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Magee’s Disease is also known as High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) and is a form of High Altitude Disease (HAD).
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It was common for sea level adapted staff to report tiredness and fatigue daily after returning to sea level from the high altitude mountain observatory.
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At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental functioning, blood oxygen levels, blood pressure or heart rate of summit workers.
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I never felt so relieved to leave a job as I did the day I left the toxic W. M. Keck Observatory.
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I found the numerous surprise meetings with the female harassers to be very unprofessional, possibly illegal, and aimed to make sure that you had no legal support in the meetings from an employment lawyer.
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Being harassed out of my job by the W. M. Keck Observatory removed me from the abnormal environmental conditions that exist at very high altitudes, which was clearly beneficial for my long term health.
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The toxic female managers clearly stated the reason why they were harassing me for my resignation was because I had the audacity to use my earned sick time for essential surgery. It all seemed very illegal to me to harass a worker that was working while recovering from essential surgery.
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Working the night shift exposed me to very high powered 20 watt industrial sodium LASER light. We were told that it was harmless to the naked eye if we did not look directly into the LASER beam. Walking into the observatory dome being illuminated by the bright scattered orange laser light was a common occurrence.
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I found that high altitude astronomy was riddled with nepotism.
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