Try to be positive. Firing the right people might actually be good for the Lab. If you could lay off whomever you wanted to, what groups would you target? OK, ULM is a given. Who is next?
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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2. Procurement. Lab legal in laval form.
3. Public Relations. If you can't do a good job spinning for LLNL you need to go.
4. Anyone else who makes >3 trips to D.C. a year.
2 - The UCOP mgrs who plagiarized the LANS bid to write the LLNS bid, without considering how different the two labs are...
3 - Security, who are turning a science lab into a Stalag 13...
4 - Anyone whose last job prior to their employment at LLNL was with NNSA, DNFSB, or DOE...
5 - Any manager who begins their sentences with... "Well, at the last NNSA production site I worked at, we did it this way..."
These people get paid too much just to write about other people's mistakes. Maybe if they were forced to do real work, they would quit being tattlers for DOE.
The new contract created a new Contractor's Assurance Office in B111. Just what we need.
So we target the group of people who have a bad attitude.
Most of those who added comments to the blog seem like good candidates.
Actaully I'd keep anyone who ever made an entry on the blog. At least these people think and say what is needed to be said. They don't bury their heads in the sand and say nothing. It's people with guts we want not chicken littles.
People who speak their mind, even anonymously, are likely to speak up against injustices and wrong doing!
They are the kind of people LLNL needs.
We have a bunch of people at LLNL that are afraid of their own shadow. Just look at the results of the poll about the sick out!
41 out of 93 people said they will NOT participate in a sick out to protest LLNS mismanagement of LLNL.
That means either:
1) they are afraid that LLNS will know of their pledged participation
or
2) They think LLNS is not mismanaging LLNL
I will follow the rules of this Blog and keep this comment clean!
The lab has turned into a female feminist haven. No one left to do science. Females in every department like a cancer eating out from the inside. Of course no one will admit to it. Too many men have been turned into girly men like the governer has said in the past. Sorry situation if we ever need to be a great superpower again.
We have enough to deal with as it is, lets not open up a can of worms.
Garibaldi, "Now all of you have been stuck in the mid-level position, in the same department, because you have an attitude problem. If you don't like something; you complain, you talk back, you think you can do everything better than you bosses."
Unnamed, "So we fired is that it?"
Garibaldi, "Actually, more like promoted. I have decided that all of you are now on the board of directors of Edgers Industries. Your job is tell me, where we have screwed up, so we can fix it, make it better. The position entitles you to a one hundred percent salary increase affective immediately, plus benefits. One part of your job is to tell me, if I've screwed up, to stand your ground. Now if your right, you get a bonus. If you wrong, I will eat you for lunch. Does anyone have a problem with that?"
I must remain neutral; As a blog master, I don't have to agree or disagree with a comment; the only rule is that it must adhere to the posted BLOG rules. I cannot censor
any opinion. Freedom of speech, remember?
What is the Garibaldi dialog about?
You lost me!
April 5, 2008 2:21 PM"
Could you clarify what issue you are referring to? If you are commenting on drug testing, that is not a security issue. If you are commenting on polygraphs, that is also not a security issue. Not sure what has changed...
I think he lost all of us. I too hope they come back to explain the dialog.
In terms of who should go... How about people who do nothing but complain without contributing anything at work? There are real and serious problems right now and they need to be discussed and resolved. However there is also work that needs to be done if we want to have jobs down the road.
The attitude was refreshing - we're going to fix things.
After that everybody else can get back to work!
Since we run shifts, are you okay with them closing early, or are we just going to piss off the people that come in at 9:00 a.m. and want to see them open late?
Generally I agree. However, due to the LLNS reorg, the AB people now belong to Nuc Ops.
I would target the entire Nuc Ops Directorate. What a waste! WCI has taken all the power; Nuc Ops is an organization without a purpose.
BTW, the AD for Nuc Ops who was named in the proposal is now filling a made-up DPAD position and the Significant Other is filling a made-up job in CAS. These are two prime candidtates for the ISP!
This ex-AD and spouse should also be on the hit list.
That means somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3 of everyone who has a support job: bean counters, safety weenies, auditors, HR, etc.
Also, as shown above, the entire Nuc Ops Directorate can go too.
I am not sure which indicates more stupidity: not opening the gates until 6:30 AM or lining up behind a closed gate when you know it will not open until 6:30.
I know several people, including myself, who start work ~6 AM and somehow can remember which gate is open.
You must be either a ULM overpaid bozo or some wanttabee cop who can't find a real job in the real word. If you're the idiot in charge then you should be fired for being as stupid as you are. Get the gate open at 6:00 AM and you won't have to be publicly humiliated for the press to pick up on.
Blogmaster. Please bring the issue of not having the Greenville gate open at 6:00 AM to a top post so the world can see how stupid the PSO department really is. It's appears one of our finest, a member of the good old boy LLNS ULM groupy, but demoted to a security topdog can't get his act together. Want to save the lab some money, here's a good place to start.
Right on! Why would anyone wait in a 0.5 mi-long line rather than go to the open gate?
As a single parent who expects to be with the next 535 to bite the dust, I would gladly use whatever gate necessary to be able to come to work.
Again get the gate open at 6:00 AM
NOT 6:30 AM