It also appears that the NIF (National Ignition Facility) directorate has placed about 100 of its matrixed people on EBA (Employee Between Assignments) status and sent them back to their home directorates. The problem is that some fraction of them were also placed on NIF's list of people with essential SKAs (skills, knowledge and abilities) and were thus made ineligible to take the VSSOP (Voluntary Self-Select Separation Plan), which now makes them ineligible for the ISP (Involuntary Separation Plan), i.e., the layoff which will start taking place the week of May 19. In other words, some NIF EBAs may wind up returning to their home directorates and displacing other employees who have funded assignments.If this happens, it may be prejudicial to good labor relations, and may even expose the lab to litigation.
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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LLNS Termination Request
How much more does anyone need to realize. It may say The Employees of LLNL but I'm sure it speaks for a lot of us. I only wish who ever wrote it would come forward to Betsy Mason and lets get this in the press and on the airways nationally.
Anyone care to poke holes in this document or write up an evaluation on LLNS and post it here. I'm sure the blogmater would love to start a new topic entitled, "LLNS In The Eyes of It's Employees"
Please Critique Away LLNS needs YOUR input
2. Help each other; ask for and give help and welcome it freely (it is not a sign of weakness). Go out of the way to provide extra support to fellow employees. Share experiences and lessons learned, both successes and failures. Mentor and seek training to the benefit of the team. Grage(F)
3. Communicate early, honestly, and completely with all who have a direct interest in the subject. Listen to others’ points of view.Grage(F)
4. Earn trust by accepting and honoring agreements, keeping promises, and discussing needed changes before acting. Grage(F)
5. Meet deadlines by honoring commitments. If your ability to meet a commitment changes, communicate with those affected BEFORE the deadline. Grage(F)
6. Work to understand LLNS goals and strategies and proactively support them through discussions, communications, and actions (for example, sharing resources). Grage(F)
7. Never undermine colleagues directly or indirectly. Grage(FF-)
8. Work jointly to resolve disagreements in good faith. If necessary, go to a higher authority together, then accept and support the solution. Grage(F)
9. Contribute constructively by exercising the highest level of professional and ethical behavior. Conduct yourself with the same high level of integrity when others are watching and when nobody is watching. Grage(F)
Translation:
Treat colleagues as if they are children and abuse their trust, strip away their dignity and rationalize that it was for the good of the company
2. Help each other; ask for and give help and welcome it freely (it is not a sign of weakness). Go out of the way to provide extra support to fellow employees. Share experiences and lessons learned, both successes and failures. Mentor and seek training to the benefit of the team.
Translation:
Ask for input from the employees as if you really care. Go out of your way to share silly stories about running red lights and attempting to suck coffee out of your cell phone. Mentor Ed Moses to become a bigger and better liar than you are.
3. Communicate early, honestly, and completely with all who have a direct interest in the subject. Listen to others’ points of view.
Translation:
Lie early,completely and often to everyone whether they have interest in the subject or not.
4. Earn trust by accepting and honoring agreements, keeping promises, and discussing needed changes before acting.
Translation:
Don't trust anyone and promise to break every agreement. Discuss needed changes and then do something completely different.
5. Meet deadlines by honoring commitments. If your ability to meet a commitment changes, communicate with those affected BEFORE the deadline.
Transaltion:
Wait until it's too late and lay everyone off.
6.Work to understand LLNS goals and strategies and proactively support them through discussions, communications, and actions (for example, sharing resources).
Translation:
Work to understand LLNS goals and strategies and proactively support them through lies and deceit.
7. Never undermine colleagues directly or indirectly.
Translation:
Always undermine colleagues behind their back or, if need be, to their face.
8. Work jointly to resolve disagreements in good faith. If necessary, go to a higher authority together, then accept and support the solution.
Translation:
Always negotiate in bad faith and if necessary, blame a higher authority.
9. Contribute constructively by exercising the highest level of professional and ethical behavior. Conduct yourself with the same high level of integrity when others are watching and when nobody is watching.
Translation:
Pretend to be professional and ethical. When no one is looking, make a mockery of others integrity.
NIFties were ineligible for the VSSOP. Therefore they are not subject to ISP. When they return to the parent unit, they are certainly causing others to be let go even if they are junior to those with funded jobs.
Translation:
Lie early,completely and often to everyone whether they have interest in the subject or not.
Take a look at the following link - maybe this study was released early to LLNS ULM?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/
lf_nm_life/lying_face_dc_1