Taken from an earlier post:"Word on the street is ULM had a off site meeting this weekend to discuss the cutting of another 500 employees and the restructuring of the laboratory. I believe they called it a 100 day plan. You'll probably see entire groups or division collapse into one another along with building consolidation. Also the janitors had a meeting with Russo this week and he told them there would be more cut backs. So all you EBA's get ready to learn how to clean toilets."
I believe the statement was something to the effect of, "we are continually looking for ways to save money and as the buildings go away so will the jobs and with that the people and this doesn't mean only custodians.
Anyone who has more input please post the facts here. If this meeting actually took place the 100 days to termination of 500- 535 more employees coincides with one of ULM's LLNS new-hires that promised or should I say guaranteed they'd have LLNL's man-power dilemma under control by June of 2008. It seems they're a person of their word. I'm assuming Monday is the 100th day and counting. That should put the next 535 employees out the gate between June 25 and June 28th.
So the question is. When is Geroge going to tell the people of LLNL the grand plan, how will people be chosen and how will they be notified. I would hope they'd give these people at least 90 days notice since they need time to find jobs and get their finances in order before departure?
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I wonder how many people at LLNL will die from stress and high blood pressure before 2010?
Anyone keeping count?
You are right about the stress. Firing threats have been going on for so many months now I don't quite remember what feeling normal is like.
Georgie cares about you!
He cares about your safety and he will never do anything to harm us. We are his extended family, remember?
NNSA screwed us by taking the contract away from UC ($8 million/yr from the Lab's budget) and giving it to LLNS ($46 million/yr). Moving from a public manager to a private manager set the destruction of LLNL in motion. Then throw in the federal budget cuts to NNSA and DOE, and you've got a flipping train wreck at LLNL... We could have survived if UC had stayed solo in running the Lab, it would have been tight, but we've weathered major budget and program cuts before in the 1990s... the difference this time, the added cost of LLNL moving into the private sector and much higher labor/benefit (retirement and medical, etc) cost.
So blame the idiots in 311 not 111.
Exactly. That is why the SMS rate increased 26% from February to March. Need to keep the LDRD and SMS heroin going to the scientists.
Need a part made in the shops? Forget it. A little construction estimating and execution? Sorry. Lawn mowed? Only NIF. Backlog on repair to lighting systems is over 400 WIZ tages. Good luck on A/C stuff this summer. You get the picture...
Just glad I took the VSSOP and can watch the train wreck from afar...
Anyone keeping count?
I know one that ended up in ER and another that did not make it. It's already happening.
That has some merit, but misses the fact that this fiasco could have been predicted earlier and mitigated if there was someone left in Lab management with some real guts and business knowledge, ..... not just "yes" women and men. It may be too late now, but the only one to really blame is George and his selection of staff and advisors. The Lab suffered bad times in the past, but back then there was real management depth and wisdom, and hard decisions were made early while they still had a chance to work. The George eqo doesn't let him see his own short comings, which leads to poor selection of fellow managers and management decisions. Now we all have to live with his errors. It starts and ends with the management and the individuals put in key management positions, especially the business side! Miller and Moses are not business or management or people smart......but then again they are physicists so they feel they can do anything!
Now you can really worry.
My boss said it wasen't because of my work but because of their miscalculation of head count !
Only one month ago we had a group meeting and the PAD director said the FT employees are the future of the laboratory. I wasted a year at the lab with emotions up down and around and now out. What to do ?