JPL Workforce Update - NASA
www.nasa.gov
Workforce statement and memo to employees.
  1. I am directing most employees to work from home tomorrow, Wednesday, February 7, so everyone can be in a safe, comfortable environment on a stressful day. Most individuals will not be able to enter the Lab during this mandatory remote work day. A Lab access list has been created and those who will have access will be notified by email shortly. If you do not receive an email instructing you to be on Lab, please plan to work remotely, regardless of your telework agreement status. In addition, and to ensure we have everyone’s accurate contact information, I am also asking everyone to please review and update your personal email and phone number in Workday today.

I don't think I've ever seen a company or organization that had mandatory remote work day outside of really crazy weather during the peak of Covid. Perhaps it's to protect the equipment from distraught or disgruntled employees?

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    5 months ago

    So, hows privatizing the space sector going for you, America? Made any amazing scientific leaps lately?

    mass layoffs and piss-leaking tourist shuttles.

    yea

    (This is not me shitting on the amazing accomplishments of NASA scientists, but rather the gutting and selling off of NASA to the private sector and making their scientists jobs way harder than they need to be.)

    • FishLake@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      Uhhhh didn’t you hear that we’re definitely going back to the moon and have a space telescope all to our own and it’s no one else’s named after a homophobe?

    • impartial_fanboy [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      So, hows privatizing the space sector going for you, America?

      Well JPL has always been this way but go off. This is essentially punishment for their (mis)handling of the Psyche mission and other recent bureaucratic fuck ups. Obviously since those who did the fucking up are in charge of budget allocation, the workers take the brunt of it but its not as gloom and doom as it seems.

      Really they should just cancel SLS and nationalize SpaceX but Elon would have to do something unforgivable for them to actually do it.

      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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        5 months ago

        You mean like blocking Ukraine from using its satellites when Putin tells him to?

        They should’ve seized it the next day.