Anonymous said about us:
You livermites are the worse example of unity I've ever seen. Your blog or should I say lack of participation tells DOE, NNSA & LLNS all they need to know. They can do what they want, any time they wish, and all you'll do is bend over and take it. Even in a time when you're wages are 20% behind inflation you refuse to ask where's your 20%, while ULM get huge pay raises, bonus checks and build their nest eggs at your expense. It seems the Livermites' lack of action, involvement and complacency is a prime example of what has ruined this country and turned the mass majority into corporate America's lackey's. You get what you allow. Enjoy you dilemma..
Is he right?
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And this lack of 'unity' is in major contrast to what has gone on at LANL for instance? Yes, I recall now seeing the newsreels of the sitdown strikes on the mesa. Made me think of Detroit in the 1930s alright. I can see those intrepid LANL bloggers tossing the tear gas canisters back over the fences.
Would I still rather be a UC employee? Sure. That's not the deal that was offered. For all the turmoil, I haven't yet seen them sending out armed teams to drag people to work at the Lab. For now, a lot of us still have interesting work that appears to be important to someone. And we're trying to not let down our immediate colleagues at a time when yes, some things do just suck. Maybe watching such cycles roll through nearby Silicon Valley makes us less likely to feel a special sense of persecution.
August 9, 2008 10:44 PM
If you people haven't noticed ever since the boneheads running this country opened the flood gates seeking cheap foreign labor both inside the USA and abroad your job security is gone as well as your bargaining chips. If you didn't realize it then I hope you realize it now, since that was the goal when NAFTA and the global economy was institutionalized. Stand by, it's only going to get better as the influx of immigrants continues to rise as well as their birth rate. Take a look around and see who's spawning the most and then look at your pay check and notice whose paying their way. While you are at it take note of the small details on your social security summary. You're only going to get 78% of the projected benefits stated above in 2014 and the age you'll be able to draw your SS will soon to be age 67, just a few years before you are scheduled to statistically die. Oh yeah, isn't it so much better now days.
August 10, 2008 2:57 PM:
That contribution seems wide of the posted topic, but hey, if you need to (re-) vent some xenophobic spleen, go for it. When the doctor at the emergency room is not native born, I hope you'll be conscious enough to wave for the gurney to be rolled back outside.
I do not see LANL sheepeople forming a union and fighting ULM to the end what a bunch of wussies
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August 10, 2008 2:57 PM
You forgot to mention the million's of people who are drawing social security that never paid a dime into the system. People like immigrants and drug addicts who are deemed eligible by some compassionate bureaucracy. YOU will never get yours because THEY spent it all on those who never earned it. In reality you've just took another cut in pay.
I think given the huge number of people choosing to leave the lab at the moment, and subsequently the retainment problem the lab has, this comment evidently isn't true - people are vting with their feet! It is sadly true though that a small number of people are profiting handsomely from LNL'd demise.
Sound and fury - signifying nothing.
I doubt the originator was active in resisting the changes and more than likely is a troll looking to muddy the waters.
Hold it there!
"People like immigrants and drug addicts who are deemed eligible by some compassionate bureaucracy."
Immigrants? We are all immigrants or descendants of immigrants
Unless you are a native american, you
came from somewhere else.
Ah! those immigrants! the ones that arrived recently. Get over your bad case of xenophobia and bigotry!
August 11, 2008 7:19 PM
Open your eyes and look around instead of burring your head in the sand and denying the obvious. Taking side with those who are aiding your daily demise will gain you nothing.
August 11, 2008 8:07 PM
Next thing you'll be saying is that the Jews are poisoning our wells....
Racism has no place here.
Ed Teller was an immigrant, so was Einstein. Without them, LLNL would never have existed in the first place.
August 12, 2008 9:56 PM
And just think. Without him no one would have a nuclear weapons. I wonder how that would have changed todays world and politics.
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