So Parney got fired for being a people person and Bret Knapp took his as hatchet man. What's the word on layoff and how soon are we going to start shit-canning people. Christmas is coming soon or are we going to wait until after Thanksgiving?
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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Is this kind of stuff just to drive hits? Is it malice? Or simply confusion?
Because as you can see by the additional post it is happening and it is coming unless you are running around LLNL with blinders on or having smoke blown up your auss by management.
WOW! Precision down to the "ones" column...you're good.
That closes the doors around 2019...we'll see. If you're right I owe you a coke!
That type of normal churn has nothing to do with the big RIF packages you are discussing.
November 1, 2013 at 10:37 AM
The doors will never close completely. You'll always have bio-med and global security which are VITAL to national security. NIF on the other hand is just a toy to verify everything we know already works and will continue to do so as long as you do your maintenance and upgrades. No matter what I would expect to see smaller labs as time goes on doing far less than they are now.
It is a sad environment now as compared to previous years.
We have to take one day at a time!
This above comment is equally true in labs like Sandia in Livermore! Managers without the proper technical backgrounds, beware!
Poster November 1 @ 2:04 am
You said you know 3 people were given the "RIF". and poster @ 2:04am said he was laid off last month, do they receive severance pay package from the Lab for laying you off? Please let us know.
Other than the general malaise that the lab seems to be suffering from what prompted your departure?
I'm not the one who posted that but I'm pretty sure that I remember seeing the severance pay package listed in the Lab's official personnel policy and procedures. So receiving severance is standard, not optional.
"Other than the general malaise that the lab seems to be suffering from what prompted your departure?"
1) NIF went bankrupt and could not support me. Fine, the budget was decimated and that meant downsizing scale and scope.
2) But at about the same time, the rest of the lab went almost as bankrupt from "sequester". Nothing going on anywhere, except maybe in GS, there is no money and there is too much uncertainty.
3) It's nearly impossible to get involved with GS projects right now, if you're an outsider, it's an old-boy's network that has closed ranks.
4) Not really interested in spreading fractions of myself among multiple small GS projects anyways, in a PI-driven mix that changes all the time. That's not what the lab does well, and I don't see a long-term future in it.
5) The sort of work I like to do is increasingly not being done at the lab, and I don't see anything that will stop that inertia in the future.
6) All signs point to things getting worse, not better. There is no strategy or vision, and management is in reaction mode and seems unable to plan a path forward.
7) Morale is horrible, and it became a depressing place to work.
8) The furlough fiasco pushed me over the top, especially since I was not part of TCP1. I was cleaning my office by the time Parney announced he was leaving.
Some of the key draws for working at the lab in the past were job security and a strong sense of mission, and when those are taken away, you realize that there are lots of things going on outside the gates that are at least as interesting if not more interesting, perhaps pay better, and have growing opportunities on an upward track, rather than dimishing opportunities on a downward track.
TCP1 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Have fun collecting that next year.
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You will soon learn what a truly brutal executive looks like. Knapp will be finishing his managerial "education" at LLNL so that he can then move back to LANL as McMillan's replacement in a year or two. It's a sick, sick, sick situation that is destroying what's left of the US nuclear weapon labs.
Now that's funny.
Bret Knapp is like the Marine Corp..
How dare you insult the greatest military organization in the world.
Bret Knapp is like the Marine Corp..
How dare you insult the greatest military organization in the world.
November 7, 2013 at 9:36 AM
I think he meant "marine corpse" i.e., dead fish.