Yeah right. And that was a warning because it was in relation to the suggested "retaliation? against Sternberb so that "Rafa",Rafael Lemaitre, would be mollified, "the access and office privileges of a certain RA can be reconsidered with due consideration of Rafa's concerns".
As far as a hostile work environment, well boo-hoo. He does something most others in his profession see as wrong and supports a view that most see as invalid, and he expects not to get heat? Whiner.
Well, it is against the law to harrass or create a hostile work environment based upon a person's religion and the email's are a smoking gun to that aspect, however, since Sternberg was not an employee the OSI could not get involved. But you can bet your donkey that, had Sternberg been an employee, the Smithsonian would have been out a few bucks.
So you consider having a sponsor "special treatment"? I believe the rules at the Smithsonian covered that. That is why Coddington was the sponsor. He had to be. It is apparent that the people there at SI did not know their own rules and eventually stumbled upon them.
>>> Jonathan Coddington 10/05/04 1l:OlAM >>> He does have a supervisor--the Chair, by default, if no one else. Everybody, always, has a supervisor.
Now he used the word supervisor and not sponsor, but since we all know that Sternberg was not an employee at SI, supervisor must mean sponsor. Or they are in big trouble.
The short of this exchange seems to be that you are as apologetic for these emails as the global warming scammers are apologetic for their emails.
If his religion affected his professional reputation to to him injecting it into his work, which reflected poorly on all others there? It's fair game.
So you consider having a sponsor "special treatment"?
It's a privilege to be an RA. It requires an SI sponsor. His died. Without a sponsor, he would not be renewed as an RA because RAs basically have to be re-sponsored every few years, and obviously nobody there wanted to put their reputation on the line to sponsor him. But one person did offer to sponsor him just to keep him from being a creationist martyr. That's special treatment.
Now he used the word supervisor and not sponsor, but since we all know that Sternberg was not an employee at SI, supervisor must mean sponsor.
RAs are supervised, mainly by their sponsors. His died, so sponsorship and supervision defaulted to the Chair.
The short of this exchange seems to be that you are as apologetic for these emails
The result of this exchange is although many people at the SI didn't like him, no adverse administrative action was taken against him due to his beliefs, or even due to his misbehavior at the Journal or for his mishandling of artifacts. Like a black female cripple in a government job, he was basically untouchable due to political considerations.