Saturday, October 4, 2008

Why is your boss white, middle-class and a show-off

Anonymously contributed:

Saw this article:
It was so right on somany points I had to chuckle at the image of ULM being a bunch of GEICO representative rejects. FYI - GEICO = Government Employees Insurance Company.

Read it

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Its funny...I had a friend with a NIH proposal that was reviewed and the major problem was they were using the labs population for a study and the comments pretty made the point about race, age and class of the lab does not represent US population and many work environments.

Anonymous said...

Yeah. There are way to many foreign nationals than there are white people at LLNL.

Anonymous said...

Eh???

Most of the foreign nationals are white - would whatever - why does that matter other than to show that there aren't enough Americans graduating with science degrees/phds at the moment.

This thread has a danger of becoming racist and xenophobic.

The first comment is odd - I don't think NIH really pay attention to this that much. It might be something that a reviewer might make an observation about but frankly the reason LLNL doesn't get NIH money is our cost versus our competitors for that money (universities and private industry).

Anonymous said...

in your dreams! the lab is dominated by white males and a large number of them are over 50 years old. You're obviously not from the lab, so move along.

Anonymous said...

When you pick a group of people for study NIH pays special attention to the age, race and sex. Of course this also depends on what you want to scientifically study regarding the population. If its white males, med-high economic background and prostate cancer the lab population would be ideal.

Anonymous said...

LLNL is kind of like going to Europe every day. A heintz 57 to the max.

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