I think he has a pretty strong case for setting the building on fire.

do the right thing and you're career is over. stay quiet, and you'll live a nice comfortable life with all the trimmings.

it's the american way!

Her.

A doe is a her.

I wouldn't eat the guacamole if I were you

Liberal Moles don't deserve cushy Nuclear energy jobs.

That moran is probably a college grad.

Weaver95: do the right thing and you're career is over. stay quiet, and you'll live a nice comfortable life with all the trimmings.

it's the american way!

Yep. Be a good little drone and just nod your head and agree with whatever the Bossman says,

Sticky Hands: "McCaskill: getting paid to do nothing....
Sweet gig.

///Now I get it, it's not who you blow, but what you blow.

Sounds like a typical government employee

Back in 'The Day', employers cutting corners and screwing with employees was common. The manager of Hoover Dam was promised a huge bonus if he completed the mammoth task early, which in today's money would be close to a couple of million bucks.

So he basically worked his crews to death. He delayed building them the promised housing and let them live in tents until they went on strike, then he fired most and hired in new workers, and THEN reluctantly built the city.

Working in the bypass tunnels, those huge channels designed to move the river away from the actual work site, was pretty much a death sentence that everyone ignored. With diesel powered dump trucks roaring in and out of the tunnels every few minutes and heavy equipment tearing away at the rock, no one provided proper ventilation and scores died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

The true number will never be known because the company Doctors listed deaths as due to pneumonia. The dam probably has the highest number of deaths due to pneumonia in such a small area in history.

Government inspectors came and went. No one commented on the deadly conditions at the dam. Scalers, those intrepid workers who lowered themselves down rock walls to pry off potentially loose boulder or blow them off, had to make their own hard hats. They did that by dipping leather or cloth work hats into tar over and over again and letting them harden. Scalers tended to be lost by having boulders fall on their heads or not being able to get clear of an explosion fast enough.

I think these workers made a whole $5.00 a day, which was then mostly spent at the usual over priced company store.

The dam came in early and under budget. The site manager got his bonus. The designer and architect were praised. There was great fanfare and everyone was awed by what was then one of the great wonders of the world. Built during the depression, it was also praised for creating jobs.

The workers city is still there today, only much bigger. However, in the grave yards lie hundreds of men killed simply by greed and nearly forgotten. It took over 50 years for the true story of the dam to start leaking out to the public.

None of the principal players were ever even charged with criminal actions. Some went on to further glory.

In the subsequent years, especially after WW2, protection for Whistleblowers was created, but has NEVER managed to be fully enforced. The guy who warned the company building the space shuttle boosters about the effects of cold on the rubber seal rings was ignored. When the shuttle blew up, he made his actions public.

After a huge investigation complete with all sorts of finger pointing, no one was held accountable for the disaster. He, however, was quietly fired. His attempts to prevent the disaster remain pretty much a forgotten footnote in history.

The company, NASA and congress were all involved in the disaster. However, the majority of the blame falls on Congress, who threatened to slash NASA's already dwindling budget if they did not launch on time, so NASA pushed the company to produce and our astronauts and a teacher were sacrificed due to political pressure over image.

It also set back the shuttle program years.

Government contracts have been rife with corruption for generations. It seems to be acceptable. Whistleblowers tend to be ignored or reasons are found to fire them or force them to resign.