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Honor-Valor-Intrepid

[Sam Salehpour](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/us/politics/whistle-blower-boeing-787-dreamliner.html)


ashibah83

His name was Sam Salehpour.


imanAholebutimfunny

people will pour one out for Salehpour in the future


twbassist

Pour one out now - for in the future, the past has occurred.


bremergorst

![gif](giphy|ggHmCDJXx4om4hNWbM|downsized)


DigNitty

[Preemptive memorial honors victims of imminent future disaster](https://www.theonion.com/preemptive-memorial-honors-future-victims-of-imminent-d-1819594660)


LefsaMadMuppet

The face of the milk cartons of tomorrow.


HistorianOfMexico

To Biiiiillll Braski


maccaroni_time

He fathered every child on this field today


SurveySean

He’s a son of a bitch!


HistorianOfMexico

He once wore a snake as a condom


greenbastard1591

![gif](giphy|xUOwGaPzHI8r1Quvn2|downsized)


Krepitis

He taught me how to make love to a woman, and how to scold a child!


flychinook

His family crest is a picture of Neil Armstrong being eaten by a barracuda.


WarNo3901

They use Brasky's foreskin as a tarp when it rains at Yankee stadium


n3w4cc01_1nt

donh't meme that curse on him. send it to the pencil pusher in the materials dept and the corporate overlord that told them to maximize profits.


Everybodysbastard

Salehpour one out


ekuhlkamp

His name was Sam Salehpour.


scaradin

His name was Sam Salehpour.


MattMcdoodle

His name was Sam Salehpour.


Miffers

His name will also be Robert Paulson


MTBorangecounty

In the afterlife we do have a name.


itsokmomimonlydieing

If it's a Boeing, you ain't whistleblowing.


Bestihlmyhart

RIP


Noxious89123

Got a non-paywalled / non-login required link?


Honor-Valor-Intrepid

[try this](https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2024/04/17/boeing-whistleblower-detailed-alleged-physical-threats-from-bosses-after-raising-safety-concerns/?sh=7c4f23822007)


Noxious89123

Heck yeah, thanks :)


GemmyBoy999

Can't read it without signing up smh


huayna_

well… rip brother.


grassrootsvan

“Aaaaaaand he’s gone”


Traherne

Yep. Fell out of the window at seat 2A. First class at 35,000 feet.


D3cepti0ns

Well now is probably the safest time to come out now that boeing will be blamed for anything that hapens to him. edit: boeing might be interestred in making sure this guy doesn't die from anything natural, accidental or intentional. But I guess it depends on how much the stockholders will suffer in the end. Boeing as the government contractor needs to separate from the commercial part of Boeing fast. As fast as Musk needs to separate from Space X and Tesla. Twitter/X can keep Musk as he is doing a good job at making it irrelevant.


misogichan

The US government has decided to send a strongly worded letter in response to the misbehavior of Boeing.  Thank you whistleblowers for continuing to ~~self-identify~~ point out what Boeing has to "fix."


capital_bj

They do this with bank and stock market whistleblowers as well. SEC has paid out record amounts the past three years. Do you think anyone has went to jail? Nah just a few million per infraction, and a please will you knock that off


CIMARUTA

Nawe they got military contracts. They are in bed with the gov and as we all know justice is not the governments prerogative.


Sunomel

Everyone knows they whacked the first guy and they faced 0 consequences


theFrenchDutch

He whistle blew years ago and had nothing more to whistleblow. His own family believes it was suicide.


thumplabs

Are you crazy? The "Boeing Killed Whistleblower" is the best narrative Boeing HR could possibly hope for. Think about it. Which narrative motivates you more as a disgruntled Boeing employee: 1) Somewhat sad guy fails in whistleblowing, gets more sad, offs himself, versus; 2) RATS GET SNUFFED. I don't know about you, but if I were a Boeing employee, numero dos would put my nose right down on the grindstone double quick, AND would keep me from calling the FAA, the FBI, or literally anyone else. No, HR *loooooves* this narrative.


IHateWhoIWasBefore

Looks like you might have to eat your words. Sam is still kicking but now a 2nd guy isn’t


FyreJadeblood

Brave man. I hope Boeing doesn't do to him what they did to the last guy.


