NASA celebrated this employee's story of resilience, then tried to scrub it from the internet. Then fired her.

She said she immediately knew what was happening when she walked into her weekly one-on-one with her supervisor; the meeting had an unexpected attendee. An HR representative rose from a seat in the corner as Ferreira entered the office. She was told she was being let go because she wasn't fulfilling her position's responsibilities, "effective immediately."

"When I was about to open my mouth, she waved her hand at me, and was like, 'No, we're not doing that,'" Ferreira said. "I'm hearing ringing in my head."

"They didn't let me speak in my own meeting."

The cruelty and arrogant dismissiveness of that response is infuriating to me.

"Yay! Great work, Rose!"

"Wait! Fuck! I forgot that we can only give attaboys to white men now. No one heard that though, right?"

I heard that...

"Fuck fuck fuck fuck.... Uhhhh.... Hit the bricks, Rose! We'll keep your DEI achievements, though."

Sorry Rose, the US is a meritocracy now, and the only ones with any merit are white male republicans.

Welcome to the New America. This is our reality now.

This is pretty consistent with what's been happening around me. Except I've been seeing and hearing about more layoffs.

NASA was built on european "former" nazis, maybe the European Space Agency will profit from american non-nazi scientist refugees

@remindme@mstdn.social at 11:30 am