My Personal Story
I Install a Radar Shield
I knew that there was a shielded room in the building I worked in, and believed that I could work in it safely. I asked my supervisor if I could move my office into the shielded room, but my request was refused. Then I had a brilliant idea: I could protect myself from radar most of the time by covering the walls of my office cubicle with hot water heater insulation! I was angry, and installed the insulation without asking my supervisor for permission. Thankfully, this solution worked! Hot water heater insulation looks like bubble wrap with an aluminum foil backing. Radar cannot penetrate aluminum foil.
However, the organization I was in was reorganizing, and I was going to have a new supervisor in September 2002, but he would not let me move my “radar protection shield” into the new office I was going to move into. Hot water heater insulation looks ugly on the walls of an office cubicle, so I was an embarrassment to management. I had to get the union involved, and finally, with the union’s help, I was able to convince management to allow me to move my office into the shielded room, but this did not occur until mid-November 2002, after getting very sick from several weeks of radar exposure in the unshielded office. I had used up all of my sick leave.