yikes...everyone in my building getting laid off...

[PITTM]

im working as an intern to a center director of NASA and i just found out that we're having a meeting in 90 minutes in which he will tell everyone(about 200 employees) theyre getting laid off. this doesnt really affect me since friday was already my last day anyways(im just a summer intern). but still, this sucks, my office-mate sitting right behind me is not going to have a job in 90 minutes and none of them see it coming. i guess theres no real question here, but im pretty bummed for all the people i work with.

rj

Why the layoffs?

[Sponger15SB]

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Why the layoffs?

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Someone finally realized how much money NASA wastes

[PITTM]

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[touchfaith]

Where is NASA down there? At the college or up on Empire Grade in Lockheed's old buildings?

[jason_t]

Tell them there is a ton of money to be made in the Party 3/6 6m and 5/10 6m tables. And tell me their names.

[jason_t]

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Why the layoffs?

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NASA sucks at budget management.

[PITTM]

well, that plus congress has almost completely cut the aeronautics programs budget entirely.

rj

[PITTM]

i communte to mountain view to the ames research center at moffet...

rj

[Sponger15SB]

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lol, wow I thought you were going to be offended by this.

btw, that sucks man. it doesn't effect you as far as having a job, but i'd feel pretty crappy if everyone i knew was getting fired.

[mslif]

This is sad /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[touchfaith]

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i communte to mountain view to the ames research center at moffet...

rj

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Aww, I C. I could get on my roof and hit your building with a rock. Well...if I had a rock.

[pokerdirty]

Looks like a coin flip to me.

I almost feel bad because these people are going to lose their jobs. But then I realize that this is going to save me $$$ in the long run.

[PITTM]

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lol, wow I thought you were going to be offended by this.

btw, that sucks man. it doesn't effect you as far as having a job, but i'd feel pretty crappy if everyone i knew was getting fired.

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im not offended in the slightest, one of my best friends and i are both interning here and its really opened our eyes to what a gigantic waste of money it is. its generally lazy researchers who get here at 10, leave at 4 and complain about being underpaid while dumping any actual work they might ever have to do on me or another intern and then sitting around and talking to each other about how poor their working conditions are. and somehow i randomly got the nicest office in the building by far, weird.

rj

[PITTM]

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Aww, I C. I could get on my roof and hit your building with a rock. Well...if I had a rock.

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building N262, throw away.

rj

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building N262, throw away.

rj

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Nawww, with my luck it would throw my golf swing out of wack.

So that's not the cube right? I hear they are getting the boot soon too. I was actually down at Yahoo! on 1st ave. last week for an appointment...they had valet parking. There is waste for ya' /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[tek]

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Someone finally realized how much money NASA wastes

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It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[PITTM]

i dont know what "the cube" is, so probably not.

rj

[pokerdirty]

Why would you lay people off at 5PM on a Monday?

[PITTM]

theyre getting the required notice today. i dont know how much time they get, but its not long.

rj

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i dont know what "the cube" is, so probably not.

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Aww, just looked it up, it's still Air Force. I thought NASA had taken it over for some reason...

http://www.slack.com/Travel/asvaro1/images/dscn1016.jpg

Surprised you hadn't heard of it though...

The Blue Cube (pdf). (http://www.losangeles.af.mil/SMC/HO/9%20chapter%20vi%20air%20force%20satellite%20contr ol%20network.pdf#search='air%20force%20blue%20cube ')

[Eurotrash]

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Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.


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[pokerjoker]

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Why the layoffs?

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Posting 2+2 on the job?

[pokerdirty]

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Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.


http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/7725/bobs2gs.jpg

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now THAT'S what i was looking for!

[PITTM]

just overheard in the hallway: "i dont imagine the meeting means anything, theyre probably just going to tell us they dont know what their funding status is like"...these people are just gonna walk into a beartrap, lame. see you guys after the meeting.

rj

[Felipe]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm bouncing boobies................

[ddollevoet]

How did you find out before everyone else?

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How did you find out before everyone else?

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re-read his post...

[theben]

blows

[BradleyT]

So Patrick is out of a job?

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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So Patrick is out of a job?

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No.

[PITTM]

just got out of the meeting. my building is dead quiet, everyone was just in shock, that was brutal. and i knew in advance because my boss told me, since im his intern. it sounds like congress approved nasa's budget for 2006 and then when the nasa administrators got it they changed it to fund their own programs or their own salaries more and cut many nasa workers out of it themselves, which would be hideously illegal. i assume congress will be notified, whether they take action or not is a different story. and whos patrick? i doubt hes out of a job, only a few hundred contracted employees(not civil servants) were fired.

rj

[Rockatansky]

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NASA doesn't benefit the rich rightnowthisinstant, so it's expendable. Plus, we have to make sure there's enough money in the fisc for Haliburton to steal during the rebuilding of New Orleans.

[B Dids]

I keep reading this as "Everyone in my building getting laid" and think "sweet!!".

Then I feel like an [censored].