{"quotes":[{"text":"He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.","author":"Elbert Hubbard","tags":["loved","well","worked "],"id":34686,"author_id":"Elbert+Hubbard"},{"text":"My memories of my time in high altitude astronomy indicate that there were no oxygen concentration monitors or alarms in the areas that liquid nitrogen was in use at the high altitude astronomical facilities where I had worked.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["alarms","altitude","astrobiology","astronauts","astronomer","astronomical","astronomy","astrophysics","astrosociobiology","concentration","facilities","gas","high","liquid","memories","monitors","nitrogen","oxygen","time","worked"],"id":61525,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"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":"The USA utility power generation industry subcontracts out their dangerous jobs so that the bad statisitics will not be associated with them. Smart people avoid working for the subcontractors. I have worked directly for a number of subcontractors and overseen subcontractors and their staff were clearly sick, showing behavioral problems and overworked. In some cases they were blatantly breaking OSHA laws. OSHA covers it all up! Unfortunately, the problems can be traced back to OSHA and their wilful lack of enforcement of the law.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["associated","avoid","back","bad","behavioral","blatantly","breaking","cases","clearly","cover","dangerous","directly","enforcement","generation","industry","jobs","lack","laws","not","osha","overseen","overworked","people","power","problems","showing","sick","smart","staff","statistics","subcontractors","subcontracts","traced","unfortunately","up","usa","utility","wilful","worked","working"],"id":120348,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"In a nice little house in Atro City there lived a man called Doktor Gleichstein. He was a kind of scientist, and he was very good at his job, which is why he always worked from home. He looked a little funny because he kept losing his eyebrows. Quantum Physics, is sort of like ordinary Physics, only you tend to spend a lot more time looking for the cat. He worked in the sitting room because he’d blown the garage up once already. Apparently a lot of things happened by accident in Quantum Physics.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["a","accident","already","always","apparently","blown","by","cat","eyebrows","funny","gleichstein","good","he","he-d","his","home","job","like","little","lived","lot","only","ordinary","physics","scientist","there","very","was","worked"],"id":126765,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Tracey hurriedly shut the door behind her to prevent the flames that had been licking hungrily at her caboose all the way down the corridor, from following her inside. Then, almost falling into one of the gravity couches, she hurriedly strapped herself into it before punching the emergency release. She hoped the escape system still worked. It did. The explosive dead-bolts fired, shaking the pod loose, dislodging it from the rapidly disintegrating wreck, just about shaking the crap out of her on its bone-jarring way into the great wide open.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["been","corridor","couches","dead-bolts","did","disintegrating","dislidging","down","emergency","escape","explosive","fired","gravity","her","herself","inside","into","licking","loose","open","rapidly","release","shaking","strapped","system","the","then","to","tracey","way","worked","wreck"],"id":126894,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"What's right isn't what's worked.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["difference","right","worked","wrong"],"id":225686,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"The summit of Mauna Kea should never have been developed as it is not safe for humans up there. I am now locked into an endless loop of doctors visits for what appears to be classic very high altitude heart, lung \u0026 brain damage because I was unfortunate enough to have worked there.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["altitude","brain","classic","damage","developed","doctors","endless","enough","heart","high","humans","kea","locked","loop","lung","mauna","never","safe","summit","unfortunate","very","visits","worked"],"id":273678,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.","author":"Loretta Young","tags":["way","everyone","worked "],"id":309876,"author_id":"Loretta+Young"},{"text":"When I worked on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea we were advised to only use the medical oxygen after the daily headaches appeared and that just 15 minutes use was all that was needed to clear up the headaches for a while before we would need it again. We were not advised to use medical oxygen continuously as the Federal Aviation Regulations advises pilots to do. We were not advised to use pulse oximeters to monitor our blood oxygen levels or that the company medical oxygen should have been routinely administered only with our doctors prescription.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["13796","admistered","advised","altitude","appeared","aviation","blood","clear","company","daily","doctors","federal","headaches","high","kea","mauna","medical","monitor","oximeter","oxygen","pilots","prescription","pulse","regulations","summit","up","very","worked"],"id":358095,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}