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Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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Also keep in mind that a change in administration could quickly lead to a change in philosophy/policy.
Well, 2 out of 4 isn't bad for government work, right?
Firing the people will make it smaller and less expensive. Treating workers like crap isn't going to make anything safer or more secure though.
The 20-30% reduction is projected for the entire nuclear weapons complex, not individual labs
$4,500 would be closer to 40% anyway.
These plans are DOA.
O'bama will appoint others (hopefully not former military) and they will do something else.
This plan has no constituency, least of all in the complex. The puppets Miller and Anastasio mouth their support as their strings are pulled, but they to are short timers.
It's to late now and I don't think SPSE or UPTE could have done a darn thing about this transition. That decision was made way above their level and the employees have NO say, period. This transition is what they people in DC wanted and I am sure ten years from now you'll all be informed. I don't think it was the correct decision but it's done. The country will pay in decades to come and may in fact never be the same again.
The final staffing numbers are going to be much worse. Try a 40% reduction in lab staffing and substitute a figure of 5 years to get there instead of a decade. The NNSA labs are now primed for a very rapid reduction in jobs.
SPSE should legally find a way to force LLNS to give all new employees a disclosure statement revealing their plans to lay off 20-30% of the workforce. This statement should be attached to any offer letter LLNS sends out.
You might want to compare US gas prices with prices in other major world markets. You might begin to think that we're just "catching up."
Catching up to what? A repressed society of eat, sleep and work buffoons with no funds to have fun. No life. Just a slave to your employer to where all you can afford to do and or even look forward to doing is coming to work so that you can socialize, simply because on the weekends you have no money to put in your tank to go see anyone or do anything? Yeah, that's living the good life isn't it. No wonder these people have time to start wars. If you call that catching up then I don't want any part of it.
The most unfortunate thing about this is, we did it to ourselves by allowing NAFTA and becoming part of the global economy. To heck with that crap. I say its time to become totally independent of the world and tell them to go to hell.
I doubt most of Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, etc. would agree with the dismal picture you paint.
On the flip side are the immigrants that come to the US from the countries you do refer to, that work two, three or more jobs to survive here. I haven’t heard them complaining about not having “a life.” In fact just the opposite. Are they wrong, or does your logic need some review? Could it be that this is still the best country in the world, despite its flaws?
Issues or whining?
My logic requires no review at all and I for one have no intention of working two to three jobs to have a car, home and food on the table. If that's what it takes to "LIVE" then screw it. You're better off dead than to be a slave to corporate America.
As far as I'm concerned forty hours a week is more than enough time donated to the cause, that cause being earning a wage which will only get you by payday to pay day. If we'd take the time to think about our time here on earth we’d actually discover how little time we have for fun or what I’d call a decent life.
We spend eight hours a day on the job and for many of us we spend another four hours a day in commute traffic. That's twelve hours a day out of our life gone, with no real satisfaction to be had. After twelve grueling hours at work and on the road we get home at ~ 5:00 PM and have exactly four hours to get dinner ready, eat, exercise, shower, and then it's time to hit the sack. There goes sixteen hours out of the twenty-four hours a day. This leaves us eight hours of which seven hours are spent sleeping if you're lucky. Then it's up at 4:00 AM to prepare for another grueling twelve hours of the “so called life” . So, where exactly is there a life here? None of what I just described except for eating and sleep do I consider a life, and even those events are just necessities. This regimented form of life goes on for forty years until someday you realize that you've really only lived LIFE for ten of these forty years and that wasn't much of one. So, out of forty years we've spend 3/4 of that time devoted to slave labor governed by corrupt politicians, cooperate America’s greedy and an economy that sets the cost of living so high that your governed wages will never allow you to have a "life of leisure or happiness" at all, unless of course your job is your happiness. I surely hope that's not the case.
Regardless I sure as heck am not going to work a double shift or two jobs to have the bare necessities. That being the case is there any doubt why people go postal. I have no doubt at all and expect to see more of it as we suffer through this recession / depression for the next 13-17 years.
Here's where another song comes to mind. "Take This Job and Shove It". The bottom line is the scenario I described above is what 99.9 % of Americans do. This IS NOT LIFE at all. It's BS !
You forgot. You have two days to do your chores and all the honey do's. Now that's life. Then there's vacation at Disneyland with a million other out of control rug rats. No headaches here. Enjoy.
Please - don't wait! Do it now. Shove this job! It'll save a job for one of the more dedicated, producing employees. I'm sure you and your lame attitude won't be missed.
The truth hurts doesn't it. I really hated to bring reality to the surface but facts are facts. Enjoy you regimented NO life society of worker bees.