It's Joever

[Anonymous No.16015335]

NASA-JPL announced layoffs to 530 employees (8% of staff), restrict access to labs and enforce mandatory wfh

https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/jpl/jpl-workforce-update/

[Anonymous No.16015336]

Ukraine and Israel need the money more, chud.

[Anonymous No.16015339]

2. Tomorrow, leadership (mostly at the Division and Directorate level) will hold brief mandatory virtual workforce update meetings with their JPL teams. You will each be invited to one of these. Please look out for those online meeting invitations and ensure your attendance. Meeting times will vary depending on the organization, but all will happen tomorrow. In those meetings, your managers will reiterate some of the details I’m sharing here, along with giving some insight into the impact of the layoff in that organization. Even those organizations that do not have impacted employees will be meeting to ensure we are all hearing the same information. Importantly, we will not be sharing any specifics about any individual employees who are impacted.

Grim... they don't even have the balls to fire people in person

[Anonymous No.16015367]

>>16015335
Is this because of what's happening with Voyager 1?

[Anonymous No.16015377]

So JPL employs about 7000 people and they can't even build a single functional rocket.
How is it that SpaceX can launch a new rocket several times a week with less than twice the number of employees JPL has?

[Anonymous No.16015428]

>>16015335
Bidenomics

[Anonymous No.16015548]

>>16015335
>enforce mandatory wfh
That's an interesting twist. It makes sense if they're able to reduce their real estate costs, though I would have thought that it owned its own real estate. Maybe this keeps them from needing to renovate older buildings that are increasingly expensive to maintain and operate.

[Anonymous No.16016034]

>>16015548
It's more like they enforce wfh during these cuts so that there is no gossip flying around, isolate people who are laid off so it doesn't demoralize the survivors, as they announce they gonna lay off people via Zoom >>16015339 remotely

Maybe also to prevent sabotage by disgruntled employees who got fired

[Anonymous No.16016892]

>>16016034
>Maybe also to prevent sabotage by disgruntled employees who got fired
JPL doesn't do anything, theres is nothing they produce which could be sabotaged.

[Anonymous No.16018196]

>>16016892
None of the people in that pic are competent enough to sabotage anything intentionally, they can only sabotage inadvertently which they accomplish simply by showing up to work

[Anonymous No.16018316]

>>16015335
That's so strange given all the money that's been put into space the last couple years. Are they trying to shake talent to defense explicitly?

[Anonymous No.16018740]

The really funny thing about this is that the people getting fired have no prospects whatsoever for getting hired anywhere else due to the specialized nature of their training.

[Anonymous No.16018858]

>>16018740
china might be interested in some of them

[Anonymous No.16019149]

>>16018858
The UK has been getting salty over China hiring ex-RAF pilots to train Chinese pilots. Seems like something that could become a growing problem.

[Anonymous No.16019484]

>>16018740
if they're good they can go to SpaceX

the commute from Pasadena to Hawthorne sucks though

[Anonymous No.16019773]

>>16015335
basically a roman decimation

[Anonymous No.16020302]

>>16019484
They aren't good and they don't have anything to offer SpaceX, people from NASA are demonstrably incapable of building rockets.

[Anonymous No.16020307]

>>16015335
>have enough money for millions of illegal migrants
>don't have enough money for a couple thousand rocket scientists

[Anonymous No.16020311]

>>16015335
I wonder why

[Anonymous No.16020320]

>>16020307
Most of those "rocket scientists" are DEI hires anyway.

[Anonymous No.16021163]

>>16020302
JPL laid off over 500 people! probably five or six of them are spacex material

[Anonymous No.16021165]

>>16015367
What's happening with Voyager 1 anon?

[Anonymous No.16021189]

>>16021163
They would have already been at SpaceX if they were that, since SpaceX pays much better and SpaceX actually builds rockets and launches them into space while the only think NASA creates is gay government propaganda that they launch into the internet

[Anonymous No.16021684]

>>16018316
There isn't any talent at NASA.

[Anonymous No.16022967]

>>16021684
Theres some brilliant people at NASA who are brilliant when it comes to making vast fortunes of money disappear without getting of any usefulness or value in return.

[Anonymous No.16024027]

>>16020320
They also weren't "rocket scientists"
NASA doesn't build or design rockets, they don't know how to