Skip to main content

So, has your workload increased?

Image
By
I know that since the VSOP and ISP, we lost a bunch of people in my department. The work hasn't decreased, just the number of people doing the work. Now, we've a bunch of people who are over worked, doing jobs they've never done before, with no one to ask (nor time to do so) if they are doing the job right. I smell an incident.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Yes. The firings removed many key scientific support personnel. Some well-funded projects cannot find qualified workers. There is pressure to get deliverables to WFO sponsors who are already disgusted with our overhead rates. Meanwhile, many of the infrastructure staff (safety teams, building coordinators) are refusing to do their work, because their support staff were cut, and they will be darned if they will lift themselves out of their comfy chairs and deliver packages or sort through hazardous waste. So yes, as planned by those who oversaw the layoffs throughout the lab- while oddly excluding NIF entirely from the layoffs- life is tougher.
9/04/2008 9:25 PM
Anonymous said…
Yes. I now do the work of three people for the same pay and see no reward for doing so in site, except to stay employed. Isn't slave labor and exploitation a wonder concept? It's the way of the new world order. Corporate America is finally following China's lead by way of the people acceptance.
9/05/2008 5:53 PM
Anonymous said…
I have one two days off in the past 2 months so i do not see a problem. just beat us donkeys harder.
9/06/2008 9:13 PM
Anonymous said…
Well let's see-I was doing two jobs and got laid off, so I guess I should have found another job or two in order to stay employed. Of course now someone is doing those two jobs plus whatever else they had to do.Good luck and stay healthy.
9/10/2008 11:56 AM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Plutonium Shots on NIF.

By scooby
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...
155 comments
Read more

Trump is to gut the labs.

By scooby
The budget has a 20% decrease to DOE office of science, 20% cut to NIH. NASA also gets a cut. This will  have a huge negative effect on the lab. Crazy, juts crazy. He also wants to cut NEA and PBS, this may not seem like  a big deal but they get very little money and do great things.
124 comments
Read more

Why Workplace Jargon Is A Big Problem

By scooby
From the Huffington Post Why Workplace Jargon Is A Big Problem http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/work-words_n_5159868.html?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business When we replace a specific task with a vague expression, we grant the task more magnitude than it deserves. If we don't describe an activity plainly, it seems less like an easily achievable goal and more like a cloudy state of existence that fills unknowable amounts of time. A fog of fast and empty language has seeped into the workplace. I say it's time we air it out, making room for simple, concrete words, and, therefore, more deliberate actions. By striking the following 26 words from your speech, I think you'll find that you're not quite as overwhelmed as you thought you were. Count the number that LLNLs mangers use.  touch base circle back bandwidth - impactful - utilize - table the discussion deep dive - engagement - viral value-add - one-sheet deliverable - work product - incentivise - take it to the ...
96 comments
Read more