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Fight for a living minimum wage. $15, $20, $30, $50

2014.07.23 12:18 brightman95 Fight for a living minimum wage. $15, $20, $30, $50

/FightFor15 is a grassroots community designed to raise support and awareness for a nationwide federal minimum wage. The minimum wage of $7.25 hasn't increased in over 15 years. This subs original goal was $15 but even that isn't a living wage in most parts of the US. $15, $20, $30, $50 . This movement works to give workers a living wage and the right to unionize.
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2012.05.30 04:12 Sickbilly About the chemicals we put in ourselves.

Nontoxic is for the Redditor that wants to know about synthetic ingredients, in any thing from cosmetics, shampoo, and hair gel, to car seats, peanut butter, and the water you drink. Please start all questions or information request titles If you have answers or industry knowledge about a product or ingredient, please provide some of you background, and a reference for the information you're providing.
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2018.02.16 03:12 Fishb20 Student Walkout (previously National Walkout)

Student walkout to reduce gun violence
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2024.05.02 16:19 Zealousideal-Wish843 Keep his last name?

  1. Professionally, it would make the most sense to keep my new last name as it flows better on paper and it's a generic name which in my opinion would dilute biases on paper.
    1. My legal docs are already changed to my married name and the process of changing it back in my state is actually so tedious and requires so much paperwork and I just want to not have to go backwards. I feel like I'm not the me from my maiden name.
    2. I did not feel attached to my maiden last name because my parents divorced and my mom took back her maiden name and my siblings didn't have a great relationship with our father. However my degree has my maiden name (which is mostly what I'm concerned about as any background checks on my education would show my maiden name).
    3. I just like my married last name more and can isolate the name from the person and the failed marriage.
So should I keep my married name? Did you keep yours for any of the above reasons and how did that work out in the end. Did you have to jump through professional hoops?
Thanks
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2024.05.02 16:18 thegreatcerebral Scoping Question....

I was on a webinar in regards to CMMC and a question came up in regards to Physical Security and scoping. The question was in essence...
If you have say badge readers or even MFA, while those do not store, access, process, etc. any CUI, if they are cloud controlled, do they need to be FedRAMP or equal?
Right, so let's say you have a ID badge system that you use for door access. It is hosted in the cloud. All it does is read a badge, check to see if that doobadge/time checks out and allows entry or not. No CUI at all, not even any clear identifying things other than a badge number and a Name.
There was an assessor in the webinar and it was a Q&A and his statement was that it is in scope and therefore would need to fall into the Security Protection Assets in the scoping guide.
So then Verkada for anything other than their new FIPS compliant cameras are out. Duo has a Federal offering that you would need to use if you wanted to use them for MFA.
My question is, Meraki. I know they now have FedRAMP as of February. If you are a single site, not using any VPN functions/MDM functions. Say you have a Firewall, two Switches, and one AP; the small office starter pack. Does Meraki fall under Security Protection Assets or does it fall under Specialized Assets: Operational Technology?
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2024.05.02 16:18 ThisDayInLaborHistor This Day in Labor History

May 2nd: 1972 Sunshine Mine Disaster

On this day in labor history, the Sunshine Mine disaster occurred in 1972 in Silver Valley, Idaho. Fire was first detected at approximately 11:40 AM by an electrician who smelled smoke. The foreman was warned, calling down to the work room and ordering them to find the source. Workers found tunnels so filled with smoke they couldn’t pass through. Alerts were sounded and oxygen masks sent to miners. Laborers fled to another part of the mine where they were winched to the surface until the operator succumbed to inhalation. Miners in lower levels were trapped, dying from carbon monoxide poisoning. Rescuers were able to save some workers by using mine hoists to go through shafts, but they were restricted by the size of their oxygen tanks and amount of smoke. While eighty miners evacuated, only two in the mine survived. Ninety-one workers died, marking the worst disaster in Idaho’s history. Investigations into the cause of the fire were hindered by the mine’s collapse, leaving the origins of the disaster unknown. The event directly influenced the passing of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, which substantially improved mine safety and created disaster training.\
Sources in Comments.
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2024.05.02 16:18 ThisDayInLaborHistor This Day in Labor History

May 2nd: 1972 Sunshine Mine Disaster

On this day in labor history, the Sunshine Mine disaster occurred in 1972 in Silver Valley, Idaho. Fire was first detected at approximately 11:40 AM by an electrician who smelled smoke. The foreman was warned, calling down to the work room and ordering them to find the source. Workers found tunnels so filled with smoke they couldn’t pass through. Alerts were sounded and oxygen masks sent to miners. Laborers fled to another part of the mine where they were winched to the surface until the operator succumbed to inhalation. Miners in lower levels were trapped, dying from carbon monoxide poisoning. Rescuers were able to save some workers by using mine hoists to go through shafts, but they were restricted by the size of their oxygen tanks and amount of smoke. While eighty miners evacuated, only two in the mine survived. Ninety-one workers died, marking the worst disaster in Idaho’s history. Investigations into the cause of the fire were hindered by the mine’s collapse, leaving the origins of the disaster unknown. The event directly influenced the passing of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, which substantially improved mine safety and created disaster training.\
Sources in Comments.
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2024.05.02 16:17 ThisDayInLaborHistor This Day in Labor History

May 2nd: 1972 Sunshine Mine Disaster

On this day in labor history, the Sunshine Mine disaster occurred in 1972 in Silver Valley, Idaho. Fire was first detected at approximately 11:40 AM by an electrician who smelled smoke. The foreman was warned, calling down to the work room and ordering them to find the source. Workers found tunnels so filled with smoke they couldn’t pass through. Alerts were sounded and oxygen masks sent to miners. Laborers fled to another part of the mine where they were winched to the surface until the operator succumbed to inhalation. Miners in lower levels were trapped, dying from carbon monoxide poisoning. Rescuers were able to save some workers by using mine hoists to go through shafts, but they were restricted by the size of their oxygen tanks and amount of smoke. While eighty miners evacuated, only two in the mine survived. Ninety-one workers died, marking the worst disaster in Idaho’s history. Investigations into the cause of the fire were hindered by the mine’s collapse, leaving the origins of the disaster unknown. The event directly influenced the passing of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, which substantially improved mine safety and created disaster training.
Sources in Comments.
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2024.05.02 16:16 SleevenSir FJO TIMELINE!!!

Received my FJO for a USMC GG-12 2210 position yesterday! I have been a DoD contractor for awhile and decided to start applying to positions last year. Thank you for all the advice/insight on this sub, it was tremendously helpful!
Applied: 12/13/2023
Announcement closed: 12/18/2023
Contacted for Interview: 1/4/2024
Interview: 1/9/2024
Referred: Never received notice as I applied via email to HR from a USAJOBS announcement
TJO: 3/21/2024
Step increase request submitted: 3/22/2024
Step increase (7) approved: 4/15/2024
FJO: 5/1/2024
EOD: 5/20/2024
Side note: This position does require a clearance, but my assumption is no background check (that I know of) or fingerprints were done as I am prior active duty USMC and have held a clearance for a long time.
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2024.05.02 16:14 graywolt Total Flipped World Tour - Area Fifty-Won

Total Flipped World Tour - Area Fifty-Won
Credit to u/Consumed2010 and u/you_2_cool for plot points!

