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NASA hopes to shuttle former employees into new jobs
NASA is holding a career fair in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Tuesday to help its former contract employees to find new jobs now that the shuttle program is ending.
Among those who will be rubbing elbows with government and private recruiters are some of the engineers NASA hired to maintain the shuttle's 20 different systems -Â "every part of the shuttle that required a team of engineers and technicians to get it ready for the next flight," said Lisa Malone, a NASA spokeswoman."
Over the years, NASA has been downsizing those teams, with Cape Canaveral seeing the most layoffs, including 1,500 on Friday, Malone said.
"I would say the lion's share of (the layoffs) has been in Florida," she said.
According to a fact sheet from NASA, the agency plans to lay off 2.223 Florida "shuttle prime contractors" in fiscal 2011, for a total of 4,371 layoffs in Florida since 2008. At the end of the year, NASA expects to have laid off 9,425 shuttle contractors nationwide since 2008.
In addition to engineers, NASA's contract employees included accountants, human resources personnel, "everything it takes to run an organization," Malone said.
Workers have known about impending layoffs, in some respect, since President George W. Bush announced the end of the shuttle program, Malone said. She said NASA and the recruiters hope about 1,000 former employees will come to the career fair and apply for new jobs.
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who cares!
Typical American response! If it doesn't directly affect 'you', then who cares...
gfy, philistine coward.
Dumbos like you are the ones who whine about how America doesn't do much for you when you got a problem. But you see the same problem faced by others.. and its "who cares". well who should care about what an ignorant moron like you have to think?
Was there anything that W. did that was good?
Ruined Jeb's chances of being the 3rd Bush in the Whitehouse.
Hmmm... yeah – he left the white house.
He did push for the start of the Constellation program until Obama shot that out of the sky.
He was probably the best President in American history at riding a mountain bike.
That's about it.
While I feel for anyone being laid off, the reality is that workers on the Shuttle Program have been working on that program now for 30, maybe 40, years. Even if the Shuttle Program continued, many would be leaving due to retirement.
I seriously doubt they hired a bunch of 20-year-olds at the beginning of the shuttle program and kept the exact same workforce for 30+ years.
Not everybody on the program is in their fifties and sixties. Bad argument.
The major part of these laid off folks should go into some kind of business. I know that my company cannot afford to hire from this pool but would really like to see if the ones we need were available for engagements. There are many other small businesses that feel the same.
What does your company do, Bob? I represent a small business that is trying to employ some of these people. Perhaps we could help each other.
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When fast-food company Chipotle was audited and hundreds of its illegal workers were fired, American citizens lined up the next day for a chance to work at those jobs. . .
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data from last year show that 98.3 percent of employees were confirmed as work-authorized instantly or within 24 hours using E-Verify. A 2009 report by research firm Westat found that those eligible to work are immediately confirmed 99.5 percent of the time.
E-Verify is free, very accurate and reduces paperwork for American businesses.
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Which has absolutely zip to do with this story. Go cry your anti-immigrant river somewhere else.
Someone is coo-coo for Cocao Puffs.
And thirty years later there is no replacement because Congress has the foresight of a moth. Yea, just cut NASA budgets because the majority of Americans are more interested in American Idol than American dominance in the tech world.
Thank you, thank you, thank you Kenneth! It's scary what the American people are all about, these days. We deserve the predicament that we are currently in. I"m hoping our current problems are wake-up calls, and not something worse...
Excellent comment.
And just to take your thought to conclusion ... Congress has the foresight of a moth, because the American people have the foresight of a moth. We're the idiots that elected those idiots.
Americans really do care about American Idol, and DWTS, and their Facebook status, and whatever mythical nonsense their preacher is stuffing them full of on Sundays. You can't expect an electorate like that to foster science and technology.
I was in Florida when the Mercury Program ended. Most of those workers went into Water and Waist Water Treatment which was a wide open field. I am sure these highly qualified - or dedicated workers would be a great addition to any workforce. PS We need to go to Mars because China will soon own the US.
They'll be hired by the financial community to develop even more confusing financial instruments designed to make us all poor.
the U.S. is in such desperate need of COMPETENT math and science teachers.... Espcially advanced math and science. Many small high schools don't even offer calculus anymore... It's a travesty... I hope some of these people open their hearts and fill this gap.... WE NEED YOU!!!!
Sorry, Aubrie, but those scientists and engineers are totally unqualified to teach science and math to our children. Why? Because they don't have a degree in education. And who declares that the lack of an education degree makes you unqualified? Why, the teachers' unions, of course.
Not in my state.... Sorry that's the situation for you......
Aubrie, I agree 100 percent.. In the country which had been pioneers of innovation, where there are ample opportunities for passionate kids to shine, the only thing lacking are good skillful teachers that can hone their imagination in a right way. There is far too much importance on unnecessary pop culture these days.
As someone with a degree in math who has taught at the high school and college level (basic math through calculus and DEs), I disagree. I've known a number of engineers and mathmaticians who were excellent at their jobs but couldn't teach someone how to add 2 + 2. They are too high level, speaking and thinking like scientists.
Just look at Sheldon in "The Big Bang Theory" – most are like he is. Even his advanced students couldn't understand him. No social skills and an inability to relate to and communicate with non-scientists.
And one thing they could teach is that there is little support for real science. They can teach that a lurch in goivernment policy can put you out on the street with few prospects.
2012. The end is near. Mahabone.
I have an aeronautical engineering degree ... but I was glad I got that minor in computer programming!
To :
lorraine lau
"who cares!"
You are an idiot...please follow Amy Winehouse into Oblivion and soon.
lets make a private sector space company in houston – the space capital of the world
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To:
sheldon
"I seriously doubt they hired a bunch of 20-year-olds at the beginning of the shuttle program and kept the exact same workforce for 30+ years."
I have been here 24 years as have many of my coworkers.
Shows what you know huh?
His point was just that not all of you are ready for retirement. So, it sucks that funding has been cut, etc.
@panzerman I think most of us doubt that there have only been one class of workers, all now in their 50's. Now, if it really IS just a huge group of people who have been there for decades, maybe that's why people are less excited about NASA projects, no fresh ideas....
Doc – Keep working on that flux capacitor – Marty