The summit of Mauna Kea was definitely a place where it was better to be a hard to replace skilled engineer than an easy to replace technician. It was my experience that once you had developed Mauna Kea Sickness that the management team would blatantly harass you out of your job using nasty inhumane human resources techniques.

Human resources is typically the most corrupt group in a company.

Many people over forty have at least one health condition that affects their ability to work a forty hour work week effectively. Human Resources (HR), doctors and governments have known this fact for decades.

As a manager, I was able to put the USA workplace mental health system to the test. In each of three separate companies there was an employee that was displaying mental health issues and I reported this to the human resources department. The outcome: I was terminated every time. The conclusion: Reporting mental health issues in USA employees will lose you your job!

To file a harassment complaint or not to file a harassment complaint, that is the question.

By the time I left high altitude astronomy I had formed the opinion that the human resources department was the shadiest.

After a decade in high altitude astronomy, I had come to the conclusion that the primary purpose of the human resources department was to facilitate the company objectives at the expense of the employees.

The primary purpose of human resources is to protect the company at the expense of the employees.