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Why the Department of Energy Security Sucks

by mad dog

Why do they suck you ask? Here is my story and I swear it's true. I worked at one of the uranium enrichment plants in the good ole' USA for 25 years as an operator. Now of course to work at one of these facilities you have to have a security clearance and there are varying degrees of clearances depending on how secure you need to be.

Let me backtrack about 20 some odd years ago when tensions between the USA and communist type countries were taken a lot more seriously than now. Well maybe.

Anyway the government in all their wisdom does a full background check on any individual considered for employment. They go to your neighbors, friends, enemies, bar buddies etc. to see if there is any dirt on you. Why do they do this you ask? Well, some foreign national might try to blackmail you for "classified information" that being an employee you might have access to.

Back in those days I could understand this line of thinking but back then I was hired to be a janitor. Hell, I wouldn't know "classified, secret, or confidential" if it stared me right in the face. Well, I guess I passed their security test as I was hired for employment. I would sweep the floors in the buildings where they do uranium enrichment. If you don't know what that is it basically means taking raw uranium out of the ground, it has what they call an assay of about .711. Enrichment makes the assay higher hence we can feed nuclear reactors and even make bombs.

Oh yeah that place used to be nicknamed the "bomb plant" although the really bad shit was in another plant. Now after sweeping up this green powder that we didn't know what the hell it was, seems it is actually green salt which is a form of uranium that has been depleted. Anyway, I was promoted to big, badass cascade operator. Sounds really important huh? Well, when you work at a place like that you have to sign umpteen papers saying I won't do this or do that etc. Can't talk about your work to family, spouse and what have you.

Anyway, I am a person who likes to consume alcoholic beverages. Now this is ok per se but security frowns on that kind of thing which I understand their reasons to be concerned. Drugs are taboo also as is committing crimes, killing someone and you even had to report traffic tickets back in those days. Remember now those communist nations were a bad lot. They might have or maybe did have spies over here that wanted to steal our secrets. Whoaaaa!!!

Anyway, I went thru a divorce it seems and started drowning my sorrows when lo and behold, I was arrested for a DUI but it was called DWI back then. Well, here comes old DOE security wanting you to write a book on what happened or they sent one of their lackeys down to talk with you. Hell, you might have a problem.

Well, I suppose I did have a problem that probably 10 million people on the planet share with me but they don't work for a government entity that has secret shit... In the early 80's I had a total of 3 DUI's and the most I got out of it was like 30 days in jail which I served on weekends. Well, fast forward to the year 2000 or thereabouts. Not only did I have a problem with alcohol but seems I'm depressed and have to take anti-depressants but I don't realize this at first.

After another round with good ole' DOE security my clearance gets yanked and I'm put in temporary hell until they decide what to do with me. Well, I seek counseling and get back on the right track. For awhile. Then I got another DUI and a month later I get another one. Well, guess what? Yup, they are back again. Now, I deserved this go around but I served my time, paid my fines and attorney fees so I paid for that but big, bad DOES decides to have a hearing to determine if my clearance should be reinstated. At this point and time I would have been better off if I had killed somebody. You are innocent until proven guilty and the court will appoint you representation if you cannot afford it.

Well, DOES considers you guilty until proven innocent and although you have a right to an attorney, the money comes out of your pocket. Well, I couldn't afford an attorney so I had to represent myself. They bring in this attorney and a doctor who had evaluated me before and said I was an ok dude right? Well, you can go to DOE security website and read cases that have already been decided. In all the ones I read almost all of the people who had similar circumstances are deemed ok or well or rehabbed whatever after a period of one year if nothing else has come up.

Well, it had been a year and a half in my case but all of a sudden this fucking doctor comes up with new case studies that he has read and it should be at least five years before a person should be deemed rehabilitated. So I say to the doctor if that is the case then there are a lot of loose cannons running around that you so called doctors have allowed regaining their clearance. Hmmm, no answer to that one from him.

So I pose this question to you the reader of this. Would a person say such as myself that was in debt be more apt to sell these so called secrets to gain money to pay bills and support his/her family or one that is bringing home a regular paycheck? And the fact that my clearance was denied, I cannot work in the field that I spent half my life doing and I can't now get a job at even at Wal-Mart because I am in debt and they would think I steal. Yeah, I was busted for DUI's and yeah, I spent time in jail and fines and lost my license for a year but did DOES ever suggest that I go to rehab. Fuck no, they didn't.

I knew a former worker that voluntarily admitted himself asking for help and when he got out, they pulled his clearance and eventually terminated him. So, if I was such a risk, why did they let me work all those years? Here's the funny part. I know lots of people that work at this plant now that smoke pot, drink like a fish and the only difference between myself and them is I got caught and they didn't. Hell, I knew of guys that would drink on the job and their co-workers and supervisor would cover for them. I may be a lot of things but I never drank on the job or did drugs but they don't care about that.

Reminds me of Dragnet. Just the facts, maam. I even recall seeing head of security at that time down at the local pub getting shitfaced. Ain't that some shit. These so called people should get their heads out of their ass and realize that times have changed. I know of many employers that if an employee has problems with drugs or alcohol, they try to help them not punish them. But we are talking about OUR American government who in their infinite wisdom (I call it a case of the dumbass) deem this and deem that.

Hell, we buy uranium from Russia now. Why? Because if we didn't, some other country would and they might make their own badboy bombs. C'mon America. Wake up. C'mon DOES. Get yur head out of your ass and realize that people make mistakes but their whole lives should not be turned to shit because of it. Watergate, Clinton and all these other so called sinners. Look at them now. Boy, they sure have paid for their mistakes huh? Hell, even Jessica Hahn who was treated so badly by Jim Baker and then did a layout for a girlie magazine.

What about all the contamination to our environment and to former workers that they now have major health issues. You know, I never drank until after I started working at that shithole. Breathe it in piss it out is what those doctors back then told you. It won't hurt you. Hey, you smokers, does that sound familiar.

Anybody that wants more details about any of what I have written are more than welcome to email me and I will respond. Oh yeah, make sure your name isn't like Shit-tova or Bendya-ova. That might be construed as being from another country and God knows we know what happens then. To our wonderful government I thank you from the bottom of my empty heart.

P.S. - forgot the update. I have since had to take early retirement or get fired so I don't even get a full pension. I had three more years to go before full retirement. Lowes or Home Depot or any of those places won't hire me either. I'm not singing the blues. I'm just telling a story about a bunch of old government farts that should revise their rules and regulations.

My email address is [email protected]

 
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