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Owen is eliminated in a 7-4 vote
Back on the plane, the villainous triumvirate of Topher, Alejandro, and Scott are talking. They’re discussing who they should vote off, and they agree on Owen, as he is the best competitor of the opposing three on their team. They briefly wonder how to make this happen, and Alejandro gets an idea.
Max & Staci are eating dinner, and Alejandro walks up to them, seemingly concerned. He states that while he knows they don’t like him, they should team up & vote for Owen, as he is unfit to compete. Max says that what Alejandro is saying is preposterous, and Alejandro just pans to Owen in the background, who is dazed & confused. Staci starts to consider what Alejandro is saying, while an irate Max just storms off.
At the elimination ceremony, Owen & Scott are the last two not safe. Scott is declared safe, which shocks & angers Max. He asks how this happened, and Staci guiltily looks away, while Topher, Alejandro, & Scott are smirking. Owen is disappointed in this, and Max starts to cry as Owen heads to get a parachute to jump off. Owen gives Max one more big hug before the big guy jumps off the jet.
After this happens, Max is staring bullets throughout everyone on Team Chris. He says that while he expected the villain trio to vote Owen, he never expected Staci to do so. He then storms off, and in the confessional, he angrily shouts his intent to get revenge on Alejandro, Scott, & Topher before shouting that they will not subdue him. In his quarters, Chris asks some questions that have been unanswered, before signing off.
Owen has just parachuted back in a field in Athens, and is dejected at his elimination, He then just hopes that his buddy Max and Staci as well can take down Topher, Scott, and Alejandro.
He starts walking away before a blur of orange, green, and yellow tackles him, and starts to kiss him. He asks who this is until he sees the face of Izzy, who is smiling at him. He asks if they’re back together, and Izzy says that they never broke up. Owen asks what she means, and she says that Brainzilla didn’t have that permission, and that she’s in an indefinite time-out.
Owen accepts this, and then asks how they will get back to Canada. Izzy explains that the Aftermath show brings a person to pick an eliminated contestant up, along with the needed plane tickets. Izzy then says that since an Aftermath show isn’t happening immediately & their flight was delayed until the evening of tomorrow, they can spend the night out in Athens. Owen is belated at this, and he tells Izzy that he’s always wanted to try authentic Greek cuisine. Izzy then hops into Owen’s arms, and they walk away, giggling.
Area Fifty-Won
In first class, things are normal, with Sugar attracting the ire of everyone else. Sugar then states that it’ll be hard to eliminate her, as she’ll just keep winning. In the confessional, Jasmine rhetorically asks if the team should just throw the next challenge to get Sugar out, rubbing her chin as she thinks of this.
In economy class, Staci is distraught, Max is angry, and the evil trio is thinking. In the confessional, Scott says that he and Alejandro likely have the same plan of trying to eliminate each other, as neither of them trust each other. Because of this, Scott reasons that he must get 2 other votes to send Alejandro packing.
Back in economy class, Alejandro is moving closer to Topher. He asks Topher what he was saying to Scott, and as Topher tries to make an excuse, the camera cuts to the cockpit, where we see an inflated Chef dummy acting as the autopilot for the Jumbo Jet. The controls then go completely bonkers, and we see two aliens in UFO’s shooting electricity beams at the plane.
Chris calls the "potential crash victims" to visit the culinary for a "last meal" while their autopilot tests some of the equipment. When they get there, Sugar tries to eat some fruit, but it’s revealed to be a prop, but Sugar shrugs & keeps eating, disgusting the already terrified cast. The plane is still nosediving until a random light zaps the plane back to its normal flight pattern, allowing the jet to land safely.
The plane lands, and Chris explains that they are in Area 52 — except for Scott, who is in Area 51 and gets shocked with lasers. Chris thanks a coronel on the phone and jokingly says that it's good to have friends in "area 51 places,". Max & Staci laugh at the afflicted Scott, who is soot black & coughing.
There, he explains the challenge: Break into Area 51 and bring back an intact alien artifact. Team Chris and Team Amazon reach their respective sides of Area 51 and form plans to get across.
With Team Chris, Scott offers to go with Topher, which he obliges to. Alejandro then joins them, making a group of three. In the confessional, Alejandro says that he must figure out what Topher & Scott were talking about, to make sure that Topher or Scott aren’t pulling any tricks. Alejandro attempts to probe Topher again, but Max says that he’s found the base, which is protected by an electric fence. Alejandro puts his fist into his palm before going to check it out. He gets there, and Topher asks if it’s safe to cross. A bunny hops along the road, getting electrocuted by a laser and runs away, as Max says he's got a plan.
Team Amazon has found the gate as well, and Sugar tells Dawn to get her hands off her leg. Dawn says that she isn’t doing so, and they all notice she has a Gila monster on her legs, making them run away while it blows up by a mine. Sugar notices that they’re now in a minefield, earning glares from the rest of Team Amazon.
Max has told Team Chris the plan of attack; Throw rocks near the fence, so the lasers target said rocks, not them. Scott goes first, and he accidentally runs into a cactus. Topher & Alejandro manage to be more careful, hiding behind a rock near the fence. Max goes last, and he gets hit by a laser and launched over the fence before getting sucked into a tube. A worried Staci climbs the electric fence, while Scott, Topher, & Alejandro walk through an open door right next to the fence. Meanwhile, Team Amazon is in a quandary, as they’re stuck in a minefield. Dawn then says that she notices a path through, based on the auras of the area. They get through unscathed until the very end, where Sugar launches herself forward with a land mine. Both teams enter Area 51's secret warehouse at the same time.
In the warehouse, Staci is saying that the Black Ops have captured Max. On the speakers, Chris says that it’ll be hard to find an intact artifact, let alone Max, as Chris has set off the Black Ops security.
Sugar searches inside a box, complaining as she throws what she considers junk, hitting Zoey in the head. Zoey kicks a robot, which triggers an elimination process by ejecting a large gun, but it only falls stories below the house, with Jasmine staring at it dropping. Sugar finds a machine in which she becomes trapped, and Jasmine considers leaving her there to be stuck, but she eventually relents.
Staci once again asks Team Chris to help her find Max, which Alejandro suggests that Scott help her with, while Alejandro goes with Topher to find an alien artifact. Just as this is said, Topher kicks a large cube, dropping an alien in a container into Topher’s hands, shocking him, then Alejandro. Team Chris tries to catch the aliens, but they start to fly off, inducing a chase scene.
Max has been dropped into a giant closet-like area of the base. He finds an odd-looking white pod which he goes into, producing a clone version of him, who starts laughing evilly. Max says that he likes him, and they walk out of the room. Team Chris is still chasing the rogue aliens, and they end up colliding with Team Amazon. The aliens are right above the pile of people, and Sugar grabs an empty box, trapping one of the aliens in it. She then tells her team to book it, which they do. Staci tries to capture the second alien, but it flies away, blowing a raspberry. Max then sprints up, saying that he has an alien for them, gesturing to the Max clone. They accept the alien before chasing after Team Amazon.
Team Amazon is in a considerable lead and looks to clinch victory. A desperate Staci hatches a plan and tells everyone to jump forward onto a land mine. Team Chris begrudgingly does so, and they nearly get there, but Sugar throws Team Amazon’s artifact to Chris, winning for the second time in a row.
Vote for somebody on Team Chris, and feel free to come up with any plot points!
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2024.05.02 16:13 sprodigy TAXES (USA) - Am I leaving money on the table by not being married?

For context, I have two children with my fiancé. We've been together for 17 years and recently had kids, so we're pretty solid.
On to my question: I recently got a promotion at work. I am going to gross around $200K this year, maybe very slightly less. My fiancé does not work, but will probably go back once my son is slightly older. I have been filing head of household since we're unmarried. I took a look at the tax brackets for 2024 and noticed I am going to be in the 32% tax rate for Head of Household (starts at $191,950). If I was Married Filing Jointly my tax rate would be 22% (caps at $201k). The standard deduction for Married filing jointly is going up to $29,200, where as Head of Household will be $21,900.
Is it worth getting married to get the difference in lower taxes? My withholding status at work is "Single". If we get married and I change that, will I get more in my checks? Other things I consider are healthcare. My healthcare would go up from $77 every two weeks to $325 (since if we get married I have to put everyone on mine). There's also added prescription costs for me, such as EpiPen Jr, which were previously covered 100% by my wife's insurance. No idea what that will cost me (Aetna insurance).
We don't mind getting married, we just never saw value in it before. We're weird like that. But if we can financially make out better married, we'll do it. Any ideas?
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2024.05.02 16:12 hyenagames Building a Linux/Windows VM Server for my mother

My mother works in IT, and the Linux servers that she uses for testing stopped working after 10 years of using them. She then decided to build her own server, but she is not used to PC building aspects of it. She uses them to run Juniper VMs, and her old servers had 384GB of DD4 EEC RAM.
I am not familiar with Servers for VMS, so I would appreciate help from you all. All that I know is that it needs a lot of RAM and a High Core count.
A co-worker of hers sent her a list of the parts he used for his own home server, and I wanted to check with you guys about what parts would you recommend for her to buy:
Any suggestions for alternative options or other recommendations, or a guide of things I should learn from?
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2024.05.02 16:06 canontime Thoughts on Fraudulent Dasher Accounts

The Doordash Driver market is currently flooded with Dashers who normaly would not pass the on-boarding background check. I'm guessing they get through by using fake Social Security numbers, fake IDs, or some other way.
Doordash (the company) doesn't appear interested in addressing the issue at all. I imagine when the inevitable violent catastrophe happens (one of the purposes of the background check is to weed out violent criminals) Doordash will just play dumb.
At some point the IRS will realize that no one is paying taxes on all these accounts opened through fraudulent means and it will all come out in the open. Can't happen soon enough.
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2024.05.02 16:06 Apart-Awareness-4594 How to do well in GP: Solution

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Hey foodies! Ever wondered how those tasty treats in your pantry get their delicious flavors? Well, buckle up because Unilever's spilling the beans on their secret ingredient: Artificial Intelligence!
Picture this: instead of chefs slaving away in the kitchen, Unilever's whipping up new recipes with the help of super-smart AI models. 👩‍🍳 These digital wizards predict how new products will taste, feel, and even behave on factory lines—all without breaking a sweat! 💡
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Take Knorr's Zero Salt Bouillon Cubes, for example. 🍲 By harnessing the power of AI, Unilever crafted a sodium-free sensation that's just as tasty as the original—no salt shaker required! 🧂 ...( read more on our student newsletter)

2. Crime and Perception: Are People Reacting to the Wrong Alarm?🚨
Lawmakers have two main jobs: reducing crime and making people feel safe. But sometimes there's a big gap between what's happening with crime and how people feel about it.
For example, a Gallup poll showed that more Americans than ever—63 percent in 2023—think crime is a big problem, even though crime rates have actually been dropping. It's like thinking the house is on fire when it's just the toaster burning your toast.🍞 This gap between reality and what people think is a big deal. It affects what laws get made. Lawmakers don’t always look at what’s really happening; they also look at what people believe is happening.
So, when people feel scared about crime—maybe because of news reports about a rise in crime that isn't really there—lawmakers often feel pressured to act. This has led to some places passing tough laws that bring back the harsh punishments of the 1980s and '90s. They're trying to fix a problem that's already getting better... (read more on our student newsletter)

