Adamson

MEMORANDUM ***

Because the parties are familiar with the facts and procedural history, we do not restate them here except as necessary to explain our disposition. Adamson worked at Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, a United States Department of Energy (DOE) facility which was managed and operated by Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company (LMITCO), which employed Adamson. After repeated disagreements with her immediate supervisor, Sharon Collins, Adam-son walked off the job on December 10, 1996, and orally communicated her intent not to return. Although Adamson claims that there was a constructive discharge and contends that there is a factual issue about whether she actually quit on December 10, nothing in her complaint or in the *717 record before the district court when it dismissed the case suggests that Adamson intended to return to work after that date.

Adamson was responsible for reviewing documents connected with the operation of nuclear reactors and the facilities in which they are located. She alleges that her difficulties with Collins began after Adam-son identified control errors in documentation, and Collins refused to correct the errors.…