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Monday, March 24, 2008
LANS Ranking - Evaluation
Any one care to rank LLNS like they did LANS. Here's LANS Evaluation. Can't wait to see how LLNS comes out.
8 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Ranking is a formality and wont change a thing. Notice even when the grade is a failing one, such as 35%, the fee for is still prorated at 35%. It is for the public's eye.
Want to bet that LLNS will see this and make sure they don't make the same mistakes. Of course their job is much, much easier than LANS. All these goons have to do is cut the lab by 50% by 2009 and they are home free. If no work WFO comes into LLNL that's not their problem. In the end they'll get there MANAGEMENT FEE of which by the way any of us could have done and retired with big bucks in five years. What a scam! If no WFO come is after cutting LLNL by 50%, so what we'll just cut more people until there is only four buildings on site, 111, NIF, 132 and the super computer. In ULM's eyes the rest could all shut their doors tomorrow and no one would know the difference. Oh I forgot we'll need accounting and procurement so ULM can get their pay checks and some minuscule parts, but, we could outsource that to India or the Philippines. Lots of cheap labor there that can do the job just as well. Welcome to global economics and the making of the next industrial nation aka China
No managers are going to go, but what you are saying is true through-out the entire lab all the way to the top. UC was 150% staffed with ULM and it was my hopes that that number would be cut by 75%, but, what did they do. Hired 40 more morons at $200K -$400K plus salaries.
Agree that Comp's ULM needs purging. The AD imposed the current ranking system on her division long before the rest of the lab got stuck with it. Some of the hare-brained projects their ULM have come up with were just as nutty as Lowell Wood's worst.
But I think 1:50 PM meant the worker bees in LC. Huge amounts of stress and crazy politics imposed from on high. It's a miracle they keep those big machines running so well without going insane. The folks that run the little stuff too, like email and an instant message system they came up with. They took time to help me get it all working smoothly. Not dead wood in my book.
March 24, 2008 8:19 PM You wanted change, expected to get it simply by cutting management by 50%, but are incensed that some new blood was brought in to help drive change. No you're right, keeping 1/2 of the team that you're so proud of would definitely be better than a different perspective. By the way, do you happen to know any of the “morons”? I work for one, pretty sure he/she (not giving it away) doesn’t make $200-$400K, he/she does have years of demonstrated experience with DOE (and yes, they’ve held a Q form most of those years) and given a chance could probably help make this a better place. From my observations however, that chance doesn’t seem to be available. Can’t imagine why, can you? (No, I haven’t gone over to the “dark side.” Just forced to put a face on one of your morons, only to discover that I like what I see.)
The change you speak of will come only after the entire complex is destroyed and LLNS has replaced all of the FTE with "their " people which is what's going on now. Maybe someday LLNL will work on something other than weapons and homeland security which I suspect will "all" go away with the next president. The scare tactics used to make this monster will just not be there any more. However, I think the tactic of "fire and replace" as if though you were a mis-spelled word in a MS word document is not the answer. I think LLNS needs to lay out what projects we are going to be working on. If you tell me that LLNS doesn't have a defined list of WFO, then the contract should have never been awarded and we should still be under UC.
As it stands now people at LLNL come to work each day with the understanding that "today" may be your last day of employment. There is no stability and no hope. Everyone is wondering from day to day, who will be the next person sent out the gate and their careers destroyed. And then finally, no one I know "trust LLNS" or ULM any further than they can spit.
So, there you go. NNSA / DOE have successfully destroyed everything that UC made in 50 years in less than 1 year. Good job. I think I'll raise the contract incentive fee for FY-09.
The bottomline is, that face has one hell of a job to do but I doubt it will be very easy with what they have done, especially in the face of all those who's lives he/she has destroyed.
8 comments:
Ranking is a formality and wont change a thing. Notice even when the grade is a failing one, such as 35%, the fee for is still prorated at 35%.
It is for the public's eye.
Want to bet that LLNS will see this and make sure they don't make the same mistakes. Of course their job is much, much easier than LANS. All these goons have to do is cut the lab by 50% by 2009 and they are home free. If no work WFO comes into LLNL that's not their problem. In the end they'll get there MANAGEMENT FEE of which by the way any of us could have done and retired with big bucks in five years. What a scam! If no WFO come is after cutting LLNL by 50%, so what we'll just cut more people until there is only four buildings on site, 111, NIF, 132 and the super computer. In ULM's eyes the rest could all shut their doors tomorrow and no one would know the difference. Oh I forgot we'll need accounting and procurement so ULM can get their pay checks and some minuscule parts, but, we could outsource that to India or the Philippines. Lots of cheap labor there that can do the job just as well. Welcome to global economics and the making of the next industrial nation aka China
I don't think LC is exactly a joyfull place either.
Comp is full of dead wood, especially those with "deputy" in their title.
It has more deputies than Alameda County's sheriff dept.
March 24, 2008 8:19 PM
No managers are going to go, but what you are saying is true through-out the entire lab all the way to the top. UC was 150% staffed with ULM and it was my hopes that that number would be cut by 75%, but, what did they do. Hired 40 more morons at $200K -$400K plus salaries.
Agree that Comp's ULM needs purging. The AD imposed the current ranking system on her division long before the rest of the lab got stuck with it. Some of the hare-brained projects their ULM have come up with were just as nutty as Lowell Wood's worst.
But I think 1:50 PM meant the worker bees in LC. Huge amounts of stress and crazy politics imposed from on high. It's a miracle they keep those big machines running so well without going insane. The folks that run the little stuff too, like email and an instant message system they came up with. They took time to help me get it all working smoothly. Not dead wood in my book.
March 24, 2008 8:19 PM
You wanted change, expected to get it simply by cutting management by 50%, but are incensed that some new blood was brought in to help drive change. No you're right, keeping 1/2 of the team that you're so proud of would definitely be better than a different perspective. By the way, do you happen to know any of the “morons”? I work for one, pretty sure he/she (not giving it away) doesn’t make $200-$400K, he/she does have years of demonstrated experience with DOE (and yes, they’ve held a Q form most of those years) and given a chance could probably help make this a better place. From my observations however, that chance doesn’t seem to be available. Can’t imagine why, can you? (No, I haven’t gone over to the “dark side.” Just forced to put a face on one of your morons, only to discover that I like what I see.)
March 25, 2008 9:50 PM
The change you speak of will come only after the entire complex is destroyed and LLNS has replaced all of the FTE with "their " people which is what's going on now. Maybe someday LLNL will work on something other than weapons and homeland security which I suspect will "all" go away with the next president. The scare tactics used to make this monster will just not be there any more. However, I think the tactic of "fire and replace" as if though you were a mis-spelled word in a MS word document is not the answer. I think LLNS needs to lay out what projects we are going to be working on. If you tell me that LLNS doesn't have a defined list of WFO, then the contract should have never been awarded and we should still be under UC.
As it stands now people at LLNL come to work each day with the understanding that "today" may be your last day of employment. There is no stability and no hope. Everyone is wondering from day to day, who will be the next person sent out the gate and their careers destroyed. And then finally, no one I know "trust LLNS" or ULM any further than they can spit.
So, there you go. NNSA / DOE have successfully destroyed everything that UC made in 50 years in less than 1 year. Good job. I think I'll raise the contract incentive fee for FY-09.
The bottomline is, that face has one hell of a job to do but I doubt it will be very easy with what they have done, especially in the face of all those who's lives he/she has destroyed.
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