From the Huffington Post Why Workplace Jargon Is A Big Problem http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/work-words_n_5159868.html?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business When we replace a specific task with a vague expression, we grant the task more magnitude than it deserves. If we don't describe an activity plainly, it seems less like an easily achievable goal and more like a cloudy state of existence that fills unknowable amounts of time. A fog of fast and empty language has seeped into the workplace. I say it's time we air it out, making room for simple, concrete words, and, therefore, more deliberate actions. By striking the following 26 words from your speech, I think you'll find that you're not quite as overwhelmed as you thought you were. Count the number that LLNLs mangers use. touch base circle back bandwidth - impactful - utilize - table the discussion deep dive - engagement - viral value-add - one-sheet deliverable - work product - incentivise - take it to the ...
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LANL Report:
In the most recent review of the lab’s performance, dated Dec. 6, the NNSA slashed the performance bonus paid to the lab’s managers, arguing they had failed to meet the agency’s requirements for “ahead of schedule performance” on the project, which the lab had said earlier would be operational by 2011.
It is partially occupied, but equipment installation for the laboratory space is ongoing. The lab’s management team, led by corporate giant Bechtel and the University of California, had claimed it was entitled to a $700,000 performance bonus for its work on the office building and lab, but NNSA only agreed to $176,000.
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Gotta love watching the Bechtel pigs at the top of the LLC's "for-profit" management chain secretly fighting for their executive bonus loot while the hard working employees who do the hard lifting to met these PBIs get.... NOTHING!!!!
I see LDRD gets a negative ranking. What for it did not say.
If NNSA thought they could kill it off, they would do so immediately. They may try again to end it at some later date.
People seem to be expressing themselves fine enough. Not like this blog has stalled like the already-moribund LANL VSP blog.
April 6, 2012 8:28 PM
This is the LANL Blog. We thought we would move in just like Anastasio, McMillan, and King Knapp moved into our house. Thanks for the accommodations, the pajamas, robe, newspaper, couch, dog, bed, and Blog are great!
How is not fair process? I thought the AD's pick what they want. The rest is competed with like a 8% success rate.
10:34 AM seems a little early to be drunk but that is your choice.
April 7, 2012 7:03 PM
Really?? Did you absolutely have to include that last part?? You are what's wrong with our society. Can't disagree without being disagreeable. Sad.
Imagine the CEO of Intel coming out saying, "We make excellent processors. I'm real pleased with that. But why again are we wasting all this money on chip design?"