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US wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers can't figure out how to reach them
- vinni2 2y agoThey can hire Homer Simpson.
- duxup 2y agoThis is one of those clueless new executive who thinks he knows better than everyone type situations. Except for nuclear security.
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- freehorse 2y agoProbably they just read "safety" and thought this is one of these things they are supposed to cut down.
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- steeve 2y agoImpeccable job guys. Move fast, break things, nuclear edition.
- FAAST 2y agoThe missing Duke Nukem xpack
- inverted_flag 2y agoFiring an employee and then begging them to come back because of how essential they are? Art of the deal.
- kergonath 2y agoAlso, completely expected: it all happened already at Twitter. I’d have hoped that they would be a bit more careful with nuclear safety, though.
- gotorazor 2y agoI think that's basically the Elon playbook. He did it with the supercharger team as well at Tesla.
- rco8786 2y agoHe did it at Twitter also
- throw310822 2y ago"If you don't find yourself in need to add back at least 20% of what you removed, you didn't remove enough". Elon's word. Sounds like an excellent engineering principle, with some caveats of course.
- lawn 2y agoI'm looking forward to Elon applying the same strategy to aviation. I wonder how many crashes it'll take for him to realize that this is a horrible engineering principle?
- timeon 2y ago> excellent engineering principle Imagine structural engineer thinking like this.
- bediger4000 2y agoI talked to a McDonnell Aircraft structural engineer in the 80s. He said something like Old Man McDonnel told us to design for a 0.85 factor of safety on the F101. If anything broke during testing, we'd redesign it. I'm not sure if that was how it really worked out.
- joezydeco 2y agoGeez, it's almost like Russia handed them a priority checklist of organizations that needed to go toothless as soon as possible. CIA influence in Europe, aid to Ukraine, nuclear strike capability...
- drawkward 2y agoThis is all according to Aleksandr Dugin's playbook for russian supremacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
- tonyhart7 2y agoelon musk literally cut off 80% twitter employees at 2022, he literally doing the same thing while he think he can get away with twitter and some left over engineer manage to keep SLA in check but for an entire federal employee in 1 country???? too much complexity for that
- belter 2y agoAnd flagged within seconds on HN...
- ffsm8 2y agoIt blows my mind how quickly everything even remotely critical of the trump administration gets flagged since they've taken office. While I'd expect some to get flagged, the speed and throughoutness of it is really unusual for HN. I'm not American so the discussions were always interesting to read for me - but this time around, every thread I click on is dead by the time I see it. Never been like that since I've started frequenting HN in 2012
- dashundchen 2y agoConspiracy to me but it seems like coordinated flagging. I've noticed on a local US subreddit any political action or protest is immediately swarmed by people criticizing it or calling it useless. The comments might end up down voted but the level of engagement far exceeds a typical thread. Then looking through their comment history they're doing it across many other city subreddit. No trend of them being an active participant in any one location.
- nobodyandproud 2y ago[flagged]
- viraptor 2y agoThe only accountability here (apart from mob justice) is through gov/legal action. So if you want to see it, start calling your representatives.
- nobodyandproud 2y agoMob justice, not unlike January 6 I’m sure. It’s hard to view your response as a good-faith response. Trump’s own party have coyly admitted the actions are illegal. The executive branch charged with faithfully upholding the laws is being dismantled, as the institutions are being coopted before our very eyes.
- viraptor 2y agoDo you want to just complain about no accountability or were you actually interested in one? I'm not aware of any more accountability alternatives - feel free to add any you know of.
- nobodyandproud 2y agoWhy would you assume I haven’t done the above and more? It doesn’t change what’s happening and that it’s illegal. Your response however, isn’t in good faith, and I won’t be responding to you further.
- unyttigfjelltol 2y agoThe administration claimed that the first year or two of employment is part of the "application process." We all know that's nonsense. A generation of skilled workers is learning to distrust and avoid government service at all costs, precisely the people government should want to attract. Wrong move, DOGE bros.
- DiogenesKynikos 2y agoThe goal of DOGE is to dismantle the Federal government, so they consider the loss of trust a feature, not a bug.
- itronitron 2y ago>> that speed has resulted in complications, including firing people agencies actually want to keep. No shit, Sherlock. If the agencies didn't want to keep them they wouldn't be there. Also, 'probationary' employees are most likely to be new hires, which the agency has actively invested time and money into recruiting and hiring. They are probably also younger and have more voting years ahead of them :)
- jisnsm 2y agoI love being on Reddit
- s0rce 2y agoI saw on linkedin a federal nuclear safety engineer was looking for work. Good job government.
- martinpw 2y agoJust got someone on LinkedIn asking to connect from one of these national labs with their status set to Looking for Work. Had a sinking feeling, saw the story online, looked for the articles here, didn't see any, then searched and found they were all (like the current one) flagged and hidden.
- willmadden 2y agoWhy is this propaganda on hacker news?
- drawkward 2y agoYour comment adds nothing to this discussion! Perhaps you shluld read up on the site's posting guidelines.
- willmadden 2y agoIt violates the guidelines as off-topic. Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- orwin 2y agoI mean, civil nuclear is the main topic that drew me to HN (that and cybersec), isn't this about civil nuclear safety? Or did I misread the article? Also, it reads like a Dilbert strip, which is pretty much on-tone with HN.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoNo, this isn't about civil nuclear safety. This is about the safety of nuclear weapons.
- drawkward 2y agoThe would suggest it is even more important a topic, no?
- beanjuiceII 2y agocalling propaganda spam propaganda is against site posting guidelines?
- cmdtab 2y agoHow does this shape employment sentiment in the US? Has there been any change in how people behave at workplace as result of mass layoffs?
- drawkward 2y agoThe beatings will continue until morale improves!
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoEarlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43055119 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43055119
- catlover76 2y ago[dead]
- aSithLord 2y agoSo the biden administration had no way to contact them except by showing up at their job? lol
- sys_64738 2y agoIs the US basically defenseless at this moment in time from a nuclear attack?
- michaelbarton 2y agoGraebers “bullshit jobs” books feels so relevant right now Not because he’d say that the nuclear safety officers are the bullshit jobs, but the ones who fired and then unable to rehire them are Really worth a read (or listen!)
- rawgabbit 2y agoWith friends like these we don’t need enemies.