Newsgroups: sci.space
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NSS Hotline Update (NASA manpower)
Message-ID: <1989Feb11.234430.20201@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <246900003@cdp>
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 89 23:44:30 GMT

In article <246900003@cdp> jordankatz@cdp.UUCP writes:
>...Additionally Fletcher testified that 45% of NASA's rocket scientists,
>engineers and key support personnel will be retiring over the next two years. 
>...Fletcher reported that moral at NASA is pretty low among most of
>the young and old people.

Hardly a big surprise, considering how the NASA bureaucracy has expanded in
recent years -- the competent people are drowning in a swamp of supervisors.
The supervisor:worker ratio is roughly double what it was during Apollo.

Now, if 45% of the *managers* retired, that would probably pick up morale
immensely, not to mention productivity...
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