Anastasio Reorganizes LANS
With 3-months left at LANS, Anastasio forms a "Bechtel" Principal Associate Directorate (PADCAP) and "selects" a Bechtel Manager without posting the position. It appears the "lame duck" Anastasio has begun his pardons and favors. Come one, come all from Bechtel to join PADCAP.
SUBJECT: Organizational Restructuring
Today, I am announcing a new senior leadership position - Principal Associate Director for Capital Projects (PADCAP) - and a restructuring that will shift the project management functions from the Project Management & Site Services (ADPMSS) directorate, together with the directorate for Environmental Programs (ADEP) in its entirety, to the new PAD organization.
I have selected Paul Henry as the PADCAP. Paul is a Bechtel senior manager who brings 32 years of construction and enterprise management experience to the Lab. He will relocate from Pueblo, Colorado, where he has served most recently as project manager on the megaproject to safely destroy the stockpile of deadly mustard chemical agent at the Pueblo Chemical Depot.
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Hmm, capital project expertise to help manage CMRR construction and deployment. What is so shocking about that?
This is a clear indication that Bechtel has taken over LANL. You can guarantee that the board of governors (led by Pattiz) had their pockets lined with money on this decision. You can also bet that MacMillan (the new Director) also cleared the way for this. It's sad to see LANL being ravaged and pillaged while Anastasio is laying on his back in the Bahamas.
Hey - it's no bid deal! They just needed to find a job for Paul Henry so they could make some promotions at the Pueblo Chemical Depot.
Plus, this will fatten up Henry's retirement package.
The resemblance between Pattiz and Max Headroom is uncanny. And they are both radio and TV personalities. You gotta look the part to become famous I guess. What has this guy done other than get "under the table money"?
We, that work, are just pawns!
We, that work, are just pawns!
March 19, 2011 5:48 PM
Not if you are at the top of your profession and doing fantastic work and enjoying it and infecting your coworkers with your enthusiasm. Otherwise you are part of the problem. Who would you rather be around? Just a word of advice from one of your colleagues (not management) who wishes to remain anonymous. Believe it or not, you are largely in charge of your own life.
Given that a huge, politically connected, corrupt, profit hungry CONSTRUCTION company now runs the NNSA "research" labs, why should this recent action by Mikey that creates yet more upper management bloat be a surprise to anyone?
They can pay for all the expensive Bechtel managers in this new LANL Directorate by simply raising the overhead rates on existing projects even higher.
Besides, Mikey doesn't have to worry about the terrible mess he has left behind. He probably has his tickets already booked for a summer vacation on the French Riveria. Heck, he'll probably get a free ride to Southern France on one of those luxurious Bechtel corporate jets that the NNSA lab profit-fees help pay for. Riley Bechtel treats his little 'Bechtel Bee-yatches' well!
March 19, 2011 9:42 PM,
First post on this topic, but I disagree on your assessment that we are in charge of our own lives.
Most people at the lab are there because they prefer the steady salary, benefits, and job security. They do not want to be in charge of their own lifes. They want to be in a sheltered environment where the only thing they have to worry about is what to watch on TV when they get home.
March 23, 2011 12:50 AM
You may be correct. Let me amend my comment to say that "you are largely in charge of your own life, IF YOU CHOOSE TO BE". Your comment is a sad testimony to the loss of intestinal fortitude of those who enable and guide our country's nuclear deterrent. If you give up, your enemy wins without firing a shot or risking anything. Where is the self-respect, not to mention the fight for your professional ethics and your family's future, in that?
I can see it now... hordes of highly paid Bechtel good ol' boy executives will be hired into in this new Directorate at LANL. Why don't they just go ahead and call it the Directorate of Corporate Carpet-Baggery.
Heck, they might as well put this new Bechtel-fied Directorate in charge of the total lab. Construction management seems to be the main vision for the lab at this point. Sad, indeed.
I'm sure there were a lot of "hands were greased" to GIVE this Bechtel Executive this job. I note this guy led "megaprojects" but none were mentioned. Are you telling me that Anastasio just suddenly realized that the Lab required a Principal Associate Director for Construction (PADCON) just 3-months before his departure. Anastasio had no integrity when he arrived and certainly did not gain any while he was here. What I fault him most for is apparently leaving McMillan and Knapp behind for us to deal with.
This new Bechtel-ized Directorate for Capital Construction will undoubtably become the biggest, most powerful Directorate at LANL with the highest paid managers (all from Bechtel of course). The cost for it will be passed along as another overhead tax on existing research projects that are already being starved of funds by the enormous increase in overhead burdens since the "for profit" LLC took over.
Meanwhile, we are getting memos at LANL that the science-based funding situation is so bleak for this summer that summer students are to be officially warned that their jobs may not have any funding to support them!
We aren't a science lab any longer -- that should be fairly clear by now to just about anyone left at LANL.
Gotta love that picture that was posted last week on the LANL home page showing our new Bechtel overlord of capital construction.... Bechtel construction hard hat and all!
Bet they doubled this guys current Bechtel VP salary and are giving him all types of perks to get him to come run the new PAD of capital construction at LANL. Creating this huge, new bloated bureaucracy of highly paid Bechtel managerial implants should do wonders to increase the already out of control overhead rates at LANL.
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