3. How TikTok's Chinese Owner Took Control 🇨🇳
TikTok’s Beijing-based owner ByteDance has been playing a game of tug-of-war with US regulators, trying to keep its hold on the popular app. But ByteDance seems to be winning the game, pulling TikTok closer into its grasp. 🏃‍♂️
According to whispers from current and former employees, ByteDance has been sneakily moving its staff into TikTok, especially those who speak Mandarin. It's like they’re building a secret TikTok army, spreading from China to the rest of the world. Chinese workers are popping up in TikTok offices worldwide, including the US.
There’s a lot of cloak-and-dagger stuff going on—people are spilling the beans anonymously because they're scared of getting caught. TikTok claims it’s not controlled by China, but insiders say decisions still come from there. Talk about a plot twist! 🕵️‍♀️🔍
Even simple things like picking music for ads need China’s approval. And there's been drama over what content gets the green light. It's a real-life soap opera! 🎶 TikTok’s been accused of being unfriendly to women and minorities, facing lawsuits over discrimination. Not a good look for the app's reputation. 👩‍⚖️( read more on our student newsletter)

4. Trash Talk: Landfills on the Hot Seat!
Forget blaming cows for methane—turns out it's our trash causing the stink! A new study reveals that landfills are belching out greenhouse gases at nearly three times the rate we thought! Talk about a stinky surprise! 😱
Scientists used fancy tech called imaging spectrometers to scope out the scene from above. No more risky business of wandering around with sensors—now they can fly over and get the scoop without breaking a sweat! The findings? Over half of the landfills they checked out were like methane volcanoes, spewing out more gas than a can of soda! And get this—the buildup of decades-old trash is cooking up a real "garbage lasagna" down there!
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2024.05.02 16:06 mrrrl50000 [OH] Employer Verification and PEO

I am in the process of onboarding for a very large US firm after my graduation this month. Everything has gone smoothly except for the verification of one of my previous employers. The background check company could not verify a restaurant I worked at in highschool so the firms onboarding team reached out to me. I provided W2s to show that I worked there. However, the restaurant used a PEO and the name on the W2 is not the name of the restaurant. The onboarding team seems sketched out by this but from what I can denote it’s rather common for small businesses. I am now worried that my offer will be rescind. Any insight?
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2024.05.02 16:06 doofus__hq Legal Name Changes are Exhausting

hello beautiful people i’m just stopping in here to complain a bit and see if anyone else is experiencing the same thing as me
pretty much, i’m a North Carolina resident and the process for a name change is so complicated here and for what. there’s so many forms and things you have to get done (like a legal background check from the FBI and finger printing??) and that’s just for the legal name change; getting your drivers license, social security, and birth certificate changed are all separate processes.
it’s just so exhausting and it feels set up to discourage you from doing it. not to mention the fees hidden everywhere. i’m really trying to get everything changed over the summer before i start college but who even knows if it’ll be done by then. i get checking to make sure you’re not an outlaw on the run, but it’s so frustrating to be someone only seeking a change that validates my personhood.
anyways. let me know if yall have dealt with the same stuff
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2024.05.02 16:01 mrrrl50000 PEO and Employer Verification

I am in the process of onboarding for a very large US firm after my graduation this month. Everything has gone smoothly except for the verification of one of my previous employers. The background check company could not verify a restaurant I worked at in highschool so the firms onboarding team reached out to me. I provided W2s to show that I worked there. However, the restaurant used a PEO and the name on the W2 is not the name of the restaurant. The onboarding team seems sketched out by this but from what I can denote it’s rather common for small businesses. I am now worried that my offer will be rescind. Any insight?
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2024.05.02 15:58 Contactunderground An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage at the Department of Energy Laboratory in the Santa Susana Pass

An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage at the Department of Energy Laboratory in the Santa Susana Pass
An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage at the Department of Energy Laboratory in the Santa Susana Pass
Contact Network History Project.
Joseph Burkes MD 2019

