Charlie's wife getting paid for a made up position at Occ Med?
And then there's Charlie's wife whose performances and absences go untold in her job at Occupational Medicine.
COMMENT:
Will this turn out to be yet another Beth Sellers scandal?
And then there's Charlie's wife whose performances and absences go untold in her job at Occupational Medicine.
COMMENT:
Will this turn out to be yet another Beth Sellers scandal?
Comments
Convenient. Incestuous. But purely coincidental and no conflict.
KInky.
February 21, 2016 at 4:15 PM
Ha, Charlie is doing way better than you financially. He can communicate any way he wants and still make millions. Rich Marquez may be gone but he can count his millions as well. It is time for you to learn the rules, there are only two types of people at the labs, lions and gazelles, Rich and Charlie are lions and lions are the kings of the jungle and gazelles like you are just lunch. Since the contract change the labs are only about making money and that is all and it will never ever...and I do mean ever go back, and the sooner you realize this the sooner you to can also turn into a lion. There is big money to made in the labs if you play the game right.
February 21, 2016 at 5:54 PM
I guess you didn't hear that it has already ended. The LLC model is dead, by DOE's own claim. Your trumpeting about "lions and gazelles" simply shows how simplistic and naive, and divorced from actual events, your tiny brain is. The real "lion" here is the American public, who are not as stupid as you, and who see a scam and mean to delete it.
"I guess you didn't hear that it has already ended. The LLC model is dead, by DOE's own claim"
No way, California and New Mexico will never allow the LLC model to die, too much money at stake. The lab bureaucracies will never allow the LLC model to die, again too much money at stake. In the end all they have to say is if the labs lose the LLC model the cowboy scientists will become completely out of control and the argument WILL work. You say the American public is not as stupid as we think, you are a fool, we made up the memes of a cultural of spies, a cultural of theft, and a cowboy culture, and guess what...they bought all of it and thus LLNL was turned into a for profit company, after that a bunch of lions/people got very rich and a bunch of others got marched out of the gates. As Charlie says follow the money because that is the only reason the labs exist and this will never change. There is no going back now.
February 21, 2016 at 10:40 PM
Actually, you are the one who is stuck while everyone else wants to go forward.
Was the Occ Med position posted as an external opening?
How many applicants were there for the position?
Was the PD custom designed for only one applicant?
Was it a new position, or a backfill on a recent vacancy?
Who was the hiring authority?
How many applicants were interviewed for the position?
Was the hiring package different from other comparable positions?
How were annual reviews of job performance handled?
What are the observations of co-workers on differential treatment within the peer group?
Nepotism and unfair favoritism for management relatives at LANL??? OMG!!! This has never happened before!! And obviously it never happens in corporate America!! Hand out the torches, so we can all set our hair on fire and run around!! What an unwelcome upset to our naive idyllic view of our little island in the world.
February 26, 2016 at 7:23 PM
Look I understand good old fashioned nepotism where you fill the jobs with family and friends but LANL takes everything step further where you create a plethora of new jobs that never existed before just for these people. 2.00PM gives a fairly accurate picture of what often see, with excessive numbers of people who come in every summer that have absoutly nothing to do, so when they do come into work all they can do is text, talk, play games, google, tweet, shop or whatever. In many ways it would better if they do not show up since they would not get in the way. Mind you these are not STEM students but students in the bureaucratic part of the lab and every year there are more and more of them. One sad thing is that there are real students that come out to work hard and contribute but there less and less of these every year and the dead wood folks are deliberately driving them out.
March 1, 2016 at 10:10 AM
Look in the scheme of things this is nothing. She does not not need the money as Charlie must be making close to 1.5 million a year, so this must be a hobby job.
Also compare it to 1.5 million and it is in the noise. Does it really matter how money at LANL is spent? The public does not cares about what is done in LANL and it should be pretty obvious by now that government doe snot care either. In many ways the see the labs as a drain on the real defense work of the nation.
March 1, 2016 at 7:53 PM
Well, you had it mostly correct until that last inane comment. If the public does not care, how can they see the labs as a drain? You contradict yourself and that always leads to invalidating ones entire viewpoint.
March 1, 2016 at 8:54 PM"
Since when does contradicting oneself invalidate an argument on a blog?
This post is about featherbedding workers which is a common method of graft used by organizations like the mafia who force people to use their services.
March 2, 2016 at 4:05 PM
Because we would rather take your lunch away from you, junior. Now give it to us, or we'll beat you up after school!
March 2, 2016 at 4:05 PM"
I think we have discussed this before but what happens at LANL will happen at LLNL.
If LANL goes non-profit than LLNL will go non-profit. If LANL stays for profit than
LLNL will stay for profit. Remember that LANL was said to the be out of control cowboy culture lab that had to be punished, privatized, run by Bechtel/UC and the workforce reduced, so what happened to LLNL, that exact thing but only worse with the RIF. So it is written so it will be done. LLNL is just a reflection of LANL, so read this blog closely to see your future.