Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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I was the only one there with the intention of talking about the RIF. I asked a few people if they were there because of the invitation from the BLOG and they said "no".
Draw your own conclusion.
People are tired and waiting for their pink slips. They just want this over with now, for good. I am sure many know this is coming again next year and another 2000 employees will be out the gate due to budget cuts reducing the head count down to 4000 even. Someone like myself wish ULM would just cut the 50% on the 22nd of this month and be done with it. How people can continue to work in this type of environment safely and effectively is beyond me. I know there's people who say, "the lab isn't dead", but I surely don't see any promise in it's future existence.
Sure, if someone told scooby I'll bet it would show right up at the top however if you've been watching only about 200 or so people actually read this blog and participate. That's 200 out of 6,500 people. Not a good turn out on the blog nether.