The Department of Energy Lab was just a few miles from our high desert CE5 research site.
SPRING 2006 PANORAMA CITY MEDICAL CENTER
It was a slow day in ambulance area. The patient and I were alone in an examining room. I was serving as “admitting officer.” I had been asked by the ER crew to evaluate a possible admission to the hospital.
The patient was an elderly African American man. The chart indicated that he was suffering from a kidney aliment. We were crammed into a tiny private exam room. There was barely enough space to squeeze a hospital stretcher on which the patient sat. Standard patient monitoring equipment covered two walls. A tall hospital swivel tray served as my desk for the evaluation. Decades before I had been an industrial toxicology medical consultant. As part of my special interest in occupational diseases I had acquired the habit of taking a detailed work history. I asked him what was his occupational status.
HE HAD WORKED FOR THE “GOVERNMENT.”
He told me that he was retired.
From what kind of occupation?” I asked.
“I worked for the government, “was his answer.
That somewhat vague reply got me interested. From countless evaluations. I had learned that people who worked for the postal office, the FAA or US Forrest Service almost never used the cryptic expression, “government work.” However, this is a designation sometimes used by those that worked in classified projects or for defense/intelligence agencies.
I asked him what specifically his job was. He replied that he had been a physical plant engineer at the Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory in Chatsworth, a high desert suburban town in the Northwest corner of LA County’s San Fernando Valley. The DOE has a wide range of responsibilities including developing nuclear weapons. The Chatsworth DOE facility understandably was kept under high security. It was originally constructed after World War Two and had carried out top secret research in space propulsion systems. It just so happened to be located a few miles away from the desolate high desert fieldwork site that my CE-5/HICE contact team had used when we started staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) in 1992. Our field laboratory was just a few hundred yards south of the Santa Susana Pass which connects Los Angeles to Ventura County.
The DOE lab was rumored to be the place where an anti-ballistic missile defense system known back in the 1980s as “Star Wars” had been developed. The installation was built south of the Santa Susana Pass which separates the suburb of Chatsworth from another “bedroom” community called Simi Valley. Most of the people who live in the area commute to the San Fernando Valley and other parts of Los Angeles to find employment. Many of our Kaiser medical group’s patients came from these towns.
Back in the 1990s, one of the investigators on my UFO contact team was also a colleague from our med group’s Family Medicine Department. His name is Dr. David Gordon. He is a contact experiencer. Without knowing of one another’s interest in flying saucers, he and I joined both MUFON and CSETI within a month of one another in the spring of 1992. He was so well respected by his patients and colleagues alike that he had received permission from his Family Medicine Chief to do an informal survey of UFO sightings. His patients and the Woodland Hills Kaiser Medical Center staff served as the study population.
Having a much respected family practice physician on my team turned out to be a bonanza when it came to acquiring intelligence concerning ongoing UFO sightings in the area. Whenever patients of Dr. Gordon heard about local sightings, they checked out the information and then passed it on to their personal physician. He then dutifully gave the sighting reports to me, his contact team coordinator.
One of Dr. Gordon’s patients was a retired carpenter who reportedly had been employed building the DOE base in the early 1950s. His patient said that they had literally “emptied out the mountain” to construct the lab. Apparently, this was done to make it secure from aerial attack. So much dirt had to be moved, that for 3 months according to the retired carpenter, a line of dump trucks several miles long were filled with earth removed from inside the hillside. To convey how strategically important this base was during the Cold War, I share the following additional information.
BASE HAD BEEN TARGETED FOR SOVIET NUCLEAR ATTACK IN CASE OF ALL OUT WAR
During the 1980s, I was an activist in the Physicians anti-nuclear weapons group called “Physicians for Responsibility (PSR). Our mission was to raise public awareness about the medical consequences of nuclear war and the nuclear arms race. We were part of an umbrella organization called “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War” that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for bringing Soviet and Western physicians together in our educational peace campaign. When the Soviet Union fell apart in the 1990s, thus ending the Cold War, our Los Angeles PSR office held a photographic exhibition called “Nuclear Los Angeles.” We showed pictures of the nuclear artifacts in Southern California, such as missile bases and fallout shelters from the 1950s and 60s. One of the photos was an image a Soviet strategic map used to designate targets in Southern California for nuclear attack if war broke out. There was a target located in the northwest corner of Los Angeles County. In clear Cyrillic letters it phonetically spelled out the name “Santa Susana.” It was the DOE lab in Chatsworth.
Another story told to Dr. Gordon by the retired carpenter that helped build the base reflects the strategic nature of the laboratory. His patient told my colleague that he required a security clearance to work underground at the base. He reportedly was only allowed to build labs and offices down to the eight floor underground. Below that level, a higher clearance was required. He wasn’t sure how far down the base went. That information was secret, but he guessed that it was at least another ten levels down inside the mountain.
I WAS FAMILIAR WITH THIS BASE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD
The Department of Energy research facility was a dirty and dangerous place to work. Press reports in the 1980s identified this site as one where several serious environmental accidents had occurred. Back in the 1950s a nuclear reactor at the base had a partial meltdown and plutonium was leaked into the surrounding environment. One isotope of plutonium (Pu-239) has a half-life of over 24,000 years, thus making it one of the most feared environmental contaminants. Over the years, the DOE lab was cited for many safety violations with the release of other toxins. Our LA chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility was very aware of these problems with DOE installation and worked in a coalition of environmental and anti-nuclear groups attempting to force the government to clean up the site.
Given this background information, when I evaluated the retired plant engineer from the base in 2006, I was eager to learn more about what went on there. He explained to me that his team of engineers kept the facility running properly by carrying out routine maintenance on the infrastructure at the facility. This included plumbing, electrical, and outdoor repairs.
AN AMAZING ENCOUNTER NEAR WHERE OUR TEAM OPERATED
Things were really slow in the ER that day so I thought there would be no harm if after my medical evaluation I told him about my special interest in UFOs. I asked him whether he had ever seen a UFO. His reaction was telling. With a concerned expression on his face, he turned his head from side to side to look around. I imagined that he was checking to see if anyone else besides me might be able might to hear what he was about to say.
“Yes I saw a UFO once,” was his answer. I asked him where the sighting had occurred. He replied, “It was at the base.”
We were totally alone in the tiny room, the glass sliding door was closed and a curtain allowed us privacy. Despite this, the patient had turned his head and looked around before he dared to the answer my question. I was eager to find out more about his sighting.
I mentioned to retired plant engineer that back in the 1990s I had been part of an investigative team that had a number of UFO sightings in the Santa Susana Pass. Our fieldwork site was about a few thousand yards from the DOE base perimeter. This information seemed to set him more at ease. He paused for a few moments and then I guess he decided it was safe to tell me his story.
ALARMS WENT OFF IN THE CONTROL ROOM
He wasn’t sure of the exact year that it happened. He knew that it was about fifteen years before our interview in 2006. It might have been in 1989 or 1990. He was on duty at the research lab when the alarms went off. It was late afternoon and the monitors indicated that there was a sudden loss of water pressure in the lines that supplied a several of the labs.
The facility had been built deep underground into the side of a mountain, but there were many structures on the surface as well. The retired engineer explained that on the top of the base enormous water towers supplied the entire complex. Pipes several feet across ran down from the storage towers along steep hillsides to the various labs. The mountain was composed of loose sedimentary rock, sandstone. Occasionally rockslides damaged one of these pipes. Given the distant history of a partial meltdown in a reactor with the release of plutonium, I surmised that keeping the labs supplied with coolant might be of great importance.
The plant engineer told me that a sudden loss of water pressure could only be addressed one way and he knew the drill. He and a co-worker grabbed machetes and a weed-whacker and went outside to check on the status of the water lines. Starting at the water towers, they followed the lines down the steep mountainside looking for a busted pipe. This was not an easy task. It was late afternoon, but it was still very hot outside. The water mains were partially covered with rocks and dirt. Desert plants with sharp nettles were everywhere and to top if off this was rattlesnake country.
SABOTAGE!
The maintenance engineers moved slowly because the loose sedimentary rock didn’t provide secure footing. Finally as the sun was setting, they found the busted pipe. Water was shooting upwards like a geyser. To their amazement the large conduit had been cleanly cut as if by a power tool! They had expected to see a jagged break in the water line, the kind that might come from simple corrosion or from falling rocks. The engineer stated that there was no doubt in his mind that damage had been done deliberately. It was sabotage!
As the engineers inspected the water main, they noted a strange soft humming sound. They looked up and not more than two hundred feet away was a rotating disc hovering close to the ground. It was metallic and about twenty-five feet across. My patient told me that he and his buddy were shocked. They stared at it in amazement.
They called security on the radio and explained the situation. They were told, “not to approach the UFO.” The retired engineer stated that getting any closer to the spinning saucer was the last thing he wanted to do. Armed security officers reportedly informed the men that they were coming down to check out the situation. However before they arrived, the saucer departed. I was told that from a hovering mode it pointed one side upwards and then started to climb slowly. After just a few seconds with a roar, the UFO accelerated at a tremendous speed and disappeared into the twilight.
The next day government security officials arrived and interviewed him at length. He could not recall what federal agency they said that they were from. Both men were required to make drawings of what they had seen. My patient and his co-worker were sworn to secrecy and were advised not to discuss the event.
When my interview with DOE engineer took place, he had been retired from the DOE for over a decade. He told me that his fellow witness had also retired and was living in Las Vegas. My patient said he was certain that his buddy would corroborate his sighting report. I thanked him and made final preparations for him to be admitted to the hospital.
DOE WAS LIKELY INVOLVED IN STAR WARS PROJECTS
Given the conflict-laden history of our planet’s military with UFOs, one can speculate why a flying saucer might penetrate a high security facility to carry out an act of sabotage. It should be remembered that in 1967, according to USAF missile personnel, over ten nuclear tipped rockets went “off line” (i.e. the missile could not be fired) while a red glowing UFO hovered over the front gate of the launch facility. In 2008 investigator Robert Hastings published the book “UFOs and Nukes.” In this detailed study he documents dozens of similar events from the testimony of service men that witnessed them. The event described to me in 2006 was not an isolated occurrence. It was one of many similar incidents in which UFOs penetrated secure US defense facilities.
The DOE lab in the Santa Susana Pass is known to have developed key technology in the US space program. Over four decades ago the space shuttle engines were reportedly tested at the Chatsworth DOE site. One of my patients told me that the rockets’ red glare could be seen across the entire San Fernando Valley when the tests were conducted at the crest of the Santa Susan Pass. The anti-ballistic missile program, rumored to have been developed at the DOE lab, theoretically could have been used to target and destroy flying saucers operating outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. A video taken by a US Space Shuttle mission suggests that this capability was more than just theoretical.
In his 1998 book “Confirmation”, author Whitley Strieber analyses the controversial NASA videotape made on space shuttle Discovery during mission STS-48. This video has been featured several times on national television. It displays what appears to be an unidentified flying object maneuvering outside of the Earth’s atmospheric envelope. Suddenly the UFO changes direction and few seconds later something dramatic occurs. What appears to be some sort of particle beam shoots up from below streaking by the exact location where the craft had been before it carried out its evasive maneuver. The incident transpired on September 15, 1991. The Space Shuttle Discovery was flying above Australia, approximately 1500 miles northwest from a secret US military base located at Pine Gap near Alice Springs. Strieber has provided a thorough analysis of the videotape by physicist Dr. Jack Kasher and imaging specialist Dr. Mark Carlotto. Their conclusion was that the prosaic explanation provided by NASA, that the UFO seen in the video was an ice chip, is simply not credible.
THE DISCLOSURE PROJECT WAS NOT TAKING NEW WITNESSES AT THAT TIME.
In 2006, I thought that the maintenance engineer’s account was of considerable value. I asked him if he would be willing to give public testimony about what he had observed. He told me that since he was retired and no longer worked for DOE, he thought that there should be no problem. I contacted Dan Willis of the Disclosure Project. I offered my help to bring forward what I believed was important new information from a witness that had encountered a UFO in the course of his work for the federal government. Dan informed me however that no new witnesses were being interviewed at that time.
I debated whether I could on my own videotape this retired engineer. In 2006, every two weeks I commuted between my ER job in LA and Northern California where my wife resided. Although I knew my patient’s narrative provided dramatic information concerning an act of sabotage allegedly done by a flying saucer, my personal situation didn’t allow me to produce a video of his testimony. I regret not being able to better document what I consider to be an important piece of UFO history. The incident had special significance for me. The flying saucer’s alleged act of sabotage occurred in the Santa Susana Pass approximately two years before our Los Angeles CE-5 team initiated contact work during the summer of 1992.
At that time, I was convinced that our fieldwork sightings in the Santa Susana Pass of red orbs, a golden globe, and other anomalous aerial phenomena, were all the results of using the CSETI protocols. The term Dr. Greer used was “primary vectoring.” However, I am now convinced that my assessment was mistaken. We didn’t attract flying saucers to Santa Susana Pass. This is because they had already been there in force for some time. The surveillance that our team experienced from men in civilian clothing with an obvious military bearing were likely triggered by a very reasonable security concern for the safety of the base. In addition, our team was buzzed by two powerful Blackhawk helicopters during a nighttime hike towards Rocky Peak that overlooked the DOE lab.
During the five years (1992-1997) of intensive field investigations involving staging HICE/CE5s, we repeatedly found ourselves in UFO hotspots adjacent to military instillations. Why did this happen? Were these merely coincidences, or was the intelligence behind flying saucers using us as part of some kind of larger plan? These are some of the questions I hope to address in further installments of “The Contact Network History Project.”
For additional Reports from the Contact Underground, the following links are provided:
Staging Human Initiated Contact Events adjacent to a high security research lab involved challenges of surveillance for my team. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/did-a-fateful-phone-call-trigger-the-appearance-of-blackhawk-helicopters-during-contact-work/
What if flying saucer intelligences had access to every witness’ full treasure chest of memories?
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/do-uap-intelligences-have-full-telepathic-access-to-every-witness-storehouse-of-memories/
My human initiated contact team had immediate results when we started fieldwork, but they were not what I expected.
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/mystery-lights-in-the-santa-susana-pass/
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2024.05.02 15:56 AggressiveCorner8497 Driver Background check information (UK)

Hi all, If anyone else is from the UK you might have run into this new background check submission and the problems it’s produced (friend and I both got our accounts banned despite being legit. RTW documents didn’t pass despite being born here).
Anyways, made a new account and it came back for some reason and that account was blocked again.
Third attempt and I made sure I sent every possible document and filled every single line on the criminal check form and so on. Was told today that DBS now have my information and it’s just a waiting game.
So can I assume that I’ve got over the initial hurdle with UbeSterling? Haven’t worked in almost a month now and feeling the pinch so just need a bit of reassurance lol. Haven’t committed any crimes so no concerned and all my submitted information has Green ticks on the Uber app.
Thanks.
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2024.05.02 15:55 Curious-Ferret-948 Is 4-5 references normal for an entry level job??

