Director George Miller will hold an all-hands meeting Jan. 17 to discuss the workforce restructuring process, his vision of the future, the strategies that will help accomplish that vision and Millers perspective on the opportunities and challenges facing the Laboratory in the coming year.In addition, he will discuss the allocation of the federal budget, future workforce restructuring and the compensation increase package.The meeting will be at 10:30 a.m. in the Bldg. 123 auditorium. It also will air on LabTV, channel 2, and is available on streaming video at CNN Live Online or Fox Live Online found on My Page on MyLLNL.
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"future work force restructuring"
This tells me the employees of LLNL can expect this year after year after year until LLNL is down to a manageable size of contract personnel who have no benefits, no 401k and are hired to do a job for a wage.
Welcome to corporate America where the goal is to work you until your dead, "on the job" all of which is beneficial to "them".
January 10, 2008 7:48 PM,
No 401k or benefits? Only the uneducated would work under those conditions. Well, unless you pay them exceptionally well.
"NIF director has his act together."
You're kidding, right? NIF depends upon institutional subsidies. I hope you like the landscaping instead of getting a raise.
You're kidding, right?
Your pay raises did not get absorbed by NIF's landscaping, but they may have gotten absorbed by the new contractor LLNS and those millions of dollars they are paying a bunch of worthless bozo's. It isn't as if we already didn't have 50% more managers than we needed when we were under UC. So if you're going to blame someone for not getting a pay raise you'd better look at those management fees we had to come up with. Who knows, many George will have good news for us on the 17th. Then everyone can go back to work and forget all the corruption that'll going on behind the scenes while you're being targeted. If you think the RIF's are going to be over in April, think again. This is a day to day forever changing workforce at their will, time and place.
your raise is going to be used for the VSIP
"your raise is going to be used for the VSIP January 12, 2008 6:37AM"
That's a wonderful thought. Why not take the VSIP cost out of the LLNS management fee's and their big bonus checks since they have proven to be a worthless as boobs on a bore hog as far as I'm concerned.
LLNS has done absolutely nothing since they've take over except reap havoc upon the "blue collar workers" since their friggin arrival. If I were running LLNL, UC / LLNS ULM would be the first one's escorted out the gate by an armed security guard and my only hopes would be they'd get nasty about their removal so appropriate actions commensurate to the level of misbehavior could be immediately rendered.
And if the raises were handed out, what would they be, 1 to 2%?
On a similar note, I don't know about the rest of you, but my standard of living has dropped quite a bit this year.
As far as raises, even under UC, the difference between excellence and mediocrity is about 1%.
Mediocre performers get 1%; great performers about 2!
If George really wants to cut costs and improve the Lab, he should look at the front row in the auditorium during his all hands meeting and say "You're fired."
If you want to help make ULM look bad, don't take the VSIP (or VSOP). Don't make it easy for them to make up a budget shortfall while they continue to collect their large salaries.
At a staff meeting last week we were told that the new LLNS management personnel each received a $125K relocation allowance for coming to LLNL. Anyone want to take up a contribution to pay them the same to leave?
January 13, 2008 8:34 AM
Maybe we can have an extra set of armed personnel with a list of names of who they want to booted that day at the gates come Monday morning where LLNS ULM will report directly to a building where they too will be given their last rights and sent home, forever. Oh, I forgot one other caveat. They'll be required to return of their bonus checks and reimburse the budget the $125K relocation allowance before departure that day even if the have to mortgage their new estates they so comfortably moved in to. Do we care if that cost you your credit rating or forced you into bankruptcy. NOT A BIT. Get along little doggy. Getta- Along.
Expect more delays of getting into the gates on the morning of Jan 16th, 2008
125k? Really? The taxpayers need to know about that. That is many times the average yearly salary of a family in the US, and the taxpayers shouldn't have to fund that.
12.5k? Maybe someone read it wrong.
I did not see it in writing, but I also heard it was $125K--plus a job for your spouse if needed. BTW, $12.5K won't pay for much of a move these days.
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