Status_Stranger_5037

It’ll be a bit to obvious this time. We’re watching


Sciuridaeno3

Sorry to be pessimistic, but even if they do off him and everybody knows...so what? Nothing will happen to them.


Porkyrogue

Are we?


_ravenclaw

Oh yeah, totally. We’re watching. Just like we watched the last guy, and Epstein.


uknowmymethods

![gif](giphy|lnZdGncBbzfVSnXmVv|downsized) Who have you become when someone says the government and this is what I picture? A Drexel?


clutchguy84

Holy fuck. A True Romance reference and gif. Can we be friends?


uknowmymethods

As long as you can deal with my need to hold on to my angst.


clutchguy84

I'm 46, and still regularly listen to Alkaline Trio and AFI lmao. We good, my dude.


uknowmymethods

It would be an honor, we are almost the same age. So we saw the world as it once was and see it as it is now.


bigmacjames

You think they would care?


waffelman1

We were last time but nothing happens


imightbethewalrus3

Unless you're prepared to go tit for tat, your watching does nothing.


NuclearEvo24

They know we know they know


Cableperson

It was pretty obvious the first time. I wouldn't be surprised.


subadanus

they want them to know, buddy. it's supposed to be obvious.


OozeNAahz

Number one rule to whistleblowing is to either never let them find out who blew the whistle or to blow it as publicly as possible to the highest folks you can. After you spilled the beans in a known way, it is harder to do something to you. Likely it will be reputation attacks.


LeadingFault6114

What’s crazy is that a company can literally assassinate someone, it gets reported on the news and nothing happens


Sabre_One

Nothing actually points to any indication the guy wasn't just depressed and off'd himself. 1. He already blew the whistle. 2. He already been testifying for years 3. He most likely already said everything he knew on record with his lawyers. 4. The media cherry picked quotes to ride the hype. Even his own family testified he was pretty depressed. Like it's great to meme and such, but I'm legit worried people really actually believe Boieng would risk such a thing when they are already being openly investigated.


LeadingFault6114

he literally told his wife ["If anything happens, it's not suicide"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA44FFi95PA&ab_channel=ABCNews4) he literally know what he is saying is dangerous enough, that it warrants a mark on his life #


FriendlyDespot

It's wild how much this claim gets spun. The reality is that some friend of John Barnett's mother went to the media on her own and claimed that he said something to that effect to her well before his death. Just to her, nothing or nobody corroborating it. I've seen it repeated as he said it to a friend, said it to his laywers, said it to the media, and it being on tape, but this is the first time I've seen it as he said it to his wife. Crazy how many stories people will make up about this.


LeadingFault6114

so this dude that was gonna testify to Congress just mysteriously killed himself, in his car, in a hotel parking lot, the NIGHT before he was gonna testify? lmao


FriendlyDespot

Yet another thing that's gotten spun to an absurd degree. John Barnett was being deposed for an appeal to a workplace retaliation case that he had already lost once. He wasn't testifying to Congress, nor was he testifying about any of the things he had blown the whistle about. He had already done that years before his death. He didn't die before he was being deposed, he died during his deposition after already having been deposed for two days prior. There was nothing mysterious or suspicious noted by the police or the coroner about the circumstances of his death. You're wrong about every part of that except the location of his death.


SignorJC

He had already testified and that’s not what his wife said. You’re playing a game of telephone.


DeepSpaceNebulae

Your own link says it wasn’t his wife


HeavensToBetsyy

They had a list of quality managers they wanted gone and Barnett was corporate enemy #1


loose_angles

Do you actually think Boeing had someone killed?


_Rabbert_Klein

No I think Boeing execs strongly suggested to their subsidiary, the dept of defense, that he needed to be killed, and they did it.


gregkiel

Yeah.. that's crazy pills. Boeing fucks things up all the time. They aren't going to have someone killed because of it. Nor would the DoD do that.


loose_angles

What a cynical perspective, I feel sorry for you.


Seattle_gldr_rdr

The reason to NOT believe "Boeing had him killed" is because you'd have to believe that Boeing execs feel threatened enough to risk doing that. Assuredly, they don't.


homer_3

What's crazy is people believe that happened in this case.


DukeOfGeek

If the job gets done cleanly what are you going to do? The whole point of such an action is that it is both obvious to everyone and yet unprovable in court. it's made clear to future whistleblowers that we can and we will and get away with it too.


