The notebook belonging to Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, found at the scene of his death.
ImageNoticed that. Very displeasing.
i'd 'officially release' something like this if i wanted it as minimally analyzed as possible, and thus 'hidden' in plain sight..
upon analyzing the notes right-side up, i have concluded it was, after all, mere irksome internet incompetence.
Thanks for the expert analysis, Encyclopedia Brown
Can't believe nobody's edited it so it's right side up yet so I fixed it real quick.
I can't believe browsers don't have a basic function to rotate an image in 2024
That's where RES comes in: https://i.imgur.com/xkXGfsN.png
but yeah should be native
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old reddit with RES does.
Perhaps OP works for Boeing quality control.
If he did he would have died himself by now with a case of the 'whistleblowers'
Yes I looked very stupid just now trying to turn my phone and head to read it only to have the orientation auto adjust repeatedly. 😂
Anyone else had to flip their laptop 2x to read this damn thing?
Had to flip my laptop 3x here, and I'm even reading it on my phone
house of leaves ass suicide note
Interesting to find out that the Boeing whistleblower was fucking Johnny Truant
Whistle is derived from the word hwistlian, an olde English word meaning "to whistle."
To represent the sound of whistling, we'll use the symbol §...
I said “hwistling” like Stewie Griffin says “Coolhwip” and now that’s how it’s pronounced for me.
That's just fine with Hank Hill, I tell you hwat.
for more on that we go our correspondent in the field: a full chapter of footnotes
Take it away a full chapter of footnotes:
This is where we find out that he actually wrote an academic study about a company that doesn't exist about a plane that's infinitely-larger on the inside and he's also blind.
These House of Leaves references made my week.
follow the footnote of the footnote of the footnote to find out more.
David Foster Wallace: clears throat
no, not you!
All its missing is the obscure footnote within a fake footnote, that brings you to a document that requires a mirror and knowledge of an inside joke your brother wrote 20 years ago.
He lost it when the Boeing doors blew out and it was just another, impossibly longer Boeing on the other side
Minotaur
Was not on my bingo card.
I had to flip my bingo card 3x to read this on my laptop
Amateurs. I flew to Australia and then dug a tunnel to China and all was perfectly readable.
*Ends up in Japan.
*Reads it Right to Left.
Muahahahah!
Pfft, you had it easy.
I had naught but a gardening spade and two boxes of hotel matches for which to build a rocket with a handle to hold on for dear life so I could see it in the free orientation of space.
I got fed up flipping the phone around, and so I just placed it on the round table in my house and adjusted my reading view as needed. Required walking in circles. Back and forth around the table. Anyway. No one saw me. So that's the good thing.
I hope you walked around the table with your hands clasped behind your back like you were solving a mystery.
Wait until you hear about Lazy Susan technology.
Lazy is really an insulting label. Why not Efficient Susan? Why not Makes-the-best-use-of-limited-space Susan?
I first had to lock the screen rotation on my phone and then flip it 3x
Flip it. Flip it real good.
When a problem comes along, you must flip it.
Before the cream sits out too long, you must flip it.
Flip it good.
I haven't been on reddit on a computer in years, but was flipping my phone for sure.
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If you're on desktop, you should be using Reddit Enhancement Suite, and clicking the rotate image buttons it adds.
Good old RES has image rotation controls (& more).
I just hit the rotate buttons on the image, it seemed easier than rotating my desktop monitors.
Well thank god he clarified he wasn’t high when I wrote this.
…he wasn’t high when *I** wrote this.*
Found the Boeing assassin
I thought this was an afroman quote riff
I went and blew the whistle, I didn't get high
I'm gonna expose 'em all, but didn't get high
Now I'm dead and I don't why (why man?)
But I didn't get high
I didn't get high
I didn't get high
I was going to whistle blow
and then I got high...
Did you really think the "Agent 47" wasn't a reference to the 7-47?
Mind blown.
Door blown
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2 pills I pop makes my pupils swell up like 2 pennies, I’m Clint Eastwood in his mid twenties
A young ass man with a trashcan strapped to the back of his ass so the rats can't chew through his last pants
I light a candle and place it up on a mantle, Grab a knife by the blade and stab you with the fuckin handle lol
old em, love it
He was thizzin when he wrote this, so forgive him if it goes astray.
