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Holy moly - I have 4 friends who work at JPL, two of them have parents who've worked there for 30 plus years. JPL basically never fires anyone who's a full tim
by elintknower 3y ago
Holy moly - I have 4 friends who work at JPL, two of them have parents who've worked there for 30 plus years. JPL basically never fires anyone who's a full time employee, the running joke among employees is if you're better than the average new college grad your job at JPL is likely safe (speaks volumes for a majority of gov roles).
If JPL is firing people, we're in for a real economic ringer in the next 12-18 months.
- prismic 3y agoNot sure this is indicative of anything other than political dysfunction. JPL is mostly dependent on NASA funding, and without a budget from Congress, NASA reduced their budget for Mars Sample Return by ~$600M. JPL can't pay the bills at the current staff level to the end of the year and here we are. The overall economy has little bearing here.