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 The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills.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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Did you intentionally use the double negative, thereby apparently killing your own point? Proofread!!
So do the LANL managers and Bechtel get more money?
"DOE Office of Enforcement issued a Notice of Intent to Investigate recent hazardous electrical energy events and potential deficiencies in implementing hazardous energy assessment and control requirements at the Los Alamos National Laboratory."
http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/05/f22/Enforcement%20Notice%20of%20Intent%20to%20Investigate%2C%20Los%20Alamos%20National%20Security.pdf
5-8-15: "LANL electrical systems were being probed before burning accident"
http://www.abqjournal.com/581839/news/lanl-electrical-systems-were-being-probed-before-burning-accident.html
LANL had a long history of numerous electrical near-miss accidents before the most recent one. NNSA did nothing serious about this, and then a near fatal one happened. The lingering issue is will there now be real consequences to LANL.
Yes like a contract extension and huge bonus. NNSA has to no choice but to reward LANS and that is how it is going to be.
Is LANS getting the extra year?
"Review of the management processes applicable to this work revealed procedures and policies are in place to govern electrical maintenance work. However, it has been demonstrated by this and other events at LANL in recent history that these procedures and policies are often applied at the minimum level possible to execute work, or in some cases not used at all."
LANS lost a year off of the current LANL contract for its contribution to the WIPP incident and shutdown. How in any way that is defendable to Congress can NNSA give LANS a contract extension the next year after a damming statement like the one above. Where's POGO and the other watchdogs that so criticized UC's management of LANL.
JAIT Report: "This report neither determines nor implies liability."
"And the band played on"