"I'm not high" - things I used to say when I was high...
Well, I'm convinced... REALLY!!
dang but i probably was when he wrote that
He complains a lot about whistleblower protection, and he's right.
Whistleblower protection does not do enough to protect people. For example, my mom was a nurse at a facility where they were breaking some serious laws.
She did the right thing and expressed concerns to management and letting them know that regulations aren't being followed. She was fired 30 minutes later.
She took it to a lawyer, and the lawyer said that whistleblower protection only protects you if you file a complaint to the government prior to being fired. So, by firing her as soon as she spoke up to management, they were able to fire her before she filed a complaint, and she didn't qualify for Whistleblower protection. It seems like a very obvious way to silence whistleblowers.
Looked up the Whistleblower protection, which extends from OSHA safety laws because it's a private health company:
No person shall discharge or in any manner discriminate against any employee because such employee has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or related to this Act or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding or because of the exercise by such employee on behalf of himself or others of any right afforded by this Act.
youre not whistleblowing if you whistleblow to the org youre whistleblowing against.... youre just internally complaining
It's a ridiculous system because as the other comment mentioned, the first step should be internal. "Hey bosses boss, there's an issue with my boss" should be expected and welcome if it's a genuine problem.
And realistically a non corrupt company should want that, so they can investigate and fix the problem before the media blitz and costly PR drain (not to mention the government investigations if it's that bad). But instead, they can just fire you and and most likely the story isn't going to be the one that gets major attention.
They hedge their bets on the limited capacity of public outrage and pressure and most of the time they're going to be right.
At my job of 7 years which i just recently left, after they announced our production facility was moving to Germany in September, i had to went to HR with an issue ONE time. I prefaced my complaint by saying i wanted to ensure this was confidential since i do not feel comfortable going to my direct supervisor about it as she was the subject of the complaint. I received my confirmation, and the HR lady who i knew VERY well from working together so many years assured me it was all priveledged. It wasnt until after i finished my end of the conversation she said to me "I appreciate you bringing this to me but i am sure there is a valid reason for her to make that decision. That doesnt sound like her. I also want to make sure you know i HAVE to tell her you came to me with this" to which i responded "uhh, thats not cool." and was met with a "Well, she should know how you feel, and there isnt enough there to start an investigation so its best to handle it between us three and settle it"
She brought it to her, and she approached me about it as if i "betrayed her". Ill never goto HR again without being anonymous
HR's job is to protect the Company from the Human Resources.
HR has never done a goddamned thing for me.
It's a ridiculous system because as the other comment mentioned, the first step should be internal.
Its not an accident, its a deliberate catch-22. This way if you notify the government first, the company can say "you could have handled this internally first, since you did not, it proves you acted in malice."
That might work on a jury, because juries are a crapshot, but it will definitely work in the court of public opinion where the company's PR agents can flood the zone with that accusation while the whistleblower can't even afford a PR agent.
I mean the first step should be going to the employer first to resolve things before getting the government involved. When people are fired for trying to fix things internally is when the system is broke the worst.
With the advice of a lawyer, sure. If you whistleblow on your own, starting with an internal complaint, you may as well just quit.
In Australia we have unfair dismissal laws for reasons like this. Labor rights are important
If things get to the point that you need to say something, it's not an accident. They're doing it intentionally and logically will try and silence you if you make a peep.
Always fuck your employer over given the chance
That very naive way of thinking is why you have completely brain dead laws which don't protect people. Even the tiniest of slivers of imagination foresees this exact scenario.
So this is why management wants us to go through the company chain of command for issues
I was a Washington whistleblower. I was doing PR and webmaster for a scuba company. They were dumping lead into the drain(Lewis county) and public water. (Thurston county) What followed was my employer stalked me and my coworker. Even going as far as showing up at our homes. The best the city of Chehalis(Lewis county) could do was expedite my gun license and help with a restraining order. None of that would prevent the man from killing us if he wanted to. He violated the no contact order multiple times. Thurston county is useless.
This is sad no doubt and happening ever more frequently.
