re: #239 electrotek

So I’ve caused quite a stir when I shared this photo of this Twitter exchange on my FB:

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She shouldn’t have had to lose the internship. Either he could have DM’d her in private to let her know or just ignore the tweet and mind his own business.

Hickam says he had nothing to do with her losing the internship:

“This, I had nothing to do with, nor could I since I do not hire and fire at the agency or have any say on employment whatsoever,” Hickam wrote.

He explained that it was due to the #NASA hashtag that Naomi’s “friends used that called the agency’s attention to it” long after his own comments had been deleted.

Hickam said Naomi reached out to him with an “unnecessary apology, which I heartily accepted and returned with my own.”

“After talking to her and looking at her resume, I am certain she deserves a position in the aerospace industry and I’m doing all I can to secure her one that will be better than she lost,” he said.

newsweek.com