of me threw a fit because his CC was declined by the card reader. He was yelling at the poor, young clerk, demanding that he do something about it. He was screaming and cursing. Customers like this are, unfortunately, not uncommon. When I was in high school, I worked a register at a supermarket for several years. I don't remember ever having a nasty customer.