I"m following the case of David McBride vs Australia. Bloke blew the whistle on now confirmed war crimes in Afghanistan by SAS soldiers. Got sentenced to just short of 6 years due to a clause in the national security framework.
Oh, and the known perpetrator's of the war crimes? Yet to receive any jail time.
And the crazy part is he supported the candidate who is by far more likely to make whistleblower protections worse.
It depends on the jurisdiction you are in. Many states have laws or caselaw that provide protection to employees who raise issues with their employers. If you think you've been terminated for whistleblowing call a lawyer and don't trust reddit.
As a Canadian that spent some years working for Silicon Valley companies… at will employment is still so fucking bonkers to me.
The best thing about it is that like 90% of Americans don't even understand what it means. The number of people that i have encountered who THINK there is a long list of rules for firing them is staggering. People think they have a hundred times the protections that they actually have. And yet, the continue to vote for the people that take away what little they do have.
Boeing probably just killed him the regular way; by making his life hell and dragging him through every court they could while constantly threatening him through high-paid lawyers.
Honestly does seem more realistic.
I can’t fault Reddit for being skeptical, it doesn’t hurt if it’s done reasonably. But so many are just straight up conspiracy theorists, treating various conspiracies as if they are proven facts. There’s tons of people on this very post doing that.
I think so many people would prefer it be assassins because that's very clearly illegal and actionable but, at the end of the day, most corporations are just going to outspend you until you cave. It's just easier that way.
People underestimate how rough court is on people too. It’s hours of sitting there being questioned about everything, whether it matters to the case or not. Over and over and over. They will do anything to drag you through the mud, your family through the mud, you work through the mud, anything..
I have to testify about crime scenes I process. Sometimes, I wonder if the defense is trying to gaslight me into believing I wasn't actually there given the questioning. And I'm only testifying about what I saw or found, I'm not testifying about people or complex systems.
And it’s YEARS for these people. It would drive the most stable person to being crazy.
And some people can't comprehend the stress and anxiety that comes along with being a whistle blower. Everyone likes to think they'll do the moral thing at the right time, but often reality is messy and there are lots of conflicting forces that can push people to not want to be alive anymore.
Giving agency to some of the conflicting forces can help people not have to put themselves in a place to empathize with someone going through that.
its cause society doesn't give a fuck, humans are trogladytes at best.
Yeah I agree, as bad as Boeing seem to be in this case, the simplest explanation is normally the right one. This comment here just makes so much more sense than Boeing performing some elaborate murder fake suicide situation.
That still doesn't make them any less accountable.
EDIT: As others have pointed out, my wording around them being "any less accountable" is a bit off. Its not really what I was trying to go for. What I should have said was: "That doesn't make them unaccountable".
Obviously straight up murder is worse from a legal standpoint than a long drawn out push towards suicide. Morally, I guess its debatable, but that's not what my comment was trying to focus on.
Exactly this. It doesn’t have to be some conspiracy theory to be terrifying. The reality of what most likely happened here should already concern everyone. But while we all run around like chickens with our heads cut off trying to connect dots that don’t exist, we are ignoring, and therefore ENABLING these evil practices to continue right in front of us.
The text is written in 3 orientations, yet OP posted it in the only way that none of the writing is upright
takes real talent
Imagine getting ready to off yourself and writing down a presidential candidates name in your suicide note. Like this has nothing to do what candidate it even is just the though that would even be on your mind is bonkers
“Goodbye, mom. Goodbye, dad. I love you. This is not your fault. Dukakis ‘88”
Im laughing harder than I should be 🤣
I noticed too. It seems so random amongst the whole note. Not that the note is any less random
Ehh not really. A bunch of anti-establishment content throughout.
The weirder thing is that this guy who clearly understood the importance of regulation in industry was apparently all-in on the hardcore deregulation guy.
Have you met many hardcore deregulation guys? They aren’t exactly known for consistent opinions.
Nothing says "anti-establishment" like simping for a nepotist multi-millonaire business magnate who's backed by almost everyone in the republican party...