I'm applying for a job in the Healthcare field, just a temporary front desk receptionist. They are using skill survey to gather 3 references. They asked for 2 managers/professors/etc., and 1 coworker. Cool, I provided my mentor from school, my old manager from 2022, and old coworker. Mentor didn't answer, so I provided a manager from 2020. That's 3 references.
Now they're making up rules saying this was not enough. My manager reference from 2020 was too long ago, and I need an additional one from 2023-current. With my mentor its now 5 references...
Skillsurvey is ridiculous too, requiring 30 questions and 2 long paragraph answers about the candidate...
Is this normal? I also don't even know what location I'm working at yet even after a month of 30 training videos, 4 9am-5pm trainings, full background check, etc. I'm just at a loss with the hoops they're making me go through for an entry level job.
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2024.05.02 15:54 Contactunderground An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage at the Department of Energy Laboratory in the Santa Susana Pass Contact Network History Project.

An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage at the Department of Energy Laboratory in the Santa Susana Pass Contact Network History Project.
An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage at the Department of Energy Laboratory in the Santa Susana Pass
Contact Network History Project.
Joseph Burkes MD 2019

The Department of Energy Research Lab was just a few miles from our high desert CE5 research site.
SPRING 2006 PANORAMA CITY MEDICAL CENTER
It was a slow day in ambulance area. The patient and I were alone in an examining room. I was serving as “admitting officer.” I had been asked by the ER crew to evaluate a possible admission to the hospital.
The patient was an elderly African American man. The chart indicated that he was suffering from a kidney aliment. We were crammed into a tiny private exam room. There was barely enough space to squeeze a hospital stretcher on which the patient sat. Standard patient monitoring equipment covered two walls. A tall hospital swivel tray served as my desk for the evaluation. Decades before I had been an industrial toxicology medical consultant. As part of my special interest in occupational diseases I had acquired the habit of taking a detailed work history. I asked him what was his occupational status.
HE HAD WORKED FOR THE “GOVERNMENT.”
He told me that he was retired.
From what kind of occupation?” I asked.
“I worked for the government, “was his answer.
That somewhat vague reply got me interested. From countless evaluations. I had learned that people who worked for the postal office, the FAA or US Forrest Service almost never used the cryptic expression, “government work.” However, this is a designation sometimes used by those that worked in classified projects or for defense/intelligence agencies.
I asked him what specifically his job was. He replied that he had been a physical plant engineer at the Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory in Chatsworth, a high desert suburban town in the Northwest corner of LA County’s San Fernando Valley. The DOE has a wide range of responsibilities including developing nuclear weapons. The Chatsworth DOE facility understandably was kept under high security. It was originally constructed after World War Two and had carried out top secret research in space propulsion systems. It just so happened to be located a few miles away from the desolate high desert fieldwork site that my CE-5/HICE contact team had used when we started staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) in 1992. Our field laboratory was just a few hundred yards south of the Santa Susana Pass which connects Los Angeles to Ventura County.
The DOE lab was rumored to be the place where an anti-ballistic missile defense system known back in the 1980s as “Star Wars” had been developed. The installation was built south of the Santa Susana Pass which separates the suburb of Chatsworth from another “bedroom” community called Simi Valley. Most of the people who live in the area commute to the San Fernando Valley and other parts of Los Angeles to find employment. Many of our Kaiser medical group’s patients came from these towns.
Back in the 1990s, one of the investigators on my UFO contact team was also a colleague from our med group’s Family Medicine Department. His name is Dr. David Gordon. He is a contact experiencer. Without knowing of one another’s interest in flying saucers, he and I joined both MUFON and CSETI within a month of one another in the spring of 1992. He was so well respected by his patients and colleagues alike that he had received permission from his Family Medicine Chief to do an informal survey of UFO sightings. His patients and the Woodland Hills Kaiser Medical Center staff served as the study population.
Having a much respected family practice physician on my team turned out to be a bonanza when it came to acquiring intelligence concerning ongoing UFO sightings in the area. Whenever patients of Dr. Gordon heard about local sightings, they checked out the information and then passed it on to their personal physician. He then dutifully gave the sighting reports to me, his contact team coordinator.
One of Dr. Gordon’s patients was a retired carpenter who reportedly had been employed building the DOE base in the early 1950s. His patient said that they had literally “emptied out the mountain” to construct the lab. Apparently, this was done to make it secure from aerial attack. So much dirt had to be moved, that for 3 months according to the retired carpenter, a line of dump trucks several miles long were filled with earth removed from inside the hillside. To convey how strategically important this base was during the Cold War, I share the following additional information.
BASE HAD BEEN TARGETED FOR SOVIET NUCLEAR ATTACK IN CASE OF ALL OUT WAR
During the 1980s, I was an activist in the Physicians anti-nuclear weapons group called “Physicians for Responsibility (PSR). Our mission was to raise public awareness about the medical consequences of nuclear war and the nuclear arms race. We were part of an umbrella organization called “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War” that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for bringing Soviet and Western physicians together in our educational peace campaign. When the Soviet Union fell apart in the 1990s, thus ending the Cold War, our Los Angeles PSR office held a photographic exhibition called “Nuclear Los Angeles.” We showed pictures of the nuclear artifacts in Southern California, such as missile bases and fallout shelters from the 1950s and 60s. One of the photos was an image a Soviet strategic map used to designate targets in Southern California for nuclear attack if war broke out. There was a target located in the northwest corner of Los Angeles County. In clear Cyrillic letters it phonetically spelled out the name “Santa Susana.” It was the DOE lab in Chatsworth.
Another story told to Dr. Gordon by the retired carpenter that helped build the base reflects the strategic nature of the laboratory. His patient told my colleague that he required a security clearance to work underground at the base. He reportedly was only allowed to build labs and offices down to the eight floor underground. Below that level, a higher clearance was required. He wasn’t sure how far down the base went. That information was secret, but he guessed that it was at least another ten levels down inside the mountain.
I WAS FAMILIAR WITH THIS BASE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD
The Department of Energy research facility was a dirty and dangerous place to work. Press reports in the 1980s identified this site as one where several serious environmental accidents had occurred. Back in the 1950s a nuclear reactor at the base had a partial meltdown and plutonium was leaked into the surrounding environment. One isotope of plutonium (Pu-239) has a half-life of over 24,000 years, thus making it one of the most feared environmental contaminants. Over the years, the DOE lab was cited for many safety violations with the release of other toxins. Our LA chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility was very aware of these problems with DOE installation and worked in a coalition of environmental and anti-nuclear groups attempting to force the government to clean up the site.
Given this background information, when I evaluated the retired plant engineer from the base in 2006, I was eager to learn more about what went on there. He explained to me that his team of engineers kept the facility running properly by carrying out routine maintenance on the infrastructure at the facility. This included plumbing, electrical, and outdoor repairs.
AN AMAZING ENCOUNTER NEAR WHERE OUR TEAM OPERATED
Things were really slow in the ER that day so I thought there would be no harm if after my medical evaluation I told him about my special interest in UFOs. I asked him whether he had ever seen a UFO. His reaction was telling. With a concerned expression on his face, he turned his head from side to side to look around. I imagined that he was checking to see if anyone else besides me might be able might to hear what he was about to say.
“Yes I saw a UFO once,” was his answer. I asked him where the sighting had occurred. He replied, “It was at the base.”
We were totally alone in the tiny room, the glass sliding door was closed and a curtain allowed us privacy. Despite this, the patient had turned his head and looked around before he dared to the answer my question. I was eager to find out more about his sighting.
I mentioned to retired plant engineer that back in the 1990s I had been part of an investigative team that had a number of UFO sightings in the Santa Susana Pass. Our fieldwork site was about a few thousand yards from the DOE base perimeter. This information seemed to set him more at ease. He paused for a few moments and then I guess he decided it was safe to tell me his story.
ALARMS WENT OFF IN THE CONTROL ROOM
He wasn’t sure of the exact year that it happened. He knew that it was about fifteen years before our interview in 2006. It might have been in 1989 or 1990. He was on duty at the research lab when the alarms went off. It was late afternoon and the monitors indicated that there was a sudden loss of water pressure in the lines that supplied a several of the labs.
