Poor performing employees are the expected outcome in workers that are routinely exposed to industrial gas, chemicals, heavy metals, company supplied drugs, high altitudes, mal-acclimatization, Faraday cages, abnormal levels of radiation, industrial LASER’s, dirty electricity, social isolation, extreme night shifts, long daily commutes, and so on.

When I worked at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO), I had been trained to instruct the workers to take the company supplied drugs to do their jobs.

The prime of my life was mired in strange physical and mental illness.

Any worker that takes a job in high altitude astronomy needs to be prepared to lose their mental and physical health, and possibly to develop gender issues.

I suspect that if the long term summit workers of the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) were studied, they would find elevated levels of mental and physical illness, gender dysphoria, disease and premature death that comes from keeping them in an abnormal state of mal-acclimatization.

I spent a decade of my life mal-acclimatizing to high altitude mountains in professional astronomy and now I am disabled with a wide variety of mental and physical illnesses.

I was fortunate when I developed mental illness that it had gone mainstream.

Professional astronomy turned me into a broken man.

When in doubt, do the right thing.