While astronomers have been studying Mercury, I have been living with mercury.

I can assure you that after developing workplace mercury poisoning, the astronomy management team will not renew your contract.

Reflecting on my time at the 2006 to 2008 observatory, I started to lose my voice in management meetings after extensively handling the rubber mercury mirror support system and the large glass jars of on-site stored mercury with my bare hands and no respiratory protection.

Poison my team and I will hunt you down with science.

I am a survivor of mercury poisoning.

Mercury poison me and we will have a problem.

I never received any industry recognized training in astronomy on how to safely clean up smashed mercury filled florescent tubes.

I accept no responsibility whatsoever for anything that I did while I had mercury poisoning.

Had I been educated by my employers as to how hazardous mercury filled spectral lamps were, I would never have taken an obsolete mercury filled spectral lamp home.