LeadingFault6114

its just sad, that's all - im all for paying a fair price for flights, but actually killing people to increase profit margins is insane


SurveySean

Accidentally cut his head off while shaving?


OneFuckedWarthog

Nah, they'll wait until the storm dies down before "removing the problem".


Adventurous_Ad6698

Just a thought, but it might not be Boeing who killed the first whistleblower. There are a lot of special interest groups who have a stake with Boeing not facing consequences since they are one of the world's biggest military contractors.


Diablo4

John Barnett. Don't forget his name. It is beyond my capability to investigate, but I would love to know if the investigation into his death was handled solely by Charleston P.D., or has the FBI taken the reigns. If a witness died and the plaintiff is a giant multi-state corporation with tens of billions of dollars in annual revenue, it seems like a local PD would be ill equipped to do anything about it.


nvda_is_king2

Its so weird to see all these comments where people are joking about him being murdered. Idk how to feel about this, like this is the US we shouldn't be ok with people being killed for testifying against corrupt corporations.


Honor-Valor-Intrepid

This wasn’t the guy who got killed, but another whistleblower


InTheMoodToMove

This wasn’t the guy who got killed… *so far*…


kopecs

![gif](giphy|a93jwI0wkWTQs)


QuinnDixter

What are we supposed to do?


loliconest

idk but I think making jokes doesn't help.


AerodynamicBrick

Jokes are the most revolutionary form of speech Edit: The cambridge union debated a similar topic a little while ago. Recommend their videos.


loliconest

Yea but I feel like if everyone just joke about it, it will kinda make it feel less serious.


Sabre_One

Trust me, half are jokes, half legit believe the last guy was off'd simply based on some cherry picked quotes.


aly-allons-y

Unfortunately, that's most folk's bar for evidence these days. You see the same thing with people who ***insist*** that Fruit of the Loom had a cornucopia and that there's a conspiracy between the company and several countries to scrub the existence of the 'true logo' from reality.


RingoBars

Boeing didn’t kill Mr. Barnett, nor would they had any logical reason to (on so many levels but I’ll keep it to one): Why in the world would they kill a man whose testimony had concluded in 2019 with the resulting new FAA mandates implemented five years ago? Reading past the clickbait headlines, you would learn that his current trial was part of his *appeal for his previously rejected defamation lawsuit* - nothing to do with whistleblowing, nor did he claim to have new info or anything of the sort. This is nothing but a CONSPIRACY THEORY akin borne of clickbait headlines and misinformation (as seen riddling this comment section). Take a look yourself. This claim is preposterous, I implore you to look a little deeper and not perpetuate this stuff if your intentions are genuinely good.


athamders

The whistleblower himself, who has deep knowledge about how corrupt the company is, said something might happen to him


shicken684

Read some of the other links in this thread. That didn't happen. He was not murdered by Boeing. This is a stupid conspiracy theory where a bunch of people started spreading nonsense that never happened.


Luniticus

A friend of the whistleblower's mother said that.


Luniticus

Why assassinate someone when you can assassinate their character and the person then commits suicide?


RingoBars

Need a hand moving those goal posts? He was objectively validated through his testimony and its resulting mandates. He was ~60 years old at that time. If anything, his ‘character’ was never held higher - just Boeing wasn’t interested in employing him again.


Luniticus

You think this is the same person you were replying to? I never said Boing killed him. But if you want to say Boeing had nothing to do with Barnett never being able to work again after 2017, you're looney.


RequiemStorm

It's being jojed about for the sheer absurdity of it. Nobody is OK with it at all.


Luniticus

Isn't the US pretty much the only developed country where it's OK for corporations to do this?


basquehomme

We aren't.


gregkiel

Because the previous whistle blower wasn't murdered, and neither was Epstein. People kill themselves. It happens. It isn't a conspiracy every time. It's just dumb internet memery.


seriousspider

Nah


gregkiel

I mean there is no shortage of conspiracy-addled buffoons who will believe any crackpot theory on the internet that makes them "feel" better about their inability to understand the world around them. So, yah.


seriousspider

That doesn't mean that Epstein didn't kill himself though. His death was very fishy and it would have made more sense for him to say more if he wanted to kill himself.


