Being RIF'd is bad enough, but now LLNS wants you to go "hang out" with a bunch of other people who feel like you. I think they think that this is a support group or something. Let me see if I understand this . . . You are still a LLNL employee; you are expected to come to work and do something. Now if your projects are mostly classified, you can't because it needs to be done in an approved area - you don't have access to. Oh wait, you don't even have access to medical, the library or even the cafes. Sounds like discrimination to me.
What are your thoughts on the matter?
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Posted on NewsOnLine today:
The Laboratory has received approval from DOE/LSO for 200 series employees with greater than 10 years service who are affected by the Involuntary Separation Plan process to telecommute from home through their notice period.
The Lab also will operate a transition center in Bldg. 041 – at Vasco Road and Mesquite Gate. The outside gate at Vasco will be reopened for full public access. The center will provide additional HR support and job/career information to all employees affected by the ISP process.
“This option of telecommuting will allow those employees working through their 60-, 90- or 120-day period to have a choice in where they want to work,” said Art Wong of Strategic Human Capital Management (SHCM). “We think it is a good alternative. But if anyone would prefer to work in the transition center and not telecommute, that option still is available.”
The Laboratory already has a formal policy on telecommuting, which will apply in this situation. To view the LLNS policy, click here.
Over the next few weeks SHCM will be providing additional information on the ISP process and the resources available through NewsOnLine and on the Retooling the Workforce internal Web page. The exit center for all ISP employees will be located at the Training Center, Trailer 1879.
I think you can blame DOE for this idiocy. I think it's obvious that the lab would rather give people the money owed them and let them get on with their lives. DOE on the other hand wants to "get its moneys worth" and won't allow the lab to do more than 30 days pay in lieu of notice.
Which means the lab gets to spend a bunch of money handling the situation and put soon to be former employees through something that neither side wants.
Just another example of the idiocy of DOE in this situation.
In a word (or two): It stinks.
In a few more words: It reminds me of the LLNL "cooler experience" many of us had after hiring, while we waited for our clearances to come through. But THIS is the "dark side" of the whole process, and in reverse. A whole building/trailer full of depressed and angry people, just waiting for the clock to tick down? I think they'd better station a fulltime psychologist in the center.
I don't see how laying people off and allowing them a place to go to try to find a new job is discriminatory. What about all of the non-200 people? They get 2 hours and they are gone. They don't get a workstation nor any other LLNS support finding a new job. Guess what, that happens all the time in the real world.I guess most of you think you are entitled to a job. You aren't.
Now get back to work
May 6, 2008 11:59 AM
Agreed. Favoritism yes, but again 200's is what LLNL is all about. Anything other than that classification is just slave labor that can be abolished at any time. That's what the new LLNL is going to be all about. That's also why all new hires should not settle for a stating income lower than 20% higher than the highest paid person in the classification they are seeking. You're never going to make good wages if you don't come in high and 20% higher than what we get now will just bring you up where you should be in California. Please don't get taken to the cleansers as we have been.
I believe it is the case that the facility will be available to everyone who is let go in the ISP for the first 30 days.
The "Resource" Center support will be available to all, not just 200s. You will be told the details when you are told you are fired.
The Transition Center will quickly take on the demeanor of a "Loser's Lounge" that is full of a bunch of very bitter people. What was NNSA thinking?
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