Also, rapist
The idea that The Diaper Lord can be considered anti-establishment to people who work jobs is absolutely mind boggling. Grabbembythepussy is literally a walking embodiment of corruption and nepotism. The American education cuts throughout the years have made the voter base even dumber than Mike Judge could have predicted. I'm not a fan of any politician btw. I feel like no matter who wins, we have a looong way to go before being able to call this country civilized.
I don't think we're ever getting back. The human species was not ready for the internet. Our brains aren't evolved enough, not even close. We actually kinda better hope AI does take over, because it might be our only hope lol. We sure as hell can't do it.
He's anti-the-establishment that came up with stuff like civil rights.
Why does he want to vote in the person who is the most unlikely to improve Whistleblower protections, and the most likely to deregulate the industry even more? Makes 0 sense.
He did deregulate the FAA. In 2017 he put boeing in control of the FAA
Leopards truly ate that day, my friend.
I'm so baffled this thread is all the way down here.
To be fair, trumpies are voting against most of their own interests anyway. This is just more of the same
They needed to fit their entire identity on a piece of paper.
The real problem here is the fact that who they're voting for as president is a part of their whole identity.
It's usually on the back of their vehicles too.
Being suicidal is very often paired with being significantly mentally unwell.
This just drives home the point that its essentially a cult at this point
Taking notes... how to make someone look crazy.
Censoring words like fuck in the journal of a dead whistleblower is pathetic.
No point in blurring offensive words, I went into this thinking I was reading a suicide note.
The internet is braindead now. One of these morons bleeped out ‘crime’ in a video a week ago.
I saw “terrorism” with the two r’s blurred out the other day. Made me want to ***** my own ***** in the back with a *******
Made me want to terrorise my own terrorism in the back with a terrorattack
they do it because the algorithms on social media platforms heavily surpress content with things like that in it. at least platforms like tiktok, instagram, etc. probably not reddit
Why was this released to the public?
To try and make him look like a nut bag
All it does is make me certain that a corporation drove this man to near insanity and suicide
Corporations should be able to get the death penalty. We end one corporation, the rest will start behaving a lot better.
If this hasn't been released, people were saying "wHaT ArE ThEy HiDINg"
Everyone loves a good conspiracy either way
True answer, it was always going to be released. The police mentioned the day he died they found this in his car with him, they just never showed it. Investigation bureaucracy/allowing the family to read it took time. Everyone is wanting to make this a conspiracy (even the people not likely to be conspiracy theorists) when in reality this guy got in over his head fighting Boeing and the courts took their toll. Meanwhile the other guy dies from an infection that can cause death and would be a toss up on if it actually did lead to death (basically the worst way if you wanted to make sure someone dies).
The other guy didn’t even work for Boeing. He worked for a company that sold parts to Boeing.
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Glad you’re still here 🥹❤️
Been there, but never wanted to write it all down. Making a traumatic moment, instead of a written message was my go to thought.
Glad to see your post and that you're doing better! Much love!
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glad youre better man, thats some scary shit.
I've written several over the years and one of them just contained lyrics from various songs, one of them was covered in red marker because I wanted it to look like blood, one was just full of "I will fall" repeated several times, it's wild
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I was really bad at killing myself so I have several of them that are all weird
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I must have at least 10 from when I was 11-16, it's kinda funny cause they're all written in a diary with hearts printed on the pages and a cover covered in rhinestones
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I'm not unfortunately but we ball
Crazy how my brain some days just decides things suck and feel pointless and I start to disassociate. My family and partner are supportive but sometimes I feel like they can’t truly fathom that it’s just like that. I don’t want to feel that way I just do. But I keep myself busy with hobbies and I try to be around those I care about and it makes life better. What really gives me a sense of calm is the beauty of earth and the universe. We have this one little speck that somehow contains everything we know and hold dear to us and it just keeps on with or without us. It’s a beautiful planet and the universe beyond is incredible and sometimes unimaginable. I like to look up at the moon and think about how we focus so much on trivial things but we’re all just floating by in our brief moment of consciousness. For whatever reason I just find peace in that.
I know life can be really shit. And with all the horrible people that unfortunately surround us. Even with that, you’re strong and beautiful. I’m happy you’re still with us, who ever you are.
From one stranger to another, take care of yourself and I wish the best for you :)
Seems very convenient for making him look crazy
Crazy? I was crazy once...
