{"quotes":[{"text":"The upper management team had informed me that an employee that worked for me was a poor performer and would be terminated soon. This employee was clearly displaying mental health issues that were causing problems in the workplace. When I followed the company procedures and reported this to human resources, their response was to inform me that my contract would not be renewed and I would be immediately fired if anyone complained about me. This was my introduction to how mental health issues are handled in the USA.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["causing","clearly","company","complained","contract","employee","fired","handled","health","human","immediately","inform","informed","introduction","issues","management","mental","performer","poor","problems","procedures","renewed","reported","resources","response","soon","team","terminated","upper","usa","worked","workplace"],"id":68276,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["crime","enforce","enforcement","enforcing","enforcing-laws","formally","high","law","laws","legal-system","low","not","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-procedural","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","rate","report","reported","reporting","reports","result","results","results","statistical-analysis","statistics","statistics"],"id":72560,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"The biggest surprise that I had during my time in high altitude astronomy was being prevented from arranging a free Occupational Safety \u0026 Health Administration (OSHA) onsite evaluation to assist with bringing the observatory into OSHA compliance by the upper management team that I reported to.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["administration","altitude","arranging","assist","astronomy","biggest","compliance","evaluation","free","health","high","management","observatory","occupational","onsite","osha","prevented","reported","safety","surprise","team","upper"],"id":399449,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"As a manager, I was able to put the USA workplace mental health system to the test. In each of three separate companies there was an employee that was displaying mental health issues and I reported this to the human resources department. The outcome: I was terminated every time. The conclusion: Reporting mental health issues in USA employees will lose you your job!","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["companies","conclusion","department","displaying","each","employee","employees","every","health","human","issues","job","lose","manager","mental","outcome","reported","reporting","resources","separate","system","terminated","test","time","usa","workplace"],"id":410684,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Ex ‘Fleet man?”“He was a full Commander, last I heard, sir.”“Interesting.” Falconer commented. “Get me his specs. If I have to take him aboard my ship, I want to know all about him.” She swallowed. “Yes sir.”Falconer returned his attention to Nordyke.“What’s their location?”“They’re about a week outside the Hermes system, Captain.”“Helm, set a course – best possible speed!”“Um – sir, we’re on conversion drive at the moment.” The helmsman reported.“I know, Linson – d’you think I’m senile?”“No, sir – I…” The young helmsman stammered.“I did say ‘best possible speed’, didn’t I?”“Yes, sir.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["aboard","captain","commander","commented","course","ex","falconer","get","he","heard","helm","helmsman","hermes","him","i","interesting","linson","location","man","me","moment","my-ship","no","nordyke","possible","reported","senile","she-swallowed","sir","specs","speed","stammered","the","they-re","to","um","whats","yes"],"id":425117,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}