I was talking to a few people at LANL today and they heard that drug testing will start soon at LLNL, that is right after they determine what the penalty for being positive of an illegal drug will be.I'll bet it will be immediate dismissal without a chance to fight the finding. Don't forget, there are many ways to find drugs in your body and not all of them are blood and urine. So if you're a user, the VSSOP is still available. Might want to think about that. Notification could come on a moments notice and without warning.
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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30% per year of L/Q population to be tested. Penalty for failure will include a last chance agreement, which is better than current LANL practice (which is you are fired).
No ULM here. Just figured that showing all dopeheads the gate would the corect thing to do. You can have them at your facility.
For a doobie? Where you from Frankestien, Crystalnacht?
This is California, not Brownshirted Munich
Let he who is without sin.....
LANL blog had quite the discussion on this. The false positive aspect was brought up.
You really want to handcuff a Q cleared scientist who had too many seeds on his lunch burger?
You better darn well tell them when you take the test before they discover it. I'd be preparing an extensive list directly after you finish reading this and have it ready to go. All drugs, legal or not.
All those forms you filled out for getting that Q clearance included a lot of words giving away a lot of your human rights. Or did you not notice that little fact? DOE can and will run you through the mill and say you failed no matter what the "facts" are if they want to. Drug test, lie detector, witnesses, whatever they care to use. No real protection from them faking the results in their favor either.
This has been true for a long time, so how about worrying about something a bit more timely?
It is illegal to do drugs- and the people who do so anyway are often iffy on performance. My group (LANL) lost a coke head/drunk, who was hardly ever working... And the infamous meth-house girl would have been caught by drug tests, maybe at hiring before she did any harm.
If hundreds have to go from the National labs- might as well start with the dopers.
Yes it is, because it is wasting money and impacting morale.
I am not aware of any security professional across the NWC that would say this is where they would spend their next incremental dollar for security.
It's a CYI thing and a means of cutting people in a time of need. That need is now. Better shave your head so they can't get a hair sample.
Anyone think that there may be a class action suite brought against management for "bait and switch?" Our contract with the new contractor that I signed then should be voided, my standing with UCRP reinstated, then I or anyone should be allowed to make a decision to sign on or not, under the new rules.
Protesting too much about it is probably "due cause" right now.
Next stop - polygraphs.
Actually, it's your employment contract. And it's not the Director, but the Secretary of Energy that decided this one.
Mostly, I think that its ironic that someone who works in the business of weapons and/or surveillance (thus, indirectly in the business of intelligence and counterintelligence) believes that they should have some kind of special right to privacy. You're in the wrong line of work!
BTW - when the LLNS polygraph rumor gains momentum here's the LANL blog experience with it: http://lanl-the-rest-of-the-story.blogspot.com/2007/05/truth-about-lie-detectors-by.html. Another much ado about nothing regardless of the lousy science behind lie detection.
If you want to do drugs, find a job somewhere else.
FYI, LANL's program is more law enforcement than DOE. They do way more testing and are quick to react.
So long NNSA