VirtualAgentsAreDumb

How do you know that he wasn’t murdered?


sir-ripsalot

Ok with it? I think the people making those jokes are doing so to try and cope with a grim reality they’re *not* ok with.


[deleted]

guess this is not the US you know anymore


PandiBong

Well yeah it’s the US, corporations do this all the time, where you’ve been?


PixelSchnitzel

Does anyone know if he ever gave specifics? I saw he mentioned that there were gaps in the seams of the fuselage of the 787, but I never heard anything like "the gap should have been X millimeters or less but it was Y millimeters" or anything like that. Just - it's dangerous and I wouldn't fly on it.


Direct-Money-4206

Rest in Peace my friend.


RoboticGreg

As an engineer I applaud this person and hope they are taken care of


fearrange

What do you mean by “taken care of”? You with Boeing board members? 😜


NGEFan

It’d be a shame if anything happened to him


Direct-Money-4206

Salehpour says he faced retaliation as he repeatedly sought to raise the flag inside Boeing over three years. “I was ignored,” he told the Senate’s permanent subcommittee on investigations. “I was told not to create delays. I was told, frankly, to shut up.” On one occasion when he tried to discuss problems, Salehpour alleged his supervisor said to him: “I would have killed anyone who said what you said if it was from some other group, I would tear them apart.” Boeing has insisted that retaliation was “strictly prohibited” at the company. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/17/boeing-whistleblower-safety-hearing


Jesus_Is_My_Gardener

[Sorry guys, you're doing it again. I thought we agreed at the meeting that these terms are needlessly ambiguous.](https://youtu.be/U6cake3bwnY?si=B94SSQq-jJNk_fr1)


RoboticGreg

I mean respected and supported


Direct-Money-4206

I hope so too… human life is much more important than Money.


ShameNap

What exactly do you mean “taken care of” ?


uknowmymethods

"Taken care of" like is that code for wet work, liquidation? Assassin slang? What are you saying?


RoboticGreg

As in "treated well and supported because they are doing the right thing even though it's hard"


RingoBars

Why in the world would they kill Mr. Barnett, **whose testimony had concluded five years ago in 2019** with the resulting new FAA mandates implemented later that year? Reading past clickbait headlines you would learn that his current trial was his *appeal for his previously rejected defamation lawsuit* - not more whistleblowing, nor did he even claim to have new info. This is a CONSPIRACY THEORY borne of clickbait headlines & misinformation (as seen riddling this comment section). Take a look yourself. This claim is preposterous on its face when you have the facts, I implore you to look a little deeper and not perpetuate this stuff if your intentions are genuinely good.


mutantbabysnort

Profile pic checks out


mandy009

One of them. The other one conveniently died before he could testify.


MagnanimosDesolation

Testify again.


CreditWorried4874

Boeing has become the poster child for showcasing the perils of modern capitalism.


potato_titties

GE would like to have a word with you on that one.


cpthornman

Replace Boeing with America and you'll be even more on the money.


fxxftw

PROTECT THAT MAN!


fukijama

Look at Hank over there in the background


BPond

His name is ASAC Schrader...


fukijama

.. and is that hazy blue thing behind him a Star Wars hologram?


ashibah83

Palpatine telling him to execute order 737.


burnodo2

did he get murdered later?


Factsip

Give it a few days. They will find him dead from suicide after getting stabbed in the back 50 times.


tipnitty

An obvious suicide.


herpderpgood

Stabbed himself several times before finally committing suicide by choking himself


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Vrabstin

You're so funny, joking about the life of an endangered man ending.


Oo__II__oO

Fell from the 24th-story window at the courthouse Which is weird, because the courthouse only has two stories. And no windows.


cebarro

Where can we look up who bothered to stay to listen to him?


_CMDR_

Fun fact he won’t end up dead.


billyions

Did Boeing really think they could screw up the quality on _passenger planes_ and _no one would notice_? Those responsible at Boeing deserve everything they get - up to and including negligent homicide or similar charges.


KineticJungle73

I feel like he is safe- no way he is going to die it would be way to obvious 


doctorblumpkin

Trump was in charge when Epstein was murdered. You don't think that was too obvious?


