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would the person who contacted the law firm report back any news?
would the person who contacted the law firm report back any news?
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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III.2.3 Order of Layoff
The order of layoff for career employees in the same classification (defined as the four digits of the title code) within a unit is in inverse order of Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC seniority except that the department head may retain employees irrespective of seniority who possess special skills, knowledge, or abilities that are not possessed by other employees in the same classification with greater seniority, and that are necessary to perform the ongoing function of the department. All such exceptions are documented and reviewed by the Human Resources Manager.
This appears to be a general approval to use SKAs as the determining factor, not seniority. With this type of exception, management's ability to keep whomever they desire is limited only by their writing ability and imagination.
I think it makes sense to have that sort of flexibility. Most everyone on this blog claim they work at the Lab out of a sense of patriotism. I would argue the patriotic thing to do is step out of the way of the guy who has special skills and put aside your selfish, unpatriotic desire to keep your job. Just keep telling yourself "It's for the good of the country".