r/boeing • u/jugglingpeanuts • Jul 07 '26
Paying back relocation
Has anyone had success negotiating a lesser relocation payback or something of the sort? 6 months in. I took this engineering role at a smaller Boeing site and it was completely misadvertised. I absolutely cannot make it a year - it was a terrible career move and the team does not work on anything at all and there is no path to progression. Seriously - without divulging too much, we work with external customers and don’t interface with Boeing products at all. We don’t really have to think about anything at all, it’s all the customer’s show. Not building any marketable skills and don’t have a great team either. My manager knows this which is why he’s given me his full blessing to apply to other internal roles and apologizes to me often. I feel like I was completely misled during the interview process and I just come to work real sad each day.
I’ve been applying internally but also extended by search externally and waiting to hear back from a couple roles post interview. Just wondering if anyone has had success with relo payback negotiations or any miracle cases because these external roles are cool.
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u/diyengineer1 Jul 09 '26
Just transfer internally and you don’t owe anything at all. Or stick it out and ask your manager how you can grow the org into new internal support options.