The facility had been built deep underground into the side of a mountain, but there were many structures on the surface as well. The retired engineer explained that on the top of the base enormous water towers supplied the entire complex. Pipes several feet across ran down from the storage towers along steep hillsides to the various labs. The mountain was composed of loose sedimentary rock, sandstone. Occasionally rockslides damaged one of these pipes. Given the distant history of a partial meltdown in a reactor with the release of plutonium, I surmised that keeping the labs supplied with coolant might be of great importance.
The plant engineer told me that a sudden loss of water pressure could only be addressed one way and he knew the drill. He and a co-worker grabbed machetes and a weed-whacker and went outside to check on the status of the water lines. Starting at the water towers, they followed the lines down the steep mountainside looking for a busted pipe. This was not an easy task. It was late afternoon, but it was still very hot outside. The water mains were partially covered with rocks and dirt. Desert plants with sharp nettles were everywhere and to top if off this was rattlesnake country.
SABOTAGE!
The maintenance engineers moved slowly because the loose sedimentary rock didn’t provide secure footing. Finally as the sun was setting, they found the busted pipe. Water was shooting upwards like a geyser. To their amazement the large conduit had been cleanly cut as if by a power tool! They had expected to see a jagged break in the water line, the kind that might come from simple corrosion or from falling rocks. The engineer stated that there was no doubt in his mind that damage had been done deliberately. It was sabotage!
As the engineers inspected the water main, they noted a strange soft humming sound. They looked up and not more than two hundred feet away was a rotating disc hovering close to the ground. It was metallic and about twenty-five feet across. My patient told me that he and his buddy were shocked. They stared at it in amazement.
They called security on the radio and explained the situation. They were told, “not to approach the UFO.” The retired engineer stated that getting any closer to the spinning saucer was the last thing he wanted to do. Armed security officers reportedly informed the men that they were coming down to check out the situation. However before they arrived, the saucer departed. I was told that from a hovering mode it pointed one side upwards and then started to climb slowly. After just a few seconds with a roar, the UFO accelerated at a tremendous speed and disappeared into the twilight.
The next day government security officials arrived and interviewed him at length. He could not recall what federal agency they said that they were from. Both men were required to make drawings of what they had seen. My patient and his co-worker were sworn to secrecy and were advised not to discuss the event.
When my interview with DOE engineer took place, he had been retired from the DOE for over a decade. He told me that his fellow witness had also retired and was living in Las Vegas. My patient said he was certain that his buddy would corroborate his sighting report. I thanked him and made final preparations for him to be admitted to the hospital.
DOE WAS LIKELY INVOLVED IN STAR WARS PROJECTS
Given the conflict-laden history of our planet’s military with UFOs, one can speculate why a flying saucer might penetrate a high security facility to carry out an act of sabotage. It should be remembered that in 1967, according to USAF missile personnel, over ten nuclear tipped rockets went “off line” (i.e. the missile could not be fired) while a red glowing UFO hovered over the front gate of the launch facility. In 2008 investigator Robert Hastings published the book “UFOs and Nukes.” In this detailed study he documents dozens of similar events from the testimony of service men that witnessed them. The event described to me in 2006 was not an isolated occurrence. It was one of many similar incidents in which UFOs penetrated secure US defense facilities.
The DOE lab in the Santa Susana Pass is known to have developed key technology in the US space program. Over four decades ago the space shuttle engines were reportedly tested at the Chatsworth DOE site. One of my patients told me that the rockets’ red glare could be seen across the entire San Fernando Valley when the tests were conducted at the crest of the Santa Susan Pass. The anti-ballistic missile program, rumored to have been developed at the DOE lab, theoretically could have been used to target and destroy flying saucers operating outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. A video taken by a US Space Shuttle mission suggests that this capability was more than just theoretical.
In his 1998 book “Confirmation”, author Whitley Strieber analyses the controversial NASA videotape made on space shuttle Discovery during mission STS-48. This video has been featured several times on national television. It displays what appears to be an unidentified flying object maneuvering outside of the Earth’s atmospheric envelope. Suddenly the UFO changes direction and few seconds later something dramatic occurs. What appears to be some sort of particle beam shoots up from below streaking by the exact location where the craft had been before it carried out its evasive maneuver. The incident transpired on September 15, 1991. The Space Shuttle Discovery was flying above Australia, approximately 1500 miles northwest from a secret US military base located at Pine Gap near Alice Springs. Strieber has provided a thorough analysis of the videotape by physicist Dr. Jack Kasher and imaging specialist Dr. Mark Carlotto. Their conclusion was that the prosaic explanation provided by NASA, that the UFO seen in the video was an ice chip, is simply not credible.
THE DISCLOSURE PROJECT WAS NOT TAKING NEW WITNESSES AT THAT TIME.
In 2006, I thought that the maintenance engineer’s account was of considerable value. I asked him if he would be willing to give public testimony about what he had observed. He told me that since he was retired and no longer worked for DOE, he thought that there should be no problem. I contacted Dan Willis of the Disclosure Project. I offered my help to bring forward what I believed was important new information from a witness that had encountered a UFO in the course of his work for the federal government. Dan informed me however that no new witnesses were being interviewed at that time.
I debated whether I could on my own videotape this retired engineer. In 2006, every two weeks I commuted between my ER job in LA and Northern California where my wife resided. Although I knew my patient’s narrative provided dramatic information concerning an act of sabotage allegedly done by a flying saucer, my personal situation didn’t allow me to produce a video of his testimony. I regret not being able to better document what I consider to be an important piece of UFO history. The incident had special significance for me. The flying saucer’s alleged act of sabotage occurred in the Santa Susana Pass approximately two years before our Los Angeles CE-5 team initiated contact work during the summer of 1992.
At that time, I was convinced that our fieldwork sightings in the Santa Susana Pass of red orbs, a golden globe, and other anomalous aerial phenomena, were all the results of using the CSETI protocols. The term Dr. Greer used was “primary vectoring.” However, I am now convinced that my assessment was mistaken. We didn’t attract flying saucers to Santa Susana Pass. This is because they had already been there in force for some time. The surveillance that our team experienced from men in civilian clothing with an obvious military bearing were likely triggered by a very reasonable security concern for the safety of the base. In addition, our team was buzzed by two powerful Blackhawk helicopters during a nighttime hike towards Rocky Peak that overlooked the DOE lab.
During the five years (1992-1997) of intensive field investigations involving staging HICE/CE5s, we repeatedly found ourselves in UFO hotspots adjacent to military instillations. Why did this happen? Were these merely coincidences, or was the intelligence behind flying saucers using us as part of some kind of larger plan? These are some of the questions I hope to address in further installments of “The Contact Network History Project.”
For additional Reports from the Contact Underground, the following links are provided:
Staging Human Initiated Contact Events adjacent to a high security research lab involved challenges of surveillance for my team. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/did-a-fateful-phone-call-trigger-the-appearance-of-blackhawk-helicopters-during-contact-work/
What if flying saucer intelligences had access to every witness’ full treasure chest of memories?
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/do-uap-intelligences-have-full-telepathic-access-to-every-witness-storehouse-of-memories/
My human initiated contact team had immediate results when we started fieldwork, but they were not what I expected.
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/mystery-lights-in-the-santa-susana-pass/
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2024.05.02 15:50 Otherwise-Job-1572 Dichlor/Bleach - Long Term

Background - after 2 years of struggling with bullfrog's "@ease" system, I drained and refilled my tub about two weeks ago and having been using the dichlobleach method. At this point I'm daily checking my PH and FC. PH has been super stable, and I add the proper amount of bleach to keep the FC in the 3-6 range. (I usually shoot for 6 every day.) The water is clear, there's no foaming yet. I'm very happy with the results vs. the stress that I was having fighting the "@ease" system.
Here's my question. I travel a lot for work. I can walk my wife through adding bleach when I'm gone, so that's not too bad. But what about a week of vacation, or a week where we're both gone? Do you shock the FC up super high so that it doesn't drift below 3 FC?
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2024.05.02 15:49 Contactunderground An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage in the Santa Susana Pass Contact Network History Project.

