LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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I doubt Chu will be able to hold his position in DOE much longer. He's become an embarrassment to Obama, who is facing a tough re-election campaign.
Dr. Chu is about to take part of the fall for the Solyndra-gate fiasco and be "thrown under the bus".
DOE is a turkey pen. The stumblebum bureaucrats humble the best.
Time to eliminate the -- in the inimitable style of Governor Rick Perry -- "ah, ah, ah, what was that third one........oh, yeh, the DOE".
Its staff is indeed forgetable.
Take the Nuclear weapons complex to a new agency and junk the remainder.
The organization is asked to do far more than it is capable of.
November 15, 2011 10:12 PM
I completely disagree. The problem is that the "organization" has been relegated to a profit organization with the bar (PBIs) so low that it is no longer being challenged. The analogy is the Manhattan Project assigned to perform validation of Newton's Laws using "shoes that grip", management getting bonuses and flashy sports cars for every test or analysis that is performed, and oversight going from one person (General Groves) to several thousand wind-tipped suits (NNSA).
Chu may not have sent thousands to their deaths and evaded falling bombs by seconds, but my guess is, he is simply too self-assured to be much affected by the opinions of those posturing before him. For he has learned to control himself.
As we competent few know and the hoi polloi still wonders, "Who is John Barth?"
November 23, 2011 12:41 PM
Only warmed-over pseudo-intellectual hippies care. No one else gives a crap. Chu is out along with Obama.