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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We call it Riding the Gravy Train.
What, no high-foot LIFE program?
Got any openings? How about posting the address we should apply to?
What is SLAC and why should LLNL pay for it?
Is SLAC paid with overhead dollars? Where is the value added? Has someone looked into this?
Who is paying for SLAC and why are they paying for it? What is done at SLAC that is so valuable? If there was real value to such a thing that the private market would pay for it. What kind of people work at SLAC?
SLAC is mostly funded by Office of Science. SLAC performs a wide variety of projects these days, wich tend to focus around basic research. They are still involved in High Energy Physics. They run one of the new space telescope projects. They also do quite a lot of basic materials research using various exotic "light sources". One of these, the Linac Coherent Light Source, uses the old "2-mile accelerator" to produce short pulsed, extremely high brightness x-rays which are used to probe materials for the basic atomic and molecular mechanisms for important processes. This is useful for a wide variety of studies, including solar energy, designing new catalysts, biosciences, medicine, etc, etc, etc. Some of this is paid for by actual "paying customers" like pharmaceutical companies.
Office of Science pays for these studies because it's their mission to advance, and because these are things that may someday be important to all us.
The people who work at SLAC are pretty similar to those who work at LLNL. They're a little less public-service oriented, and a little more science-geeky (in my experience). They are also less "disciplined" and a little more informal, because they are not as tightly regimented as LLNL is (by DOE).
That's not what I hear. I hear SLAC are the smarties, LBNL are next smarties, and then LLNL.
The people who work at SLAC are pretty similar to those who work at LLNL. They're a little less public-service oriented, and a little more science-geeky (in my experience). They are also less "disciplined" and a little more informal, because they are not as tightly regimented as LLNL is (by DOE)."
"May be important for us?" What you mean by you us Mr scientist? LLNL is bad enough but why on heavens good green earth, sun, solar systems, galaxy, local group should the US taxpayer be billed for more geeks to play in sandboxes? Wow just wow! At the very least why is SLAC not run by a LLC like LLNL, at least there would be some non-government corporate control that would drastically reduce the waste and provide for real accountability. Government funding for science is not the solution to our problems; government funding for science is the problem.
Don't fret though, commuting from the Livermore Valley to Page Mill is suicide, and affordable housing isn't within 100 megaton blast radius of SLAC,
And ignorance is bliss
August 26, 2014 at 11:09 AM"
Ever read Ayn Rand?
Wow.
https://news.slac.stanford.edu/announcement/all-employee-memo-lcls-director-announcement