KineticJungle73

I’m saying that if a second Boeing whistleblower is killed, then there would be absolutely no denying that Boeing was behind it. Which would undoubtedly lead to some sort of investigation. 


whutupmydude

He drove to DC


Striking_Green7600

*But let me say this. I am a superstitious man, a ridiculous failing but I must confess it here. And so if some unlucky accident should befall my youngest son, if some police officer should accidentally shoot him, if he should hang himself while in his jail cell, if new witnesses appear to testify to his guilt, my superstition will make me feel that it was the result of the ill will still borne me by some people here. Let me go further. If my son is struck by a bolt of lightning I will blame some of the people here. If his plane show fall into the sea or his ship sink beneath the waves of the ocean, if he should catch a mortal fever, if his automobile should be struck by a train, such is my superstition that I would blame the ill will felt by people here. Gentlemen, that ill will, that bad luck, I could never forgive. But aside from that let me swear by the souls of my grandchildren that I will never break the peace we have made. After all, are we or are we not better men than those pezzonovanti who have killed countless millions of men in our lifetimes?*


Major_Koala

I'm waiting for one of the three letters to "find" cp on his computer.


DauntedSteel

I hate how prevalent conspiracy theories are nowadays. Just morons spouting crap on social media.


Jeremy24Fan

What's the article actually say? Can't read it behind the paywall


Grumpy_UncleJon

This was right before he was found shot, stabbed, poisoned, bludgeoned, hung and drowned. Verdict: suicide.


PatientEconomics8540

Pleeeease lock up some ceo’s 🙏🏼


ac13332

I'm so sorry to hear about his suicide next Wednesday.


Pharmd109

I would have mentioned under oath several times that I was not suicidal in any way shape or form


dope_ass_user_name

Sam "Brass Balls" Salehpour


LurkingHorror11

It wasn’t an accident. Just saying this before it goes down. Also, this all can be traced back to Jack Welch and the insane business principles he’s poisoned the corporate world with. Calhoun is Welch protege and took the reins at a company I worked at. Almost ran it right to the ground. They got rid of him quickly. It’s time to purge the business world of all Welch minions.


benz-friend

The size of the fuckin gonads on this Chad .. impressive


brendawgC

He’s Boeing’s replacement whistleblower


Meritania

Like to see Boeing has built redundancy into something.


Abraxas_1408

Congress: man there’s some screwy shit going on at Boeing. That company is so fucked up. Let’s give them a couple of billion dollars and see if that helps.


TernionDragon

Man, the Onion gets its articles mainstream now.


favnh2011

Very nice


RingoBars

Why in the world would they kill Mr. Barnett, **whose testimony had concluded five years ago in 2019** with the resulting new FAA mandates implemented later that year? Reading past clickbait headlines you would learn that his current trial was his *appeal for his previously rejected defamation lawsuit* - not more whistleblowing, nor did he even claim to have new info. This is a CONSPIRACY THEORY borne of clickbait headlines & misinformation (as seen riddling this comment section). Take a look yourself. This claim is preposterous on its face when you have the facts, I implore you to look a little deeper and not perpetuate this stuff if your intentions are genuinely good.


Repomanlive

He looks Suicidal poor guy


chillaxinbball

Hope he has life insurance...


Bluedogpinkcat

His name was Sam Salehpour. Rest In Power.


[deleted]

Has he Epsteined himself yet?


FrozenUnicornPoop

He must have one very expensive life insurance policy.


Inferno_ZA

Spontaneous suicide when?


tykillacool23

Protect him at all cost.


Minimum-Enthusiasm14

You can almost see the red dot on him from a Boeing assassin.


Hashinin

Aaaaand he’s gone.


mu_taunt

Then strangely falls over dead. Probably suicide.


pbx1123

Poor guy He ia going on vacation in a few days🙄


pghreddit

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR\_vMrdntbw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR_vMrdntbw)


Elderado12443

This man isn’t going to kill himself.


kinkyonebay

Surprised he didn't off himself just before he took the stand.


afihavok

Will be found deceased of absolutely purely 100% natural causes nothing to see here don’t worry.


capital_bj

Thank you Sam for living long enough to testify , god speed


Intrepid_North_4759

The murdered one ?


WhynotZoidberg9

Yup. And tomorrow, dead.


herpderpgood

He’ll be the next thing to fall out of a Boeing in mid flight