An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage in the Santa Susana Pass Contact Network History Project.
An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage in the Santa Susana Pass
Contact Network History Project.
Joseph Burkes MD 2019

The Department of Energy Laboratory was just a few miles from our high desert CE5 research site/
SPRING 2006 PANORAMA CITY MEDICAL CENTER
It was a slow day in ambulance area. The patient and I were alone in an examining room. I was serving as “admitting officer.” I had been asked by the ER crew to evaluate a possible admission to the hospital.
The patient was an elderly African American man. The chart indicated that he was suffering from a kidney aliment. We were crammed into a tiny private exam room. There was barely enough space to squeeze a hospital stretcher on which the patient sat. Standard patient monitoring equipment covered two walls. A tall hospital swivel tray served as my desk for the evaluation. Decades before I had been an industrial toxicology medical consultant. As part of my special interest in occupational diseases I had acquired the habit of taking a detailed work history. I asked him what was his occupational status.
HE HAD WORKED FOR THE “GOVERNMENT.”
He told me that he was retired.
From what kind of occupation?” I asked.
“I worked for the government, “was his answer.
That somewhat vague reply got me interested. From countless evaluations. I had learned that people who worked for the postal office, the FAA or US Forrest Service almost never used the cryptic expression, “government work.” However, this is a designation sometimes used by those that worked in classified projects or for defense/intelligence agencies.
I asked him what specifically his job was. He replied that he had been a physical plant engineer at the Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory in Chatsworth, a high desert suburban town in the Northwest corner of LA County’s San Fernando Valley. The DOE has a wide range of responsibilities including developing nuclear weapons. The Chatsworth DOE facility understandably was kept under high security. It was originally constructed after World War Two and had carried out top secret research in space propulsion systems. It just so happened to be located a few miles away from the desolate high desert fieldwork site that my CE-5/HICE contact team had used when we started staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) in 1992. Our field laboratory was just a few hundred yards south of the Santa Susana Pass which connects Los Angeles to Ventura County.
The DOE lab was rumored to be the place where an anti-ballistic missile defense system known back in the 1980s as “Star Wars” had been developed. The installation was built south of the Santa Susana Pass which separates the suburb of Chatsworth from another “bedroom” community called Simi Valley. Most of the people who live in the area commute to the San Fernando Valley and other parts of Los Angeles to find employment. Many of our Kaiser medical group’s patients came from these towns.
Back in the 1990s, one of the investigators on my UFO contact team was also a colleague from our med group’s Family Medicine Department. His name is Dr. David Gordon. He is a contact experiencer. Without knowing of one another’s interest in flying saucers, he and I joined both MUFON and CSETI within a month of one another in the spring of 1992. He was so well respected by his patients and colleagues alike that he had received permission from his Family Medicine Chief to do an informal survey of UFO sightings. His patients and the Woodland Hills Kaiser Medical Center staff served as the study population.
Having a much respected family practice physician on my team turned out to be a bonanza when it came to acquiring intelligence concerning ongoing UFO sightings in the area. Whenever patients of Dr. Gordon heard about local sightings, they checked out the information and then passed it on to their personal physician. He then dutifully gave the sighting reports to me, his contact team coordinator.
One of Dr. Gordon’s patients was a retired carpenter who reportedly had been employed building the DOE base in the early 1950s. His patient said that they had literally “emptied out the mountain” to construct the lab. Apparently, this was done to make it secure from aerial attack. So much dirt had to be moved, that for 3 months according to the retired carpenter, a line of dump trucks several miles long were filled with earth removed from inside the hillside. To convey how strategically important this base was during the Cold War, I share the following additional information.
BASE HAD BEEN TARGETED FOR SOVIET NUCLEAR ATTACK IN CASE OF ALL OUT WAR
During the 1980s, I was an activist in the Physicians anti-nuclear weapons group called “Physicians for Responsibility (PSR). Our mission was to raise public awareness about the medical consequences of nuclear war and the nuclear arms race. We were part of an umbrella organization called “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War” that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for bringing Soviet and Western physicians together in our educational peace campaign. When the Soviet Union fell apart in the 1990s, thus ending the Cold War, our Los Angeles PSR office held a photographic exhibition called “Nuclear Los Angeles.” We showed pictures of the nuclear artifacts in Southern California, such as missile bases and fallout shelters from the 1950s and 60s. One of the photos was an image a Soviet strategic map used to designate targets in Southern California for nuclear attack if war broke out. There was a target located in the northwest corner of Los Angeles County. In clear Cyrillic letters it phonetically spelled out the name “Santa Susana.” It was the DOE lab in Chatsworth.
Another story told to Dr. Gordon by the retired carpenter that helped build the base reflects the strategic nature of the laboratory. His patient told my colleague that he required a security clearance to work underground at the base. He reportedly was only allowed to build labs and offices down to the eight floor underground. Below that level, a higher clearance was required. He wasn’t sure how far down the base went. That information was secret, but he guessed that it was at least another ten levels down inside the mountain.
I WAS FAMILIAR WITH THIS BASE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD
The Department of Energy research facility was a dirty and dangerous place to work. Press reports in the 1980s identified this site as one where several serious environmental accidents had occurred. Back in the 1950s a nuclear reactor at the base had a partial meltdown and plutonium was leaked into the surrounding environment. One isotope of plutonium (Pu-239) has a half-life of over 24,000 years, thus making it one of the most feared environmental contaminants. Over the years, the DOE lab was cited for many safety violations with the release of other toxins. Our LA chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility was very aware of these problems with DOE installation and worked in a coalition of environmental and anti-nuclear groups attempting to force the government to clean up the site.
Given this background information, when I evaluated the retired plant engineer from the base in 2006, I was eager to learn more about what went on there. He explained to me that his team of engineers kept the facility running properly by carrying out routine maintenance on the infrastructure at the facility. This included plumbing, electrical, and outdoor repairs.
AN AMAZING ENCOUNTER NEAR WHERE OUR TEAM OPERATED
Things were really slow in the ER that day so I thought there would be no harm if after my medical evaluation I told him about my special interest in UFOs. I asked him whether he had ever seen a UFO. His reaction was telling. With a concerned expression on his face, he turned his head from side to side to look around. I imagined that he was checking to see if anyone else besides me might be able might to hear what he was about to say.
“Yes I saw a UFO once,” was his answer. I asked him where the sighting had occurred. He replied, “It was at the base.”
We were totally alone in the tiny room, the glass sliding door was closed and a curtain allowed us privacy. Despite this, the patient had turned his head and looked around before he dared to the answer my question. I was eager to find out more about his sighting.
I mentioned to retired plant engineer that back in the 1990s I had been part of an investigative team that had a number of UFO sightings in the Santa Susana Pass. Our fieldwork site was about a few thousand yards from the DOE base perimeter. This information seemed to set him more at ease. He paused for a few moments and then I guess he decided it was safe to tell me his story.
ALARMS WENT OFF IN THE CONTROL ROOM
He wasn’t sure of the exact year that it happened. He knew that it was about fifteen years before our interview in 2006. It might have been in 1989 or 1990. He was on duty at the research lab when the alarms went off. It was late afternoon and the monitors indicated that there was a sudden loss of water pressure in the lines that supplied a several of the labs.
The facility had been built deep underground into the side of a mountain, but there were many structures on the surface as well. The retired engineer explained that on the top of the base enormous water towers supplied the entire complex. Pipes several feet across ran down from the storage towers along steep hillsides to the various labs. The mountain was composed of loose sedimentary rock, sandstone. Occasionally rockslides damaged one of these pipes. Given the distant history of a partial meltdown in a reactor with the release of plutonium, I surmised that keeping the labs supplied with coolant might be of great importance.
The plant engineer told me that a sudden loss of water pressure could only be addressed one way and he knew the drill. He and a co-worker grabbed machetes and a weed-whacker and went outside to check on the status of the water lines. Starting at the water towers, they followed the lines down the steep mountainside looking for a busted pipe. This was not an easy task. It was late afternoon, but it was still very hot outside. The water mains were partially covered with rocks and dirt. Desert plants with sharp nettles were everywhere and to top if off this was rattlesnake country.
SABOTAGE!
The maintenance engineers moved slowly because the loose sedimentary rock didn’t provide secure footing. Finally as the sun was setting, they found the busted pipe. Water was shooting upwards like a geyser. To their amazement the large conduit had been cleanly cut as if by a power tool! They had expected to see a jagged break in the water line, the kind that might come from simple corrosion or from falling rocks. The engineer stated that there was no doubt in his mind that damage had been done deliberately. It was sabotage!
As the engineers inspected the water main, they noted a strange soft humming sound. They looked up and not more than two hundred feet away was a rotating disc hovering close to the ground. It was metallic and about twenty-five feet across. My patient told me that he and his buddy were shocked. They stared at it in amazement.
They called security on the radio and explained the situation. They were told, “not to approach the UFO.” The retired engineer stated that getting any closer to the spinning saucer was the last thing he wanted to do. Armed security officers reportedly informed the men that they were coming down to check out the situation. However before they arrived, the saucer departed. I was told that from a hovering mode it pointed one side upwards and then started to climb slowly. After just a few seconds with a roar, the UFO accelerated at a tremendous speed and disappeared into the twilight.
The next day government security officials arrived and interviewed him at length. He could not recall what federal agency they said that they were from. Both men were required to make drawings of what they had seen. My patient and his co-worker were sworn to secrecy and were advised not to discuss the event.
When my interview with DOE engineer took place, he had been retired from the DOE for over a decade. He told me that his fellow witness had also retired and was living in Las Vegas. My patient said he was certain that his buddy would corroborate his sighting report. I thanked him and made final preparations for him to be admitted to the hospital.
DOE WAS LIKELY INVOLVED IN STAR WARS PROJECTS
Given the conflict-laden history of our planet’s military with UFOs, one can speculate why a flying saucer might penetrate a high security facility to carry out an act of sabotage. It should be remembered that in 1967, according to USAF missile personnel, over ten nuclear tipped rockets went “off line” (i.e. the missile could not be fired) while a red glowing UFO hovered over the front gate of the launch facility. In 2008 investigator Robert Hastings published the book “UFOs and Nukes.” In this detailed study he documents dozens of similar events from the testimony of service men that witnessed them. The event described to me in 2006 was not an isolated occurrence. It was one of many similar incidents in which UFOs penetrated secure US defense facilities.
The DOE lab in the Santa Susana Pass is known to have developed key technology in the US space program. Over four decades ago the space shuttle engines were reportedly tested at the Chatsworth DOE site. One of my patients told me that the rockets’ red glare could be seen across the entire San Fernando Valley when the tests were conducted at the crest of the Santa Susan Pass. The anti-ballistic missile program, rumored to have been developed at the DOE lab, theoretically could have been used to target and destroy flying saucers operating outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. A video taken by a US Space Shuttle mission suggests that this capability was more than just theoretical.
In his 1998 book “Confirmation”, author Whitley Strieber analyses the controversial NASA videotape made on space shuttle Discovery during mission STS-48. This video has been featured several times on national television. It displays what appears to be an unidentified flying object maneuvering outside of the Earth’s atmospheric envelope. Suddenly the UFO changes direction and few seconds later something dramatic occurs. What appears to be some sort of particle beam shoots up from below streaking by the exact location where the craft had been before it carried out its evasive maneuver. The incident transpired on September 15, 1991. The Space Shuttle Discovery was flying above Australia, approximately 1500 miles northwest from a secret US military base located at Pine Gap near Alice Springs. Strieber has provided a thorough analysis of the videotape by physicist Dr. Jack Kasher and imaging specialist Dr. Mark Carlotto. Their conclusion was that the prosaic explanation provided by NASA, that the UFO seen in the video was an ice chip, is simply not credible.
THE DISCLOSURE PROJECT WAS NOT TAKING NEW WITNESSES AT THAT TIME.
In 2006, I thought that the maintenance engineer’s account was of considerable value. I asked him if he would be willing to give public testimony about what he had observed. He told me that since he was retired and no longer worked for DOE, he thought that there should be no problem. I contacted Dan Willis of the Disclosure Project. I offered my help to bring forward what I believed was important new information from a witness that had encountered a UFO in the course of his work for the federal government. Dan informed me however that no new witnesses were being interviewed at that time.
I debated whether I could on my own videotape this retired engineer. In 2006, every two weeks I commuted between my ER job in LA and Northern California where my wife resided. Although I knew my patient’s narrative provided dramatic information concerning an act of sabotage allegedly done by a flying saucer, my personal situation didn’t allow me to produce a video of his testimony. I regret not being able to better document what I consider to be an important piece of UFO history. The incident had special significance for me. The flying saucer’s alleged act of sabotage occurred in the Santa Susana Pass approximately two years before our Los Angeles CE-5 team initiated contact work during the summer of 1992.
At that time, I was convinced that our fieldwork sightings in the Santa Susana Pass of red orbs, a golden globe, and other anomalous aerial phenomena, were all the results of using the CSETI protocols. The term Dr. Greer used was “primary vectoring.” However, I am now convinced that my assessment was mistaken. We didn’t attract flying saucers to Santa Susana Pass. This is because they had already been there in force for some time. The surveillance that our team experienced from men in civilian clothing with an obvious military bearing were likely triggered by a very reasonable security concern for the safety of the base. In addition, our team was buzzed by two powerful Blackhawk helicopters during a nighttime hike towards Rocky Peak that overlooked the DOE lab.
During the five years (1992-1997) of intensive field investigations involving staging HICE/CE5s, we repeatedly found ourselves in UFO hotspots adjacent to military instillations. Why did this happen? Were these merely coincidences, or was the intelligence behind flying saucers using us as part of some kind of larger plan? These are some of the questions I hope to address in further installments of “The Contact Network History Project.”
For additional Reports from the Contact Underground, the following links are provided:
Staging Human Initiated Contact Events adjacent to a high security research lab involved challenges of surveillance for my team. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/did-a-fateful-phone-call-trigger-the-appearance-of-blackhawk-helicopters-during-contact-work/
What if flying saucer intelligences had access to every witness’ full treasure chest of memories?
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/do-uap-intelligences-have-full-telepathic-access-to-every-witness-storehouse-of-memories/
My human initiated contact team had immediate results when we started fieldwork, but they were not what I expected.
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/mystery-lights-in-the-santa-susana-pass/
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2024.05.02 15:48 haphazardwizardofoz I studied the 6-step user onboarding flow for Loom, the $1.5 billion company. Here's what I found.

