Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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Anyone with a lick of common sense would realise that mediocre pay will not retain high-quality employees unless some other incentive exists.
LLNL used to have those incentives, allowing it to get away paying folks so-so wages. Now those intangibles like interesting work, a stable work environment, and a good retirement package are all gone.
If LLNL is going be run by mercenaries, by God we ought to get premium mercenary-grade pay to go with it. That's how the major defense contractors can manage to get good people to work on their big projects despite letting them go after the project is complete.
You don't understand. he doesn't give a rats butt about you. he's making $437K a month plus perks and just to make that clear he has just taken you Pacific Care and health net away from you and gave you blue cross and Kaiser and then raised you out of pocket expenses on all insurances in a year where you are going to get 1.5 cents on the dollar. I'd say that was might kind of THAT !!! You can take that in any context you want.
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Watch it, mister. You can always be replaced.
(The Management)
A: Our contract with DOE requires that overall the Laboratory pay its employees based on market surveys. Our position to market is indeed an average-to-average comparison for benchmark positions as our contract dictates. This average-to- average comparison establishes on a percentage basis what the Laboratory will be allowed across the entire population to compensate its employees. Individual compensation decisions take into account skills, knowledge and abilities (SKAs), performance, and overall contribution to the Laboratory and may result in salaries above, at, or below the market average.
Do you people actually believe this. The way they rank you is by salary and perception, nothing else. They can help you if they wish or hurt you for your entire career as often as they wish and justify their every act completely.
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