On the 22nd and 23rd LLNL employees should line the road to the ( west gate ) and applaud those workers who are being "escorted" off the site. This simple gesture will allow your fellow employees a final opportunity to hold their heads high and know that their dedication, hard work and loyalty to the country was appreciated and will not be so EASILY FORGOTTEN!
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 get Livermore, Pleasanton, and Dublin city officials out there to see their tax-base preparing to depart.
What the employees pay into the tax base is peanuts compared to the taxes they get for strutures on site. If they lose at one end they simply make up their loss by raising the taxes on LLNL at the other end and these cities are all happy.
They won't even know you are gone and even if you lose your home, cars , etc there will always be someone there to scoop it up at a really cheap price. The bank doesn't care nether. You've been paying that interest for decades so they made their money up front. Now they get the house back and sell it for more to another fool and make those interest payments again. The banks and government have this all figured out so they will always win and you lose no matter what happens. It's a cruel world. Again, the RIF'fies departure won't be noticed.
R-i-i-ght. They're more interested in sending people here than filling the ?? vacancies they already have in the US and around the world.
Makes perfect since to me.
http://www.bechtel.com/whats-hot.html
You are going to hang out over there on Lab time? Very risky move.You may hate management and this layoff but getting yourself fired doesn't serve any purpose. But then again, maybe you want to get fired or just don't care in which case, more power to you.
I hope ULM would be stupid enough to fire someone for that. There are lawyers who'd love to take on that case.
When this layoff is completed, maybe they will publish a lessons learned and figure out how to do it better next time. But with NNSA making some byzantine rules and LLNS trying to make it cheaper, I would expect the next round to be swifter and more brutal.
Dang, it was nice place to work way back when.
Yes because it's in the Lab contract.
"Yes because it's in the Lab contract."
Check out the discussion about severance and the contract near the end of this topic
http://llnlthetruestory.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-do-you-feel.html