1. I am directing most employees to work from home tomorrow, Wednesday, February 7, so everyone can be in a safe, comfortable environment on a stressful day. Most individuals will not be able to enter the Lab during this mandatory remote work day. A Lab access list has been created and those who will have access will be notified by email shortly. If you do not receive an email instructing you to be on Lab, please plan to work remotely, regardless of your telework agreement status. In addition, and to ensure we have everyone’s accurate contact information, I am also asking everyone to please review and update your personal email and phone number in Workday today.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a company or organization that had mandatory remote work day outside of really crazy weather during the peak of Covid. Perhaps it’s to protect the equipment from distraught or disgruntled employees?

  • AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    The privatization was the point, SpaceX is the culmination of what started in the 70s so trying to give relative praise to SpaceX’s achievements here is literaly the Obama self-medal meme.

    What are you talking about?

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      10 months ago

      Not OP, but I think the first part of the sentence you quoted is what they’re talking about. SpaceX, a private company that is now the cutting edge of space tech in the US, is what you get as a result of general efforts to privatize everything. These efforts ramped up dramatically in the 70’s, from my understanding.