There needs to be a shift in thinking. The outside is actually much better than the lab right now. Many companies do their best to make the employees happy, and pay them well.
"You feel bad for those without jobs and yet at the same time very grateful you kept yours."
I was let go, and I feel the opposite. I feel sorry for those who are left in that place.
You have to look really hard in the bay area to find a place that treat's employees like LLNS does, and has the added bonus of being a toxic superfund site with radioactive material. Did I mention the asbestos in those old buildings? You know that if there is a major earthquake, everything in those buildings can become contaminated with asbestos, including you, right?
"Hang it there the best you can."
Do yourself a favor and find a better company to work for. Really. Come back in 6 years when the LLNS contract is over, if you really want to.
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Here, here!!
There have to be better jobs out there.
Look, there are tens of thousands of buildings in the bay area with Asbestos. There are even more buildings with lead paint. This isn't unique to the lab.
A funny thing is happening recently. People are picking up the pieces and trying to figure out how to move on. It'll never be the same again. It's time to accept that and move on. If you aren't happy then maybe you need to find a job elsewhere. No harm, no foul in that.
LLNS absolutely could of done a more human job in down sizing. For example, the city of Sacramento is offering its employees moves to other jobs they minimally qualify for, because they VALUE them, in lieu of layoffs! Not our arrogate ULM who only want the best and brightest until they have given their all, and then cut them loose.
Not to worry, it will bite them in the ass in the long run because the best and the brightest won't even be on LLNS radar as desirable places to work.
Its clear that LLNS is following the Bechtel corporate greed model: It's all about the bottom-line stupid
In CMELS the rumor is more scientist to be let go from the flex term pool. However management keeps telling us they are focusing on overhead positions.
Yep, there must be better jobs and being fired could be the best incentive for moving on. Most of my peers to include myself are scrambling to make new opportunities outside LLNL. Perhaps the blog should have an extensive sidebar for job rumor
Memo to those of you who haven't worked in the "real" world. It's pretty much like the lab today only you don't have the mission and you may have to drive a lot further depending on where you live.
The sense of entitlement here is almost smothering at times.
FYI 13 June.
In the 'real world' you typically don't have constant background checks and rules about your lifestyle outside of work. You don't have a job protecting the nation's most precious secrets and you weren't a priority target in a war.
The benefits that were promised us and then taken away are a pittance compared to the sacrifices made.
to June 13, 2008 9:43 PM.
The lab has made its self less competitive through bad management choices and wasted resources. If companies were to follow the labs managment style they would be out of business. This is not about entitlement!
We've had the downsizing and I expect it to continue. The question is where are the mission statements? What's managements plan to really lower burdens and increase the work for others? Where is the next science frontier LLNL? They have no plan other than cut the work force and hope DOE/NNSA will tell them what to do!
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