Loom is as simple a product as it gets. It's a classic example of a single-point SaaS that does one thing VERY well - creating short, screen-sharing videos. Since the task is well-defined, the user onboarding flow for Loom is also pretty well-defined.
There are just 6 steps the user has to take to go from zero to the AHA moment. These 6 steps are embedded in a checklist which is automatically marked completed when the relevant action is taken by the user.
Step 1: User creates a Loom account - The user starts by answering questions related to his use case. Loom uses progress bars to help users visualize how far along in the journey they are. It also prompts the user to create a workspace, join an existing workspace or invite co-workers. This ties into their PLG approach because the more people use Loom, the more chances they can convert freemium customers to paying customers.
Step 2: User Installs Loom - Loom gives the user two choices on how to record their first video - download the extension or download the app. Creating a video is a key activation metric. This step, although seems trivial, is crucial to get the user to record the first Loom. It also gently nudges the user to click on the chrome extension since its lower friction and is easier to install.
Step 3: User records first Loom video - Loom does a step by step walkthrough for its users to help record their first video - the AHA moment. Progress bars are used for users to visualize their journey to the AHA moment. The progress bar ends with a CTA to record another video. The main checklist on the left is automatically updated with the corresponding user action.
Step 4: User shares Loom with others - This ties into their PLG efforts where a single share can build large-scale brand visibility for Loom without any extra effort on their part. This is why this step is part of their onboarding. Loom uses modals to enable users to share their videos with other people to trigger their PLG efforts & boost awareness & expansion revenue.
Step 5: User invites colleagues to Loom - This is another growth lever for Loom as their revenue is tied into the number of users at a workspace using Loom. Loom takes a bottoms up PLG approach. The more the number of users, the more revenue Loom generates. Loom uses a modal here to get people to invite their colleagues & introduce Loom to them.
Step 6: User becomes customer & upgrades subscription - The main dashboard shows the primary 6-part completed checklist. It has an upgrade button to convert freemium users to paying customers. And another button to invite people to Loom.
I've made a short slide of Loom's entire onboarding flow with corresponding product screenshots & notes on how it's optimized. I've found that visually presenting these ideas can be pretty powerful so if you're interested, you can check that out here.
I hope you guys found it useful! Lemme know your thoughts & if there's anything I missed?
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2024.05.02 15:45 haphazardwizardofoz I studied the 6-step user onboarding flow for Loom, the $1.5 billion company. Here's what I found.

Loom is as simple a product as it gets. It's a classic example of a single-point SaaS that does one thing VERY well - creating short, screen-sharing videos. Since the task is well-defined, the user onboarding flow for Loom is also pretty well-defined.
There are just 6 steps the user has to take to go from zero to the AHA moment. These 6 steps are embedded in a checklist which is automatically marked completed when the relevant action is taken by the user.
Step 1: User creates a Loom account - The user starts by answering questions related to his use case. Loom uses progress bars to help users visualize how far along in the journey they are. It also prompts the user to create a workspace, join an existing workspace or invite co-workers. This ties into their PLG approach because the more people use Loom, the more chances they can convert freemium customers to paying customers.
Step 2: User Installs Loom - Loom gives the user two choices on how to record their first video - download the extension or download the app. Creating a video is a key activation metric. This step, although seems trivial, is crucial to get the user to record the first Loom. It also gently nudges the user to click on the chrome extension since its lower friction and is easier to install.
Step 3: User records first Loom video - Loom does a step by step walkthrough for its users to help record their first video - the AHA moment. Progress bars are used for users to visualize their journey to the AHA moment. The progress bar ends with a CTA to record another video. The main checklist on the left is automatically updated with the corresponding user action.
Step 4: User shares Loom with others - This ties into their PLG efforts where a single share can build large-scale brand visibility for Loom without any extra effort on their part. This is why this step is part of their onboarding. Loom uses modals to enable users to share their videos with other people to trigger their PLG efforts & boost awareness & expansion revenue.
Step 5: User invites colleagues to Loom - This is another growth lever for Loom as their revenue is tied into the number of users at a workspace using Loom. Loom takes a bottoms up PLG approach. The more the number of users, the more revenue Loom generates. Loom uses a modal here to get people to invite their colleagues & introduce Loom to them.
Step 6: User becomes customer & upgrades subscription - The main dashboard shows the primary 6-part completed checklist. It has an upgrade button to convert freemium users to paying customers. And another button to invite people to Loom.
I've made a short slide of Loom's entire onboarding flow with corresponding product screenshots & notes on how it's optimized. I've found that visually presenting these ideas can be pretty powerful so if you're interested, you can check that out here.
I hope you guys found it useful! Lemme know your thoughts & if there's anything I missed?
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