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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simply falling into the corporate norm of offering counseling and job fairs. Can you say AT&T or IBM?
Nothing can cover up the fact that this layoff was manipulated, Legal perhaps ,but still manipulated.How else do you justify keeping unvested employees and dumping vested ones? not to mention the ones the protected list. Just because it is legal doesn't make it right. Legality has nothing to do with it just go down to the Southern states and you will find out.
To 7:03, I agree 100% the layoff was manipulated, but some (not all) layoffs were justified and I think most in that category saw it coming. The lab knew who had to go and did what they had to do to make it happen. Welcome to the private sector.
GM goes on to add that "After reading the article in Times on the importance of science I read the article in the local Times about how the quality of science at the lab was suffering because we've fired so many scientists and that all the other good scientists were leaving and we're now unable to hire anyone in. I am bouyed by this news! I can see that by going over to an all management facility, LLNS has helped increase the quality of science happening elsewhere in the bay area. The country as a whole will benefit from the ingenuity and experience of the men and women that used to work for LLNS."
40% of the division has gone in the last year. We still have the same number of managers though and actually almost the same number of admins.
I think the message is pretty clear.
Many employees had more than 25 years of outstanding service and probably around 90% had " Q " clearances and yet we were treated like criminals and or " problem employee's " on our lay-off day.
I will never forgive management for forcing me to leave the job I enjoyed for so many years and for the way we were treated on our lay off day.