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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TCP1 is being used as a perk for Bechtel people. You will have to do some investigation to get more proof than has already been put forth on this blog, but it is real and it is a threat to the health of the fund.
True, but less so for TCP1 retirees.
May 6, 2016 at 3:26 AM
It's not "cheating on their own policy." It's violating explicit wording in the Prime Contract. It is NNSA who should be "taking them on."
As the money starts to run out, retirees could be subject to reductions in their pension they have already been receiving, some for many years. Imagine, being age 77 and being told your monthly payment is going from 4500 a month to 2500 a month. Good luck with that. There will be no incentive for future contractors at LLNL to expend costs to manage a pension plan that very few people will be part of and as time goes by, as the last person retires and turns out the lights, it will eventually become a white elephant.
The UC pension terms and conditions cannot be changed by law after one retires from UCRP it has a higher standard of legal protections because it is a non profit plan, and employees are still funding it, it is open ended unlike TCP1.
Good Luck TCP1'rs, you should be suing the Bechtel corporate raiders for setting you up in that losing proposition.
May 18, 2016 at 2:23 PM
Correct, which is one reason they are not called "pensions."
Let's be clear here - there is NO part of TCP2 that is a pension.
Discussion over.