I worked on the space program for a few years.
Massive fraud that was carried out with an audacity that would make Boss Hogg blush. When I initially complained, my boss told me that NASA was "a middle class welfare program" and that I shouldn't take it so seriously.
Eventually, I reached a point where I just couldn't sign off on purchasing equipment for testing an item that simply didn't exist. I was working 60 hours a week for low pay doing the work that had been reported to have been done years beforehand and just couldn't do it any more.
After taking two systems from months/years behind schedule to months ahead, I was fired. No discussion, no debate, no warnings, no notifications.
They lied to the Texas Workforce commission and said that I was warned and got caught. TWC refused to do anything about it.
NASA inspector general found that everything that I said was true, but that me being fired was not something they would handle.
There is no wrongful termination in Texas.
A decade later, the project(s) I was working on at the time was finally moved from the contractor to government funded equipment - meaning the government was going to have to do what the contractors were originally paid to do.
No one cares.
Massive fraud that was carried out with an audacity that would make Boss Hogg blush. When I initially complained, my boss told me that NASA was "a middle class welfare program" and that I shouldn't take it so seriously.
Eventually, I reached a point where I just couldn't sign off on purchasing equipment for testing an item that simply didn't exist. I was working 60 hours a week for low pay doing the work that had been reported to have been done years beforehand and just couldn't do it any more.
After taking two systems from months/years behind schedule to months ahead, I was fired. No discussion, no debate, no warnings, no notifications.
They lied to the Texas Workforce commission and said that I was warned and got caught. TWC refused to do anything about it.
NASA inspector general found that everything that I said was true, but that me being fired was not something they would handle.
There is no wrongful termination in Texas.
A decade later, the project(s) I was working on at the time was finally moved from the contractor to government funded equipment - meaning the government was going to have to do what the contractors were originally paid to do.
No one cares.