NASA official warns staff about publicly displaying their badges amid reports of harassment
NASA official warns staff about publicly displaying their badges amid reports of harassment
The Trump administration has used strong language to disparage the federal workforce. A NASA official urges staff to “please use caution” in public amid the increasing “negative rhetoric” toward government workers.
Summary
NASA’s chief health and medical officer, Dr. James Polk, warned employees to be cautious about displaying badges in public due to reports of harassment.
His email followed an incident where a NASA employee was confronted at a Starbucks for being a federal worker.
The warning comes amid escalating rhetoric from the Trump administration, which has criticized federal employees and pushed for government downsizing. While NASA has avoided major layoffs, concerns persist.
Polk urged staff to stay vigilant and report incidents to the Office of Protective Services.
If the redcaps have been brainwashed into now attacking NASA employees, it shows how powerful brainwashing really is. It's bad enough that they were guided into hating federal workers in general, but fucking NASA? NASA is something I've always thought of as something to aspire to, but then, I'm not an anti-intellectual asshole.
I do remember, back during the Obama administration, a teabagging co-worker coming in all miffed at having seen a government truck of some kind with TWO people seated in it. He thought that was further evidence of how the country is going down the toilet, somehow, because of it demonstrating "waste" in some way. I asked a question or two and then ejected from the "conversation" (more of a monologue from him, really) since I couldn't make sense of his ramblings.
I suspect that some hate radio personality took a dump in his skull that day with something related to how bad government is and people doing those jobs are just leeches and subhumans not doing "real jobs" - the same shit that MGT just regurgitated, by the way.
Trump is a fed.
It's pretty standard practice to put away your badge when not at the workplace.
I bet NASA employees have a lot less public harassment to worry about compared to the departments that are actively dismantling the government
Hiding your badges while not on work property is a physical security practice. If an attacker were to be trying to scan for RFID or NFC tags in an area they would usually only get the data from the badge, not the image/ID printed on the surface.
In this instance I think your right, it seems like its more likely doing more of that illegal DOGE shit, not some sophisticated attacker.
Its literally part of paperwork to even get the badge, for DoD at least, to not wear it outside the area its for...
Yeah. Any place you need a badge to get in is a place you don't want to advertise. I wouldn't want every person on the street knowing where I worked anyway.