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It looks like the stress of having to do those dirty deeds may in fact be getting to our leader. His presentation was delayed until tomorrow. If anyone gets the facts from this enlightening talk please be sure to post the FACTS here, soon after the presentation.
Now we wait for George Miller to step up to the plate with FACTS and see how things are viewed from the top down. Just maybe they'll give us _real numbers / body count_, which_classifications_are these unlucky ones coming from, and the exact_departure dates_for those selected individuals. At least tell us what month of what year this will be over. If we're going to do this again next year, FY-09, than at least tell us now so we can prepared ourselves accordingly. We need _cold hard honest facts_ with no ability to read between the lines, but it must be the truth.
It looks like the stress of having to do those dirty deeds may in fact be getting to our leader. His presentation was delayed until tomorrow. If anyone gets the facts from this enlightening talk please be sure to post the FACTS here, soon after the presentation.
Now we wait for George Miller to step up to the plate with FACTS and see how things are viewed from the top down. Just maybe they'll give us _real numbers / body count_, which_classifications_are these unlucky ones coming from, and the exact_departure dates_for those selected individuals. At least tell us what month of what year this will be over. If we're going to do this again next year, FY-09, than at least tell us now so we can prepared ourselves accordingly. We need _cold hard honest facts_ with no ability to read between the lines, but it must be the truth.
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Reason is due to a $25M issue that is from unexpected tax >, > cost associated with employees under LLNS, NNSA/DOE taking back some of the funding etc. Laying people off helps part of the $25 M issue (maybe $10 M?) but more needs to be done to get the numbers down. Ed talked about working smarter, and having our org being structured to be more efficient. Layoffs expected to be done within the next 2 months.
Rumor:
Employees who were excluded from taking the Voluntary Self Select Option (VSSOP) will not be excluded from an involuntary separation – should one be implemented at LLNL.
Fact:
This is incorrect. The same exclusions from the VSSOP would apply to an Involuntary Separation Plan (ISP). Any career indefinite employee who was excluded from taking the VSSOP would also be excluded from an ISP.
Now we have two full months to worry about it. So again the question is, when will we hear about the ISP of 547 more people that LLNL muct to to make up that shortyfall.
Did any of you catch the statement about the 10% cut in budget for FY-08? That's another $2.2M dollar cut in conjuntion with the known $69M we already have.
Can anyone figure out what's going to happen next year, that being FY-09 which is only 7 months away.
or something like that. it changes.
I sure hope NIF is successful and works as planned. There are many dedicated LLNL employees who have worked very hard for several years to secure the funding, plan and construct the buildings and everything inside, etc. If it is a failure, if it does not do what management says it will do, then it will prove what a few people have been saying - that it is a big time moneypit.