Keck Quotes

“To file a harassment complaint or not to file a harassment complaint, that is the question.”
― Steven Magee

“I applied for workers compensation for the long term effects of High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) caused by the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Ivy League institutions of Columbia University and Dartmouth College. To date, I have not received any compensation from any of them for my injuries or diseases.”
― Steven Magee

“Five years of working at the toxic W. M. Keck Observatory was the point where I ceased to be healthy and started a daily struggle with sickness. That sickness has plagued me ever since.”
― Steven Magee

“The W. M. Keck Foundation would be wise to establish how profound the health, safety, worker sickness and harassment issues are at the toxic W. M. Keck Observatory.”
― Steven Magee

“It is unfortunate for the toxic W. M. Keck Observatory that it failed to see that blatantly harassing a sickened worker out of their job would have long term repercussions for its ability to operate its current and future facilities atop Mauna Kea as their victim told their horror story to the world.”
― Steven Magee

“Based on what I experienced at the toxic W. M. Keck Observatory, this is the Mauna Kea workplace harassing procedure: 1. Hit the worker with multiple nasty surprise resignation meetings. 2. If they do not voluntary resign, make their working conditions intolerable by repeatedly changing their working conditions on a regular basis and extend their working hours. 3. If still present, put them on leave against their will and fire them while they are away from the workplace.”
― Steven Magee

“I posted a ‪truthful‬ ‪review‬ of the toxic W. M. ‪‎Keck‬ ‪‎Observatory‬ on ‪Glassdoor‬ and got the following message back from them: ...We determined your review does not meet these guidelines because it contains an accusation of a specific ‪criminal‬ ‪activity‬ that we don't allow on our site...Best Regards, Glassdoor”
― Steven Magee

“It was clear to me that using your earned sick time for essential surgery would put a target on your back at the toxic W. M. Keck Observatory.”
― Steven Magee

“From the point that I returned to work from essential surgery to the point of being terminated, it was clear that the toxic W. M. Keck Observatory had declared war on me.”
― Steven Magee

“I never felt so relieved to leave a job as I did the day I left the toxic W. M. Keck Observatory.”
― Steven Magee

“The W. M. Keck Observatory is the only employer that has surprised me during my employment with urine tests for illegal drugs.”
― Steven Magee

“The harassing female managers unexpectedly terminated my employment while I was away on forced time off that they initiated.”
― Steven Magee

“Not content with harassing me numerous times in a private office, an aggressive female manager started extending my extreme night shifts which would would make me really sick with shift work disorder, very high altitude sickness and workplace drug use.”
― Steven Magee

“I found the numerous surprise meetings with the female harassers to be very unprofessional, possibly illegal, and aimed to make sure that you had no legal support in the meetings from an employment lawyer.”
― Steven Magee

“Being harassed out of my job by the W. M. Keck Observatory removed me from the abnormal environmental conditions that exist at very high altitudes, which was clearly beneficial for my long term health.”
― Steven Magee

“The toxic female managers clearly stated the reason why they were harassing me for my resignation was because I had the audacity to use my earned sick time for essential surgery. It all seemed very illegal to me to harass a worker that was working while recovering from essential surgery.”
― Steven Magee

“Two aggressive female astronomy managers would take me into numerous surprise closed door meetings and jointly attempt to harass me out of my job. It was the worst experience that I have ever had in the workplace.”
― Steven Magee

“I enjoyed working with Keck Laser Engineer Robert Lafon during my night shifts. If I saw him today, I would ask him this question: Do you have any health conditions that you associate with working with 20 watt high powered LASER's and very high altitude work?”
― Steven Magee

“Working the night shift exposed me to very high powered 20 watt industrial sodium LASER light. We were told that it was harmless to the naked eye if we did not look directly into the LASER beam. Walking into the observatory dome being illuminated by the bright scattered orange laser light was a common occurrence.”
― Steven Magee

“At the W.M. Keck Observatory on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, there was no routine monitoring of mental functioning, blood oxygen levels, blood pressure or heart rate of summit workers.”
― Steven Magee

“I am a radiation mutant.”
― Steven Magee

“During my time at the W. M. Keck Observatory, I had formed the opinion that overworking workers was part of the company's toxic culture.”
― Steven Magee

“Magee’s Disease is also known as High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) and is a form of High Altitude Disease (HAD).”
― Steven Magee

“I am a survivor of workplace harassment.”
― Steven Magee

“I really dislike it when a company withholds the toxicity of their facility from their workers.”
― Steven Magee

“I gave a tour to a large group of young students and their teacher at the W. M. Keck Observatory. No one had oxygen administration equipment on. A few hours later I got a phone call stating that one of them had forgotten their backpack. ‘Summit Brain’ I thought. I located the backpack and was able to return it to them, as they were staying near to where I lived. I always wondered what their long term health outcomes were after experiencing ‘Summit Brain’.”
― Steven Magee

“I took my parents and past girlfriend up to the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea to visit the W. M. Keck Observatory. The plan was to spend a few hours at the summit, but after half an hour the females became sickly and we had to leave.”
― Steven Magee

“I have taken many people up to the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea to visit the W. M. Keck Observatory. It is not something I would do today due to my extensive knowledge of High Altitude Diseases.”
― Steven Magee

“No training was given on what the pulse oximeter meter readings meant at the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea and how it can impact human health in the long term.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“I was the manager of the world's largest telescopes.”
― Steven Magee