Thursday, October 2, 2008
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
Well, it was 1-year effective October 1st. I think the new account numbering systems sucks and every one of my account numbers transferred over. I know several people who have zero hours since the first of the year due to the new accounting system. Yet another savings method for our new "owners". Go figure! What do you think of our status after one year?
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I have recently been loaned out to NIF. I have never in my life seen so many kiss asses assembled in one area. Thank God they are no longer exempt from future layoff's!
I has gotten worse. People are going through the moves like robots. There is no sense of belonging. LLNL is history!
No one in upper management can look me in the eye and say they are trying to keep talent and attract talent. That is a lie. We just had a very talented, one in a million person, leave. That person got tired of waiting for years to be converted.
No manager fights for his/her people anymore! It is everyone for himself!
Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead.....
Even in today's economy I just don't buy the excuse of needing to stay there anymore. No one is riding over the hill to rescue the employees or the programs. You're better off just taking the hit and moving on.
Ask any financial advsisor. Ask your doctor. Ask your spouse if you have one. Your friends. I doubt they'd recommend you stay.
On a more cheerful note, happy birthday!
A division leader just got promoted within S&T in the classic fail upwards mechanism of lab after two-thirds of her division left or was laid off in the last 2 years.
Speaking to a group leader about the future she said "I won't let anything happen to my division."
These people have completely lost it!!!
Let me warn you that the second year of LLC life is when things typically start to get really interesting.
And I don't mean "interesting" in a good way!
Happy Anniversary! LLNL went from being the crown jewel to a tarnish crown thanks to the boys from RECHTEL. Less people and more work now that is cost cutting.
10-beam
Are you sure the BBTD DL has been promoted or rather demoted. There were intense rumors she was going to be relocated. Do you know what is her new position?
BBTD DL is now Chief-of-Staff for the Physical and Life Sciences PAD- sounds like a promotion, not a demotion. Strange that "life sciences" is even part of the name of this organization, when nearly all funding and good scientists and leadership in this area have left over the past couple of years. No prospects for bringing back any presence in "life sciences" with our overhead rates and marginal staff, so why fake it? Why not just call it "Sciences" PAD, like "Engineering" PAD? Or was the name an intentional slight against the chemists?
Hi October 4, 2008 5:15 PM,
Can you expand on your comment that "the second year of LLC life is when things typically start to get really interesting."
What might we be in for?
Her position is "Chief of staff". I don't know what that means. I figured that since she did such a good job getting rid of 200 people from the division in the last 2 years, that they promoted into a higher position where they'd use her to help get rid of the rest of the directorate.
I've heard the new S&T directorate referenced as "Physics and lessor sciences". The possibility of using the new Chief-of-Staff should be effective at cutting the remaining scientific staff.
"What might we be in for?" - 5:12 PM
During the second year you'll begin to see serious efforts to decrease salaries at LLNL. LLNS will begin creating brand new job categories with new salary limits that can't be waived. These limits mean that many employees won't be able to receive future raises.
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