They put me in a room.
A rubber room
A rubber room with rats
News story. Coroner confirms self-inflicted gunshot and he is on CCTV footage up to a few minutes before shooting himself. No one approached him before his death.
EDIT: Just reading the rest, they matched ballistics to a gun in his hand that was registered to him, the note had his fingerprints all over it, he had documented history of anxiety and depression and his wife had recently died. We can just accept he killed himself and still hold Boeing accountable for their bad planes.
Lack of evidence? It's because my conspiracy is true!
Some evidence? The lack of more evidence is because my conspiracy is true!
Abundance of evidence? It's a plant/fake by evil bad man because he doesn't want you to know that my conspiracy is true!
People will still say something like the coroner wasn't accredited and the CCTV was deepfaked. You can't stop them believin'
Yeah or he did that things humans do CONSTANTLY- went crazy. His own brother has said he’s convinced without a doubt it was suicide..
Having to keep quiet about something that major will make you go crazy. I'm sure he was very conflicted for a while. It's hard knowing you're one of the few people who cares when you're surrounded by people who don't give a fuck.
He didn’t keep quiet. He had been writing about Boeing since 2017. He had left the company long before the max disaster. His whistle blowing was about the 787
All that whistle blowing will drive you crazy. Source: Boeing Institute of Psychiatry. CHECK MATE!
"Check mate" is what they say in Australia when they want you to bring them the bill.
It's actually pronounced ǝʇɐɯ ʞɔǝɥɔ
but also how people he likely worked with responded. Colelgaues, friends and such probably, out of fear or coercion or hate/distrust, dropped him and that was probably hard.
Lots of whistleblowers talk about the alienation from friends.
| Colelgaues
How you managed to misspell colleagues so badly but nothing else 🤔
A lot of whistleblowers are also conspiracy theorists and vice versa. It is common among those experiencing mental health decline. So correlated with losing friends.
I’m getting more of a dumb vibe
Did it ever occur to you that suicidal people aren’t exactly known For sound thinking?
Is that a trapper keeper?
Dawson Creek edition from the looks of it.
Wasn’t expecting to laugh in this thread, but here we are. Thank you!!
"Bury me face down so Boeing and their lying **** leaders can kiss my ass"
These are some LEGENDARY last words. (if these truly are his words....)
Kiss my ass Bobby Knight said it on senior day 1994 during his speech, slightly different wording
You expect me to actually believe that given all the other crazy shit around Boeing. Only thing I’m doing is shorting that stock
I am 100% sure their stock will be the best performing American wide-body aircraft manufacturer this year.
They’re backed by the government. I would avoid. I actually bought it up and it’s been growing.
Might as well get paid by evil if we’re going to collectively allow it to persist.
Yea shorting Boeing is the wrong move. They are borderline a monopoly on aircraft manufacturing that’s backed by the government…they won’t be going anywhere.
That reads like a Dr. Bronner’s bottle.
Fuck even in your suicide notes your stating your political choices...
Didn’t realize there were so many handwriting experts on Reddit
It's their weekend gig. They're aviation experts during the week.
They moonlight as armchair generals, then coast on by to their aviation jobs where they know every jet in the world, in depth. Guys got a lot of time on their hands!
The conspiracy theorists were actually all there that day and saw the assassination (but the ninjas were invisible) and they’ve personally seen the Epstein footage.
Amongvall this, he wants ppl to vote for someone who wants to de regulate even further.
A third Boeing whistle blower has the chance to do the funniest thing
Even missy eliot had to flip it and reverse it
without much context, this is incredibly sad. these seem like the ramblings of either a mad man, a desperate man, or a bit of both.
Well I'm convinced!
oh, are we on chapter 2 of the murder/suicide conspiracy now?
i see, we are going to frame him as a nutjob?
We get this relatively immediately, but not the Epstein list when shit hit the fan. Social engineering at its finest.
I’m not buying it
This is a damn suicide note, you don’t have to censor the word fuck. Fuck fuck fuck fuck. Why are you people so scared of that word?
Asks for America to come together.
Supports the most divisive president in history for 2024.
Fuck me, he's sucking trumps nuts right before he commits suicide... Not a cult my ass...
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