When I reflect on my time working for the W. M. Keck Observatory, Columbia University and Dartmouth College, my memories are not of brilliant minds advancing science, but rather of shady people damaging their workers health in order to obtain tainted astronomical data.

My dislike of the government was learned through experience.

Those that lack experience complain to OSHA, the wise complain to the Internet.

This was my Mauna Kea experience: 1. Hire worker and do not disclose the full range of the biological toxicity of the very high altitude facility to them. 2. Let the worker get sick and start using their earned sick time. 3. Harass the sickened worker out of the company. 4. Hire an unsuspecting healthy worker to replace them.

During almost a decade in high altitude astronomy, I developed a strong dislike for the upper management teams through experience.

Working as a manager in the Ivy League was the most demoralizing experience that I ever had in the workplace.

When I worked in high altitude astronomy, I had no idea how dangerous the management teams were.

There is a social responsibility for those in the know to protect those that do not know.

Business as usual at the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii is no longer acceptable.