I've been hearing of impending layoffs in April. Has anyone else heard anything?
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...
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"Fact or Rumor?
I was recently quoted as saying that we should expect the LLNL population to be down to 3,500 people by 2010. This is most definitely a misquote. LLNS has no plans for future Reductions in Force (RIF). [Lab Director GM] and I continue to state that the RIF is behind us. Our future will be determined by all of us in the quality of our work, how safely we perform our work, and the value it provides our customers.
The past year was challenging for LLNL, and O&B had its share of those challenges. Now we face an exciting opportunity to continue our support for LLNL’s science and technology successes."
In modern management speak, it's called Workforce Planning.
In modern management speak, it's called Workforce Planning.
Either way, you're still out of a job.
There's been a definite change this week.
Layoffs are coming, bigtime. Also, this lab won't survive another 5 years at best. Long before that, all of the reasons for wanting to work here will vanish, including pay and decent benefits.
If you want to continue living in the Bay Area, use your knowledge to create a company of your own and take personal charge of your destiny.
There will be cheap offices and good labs available to entrepreneurial small companies at the research park at the former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory site.
Dulce' Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori!
Sorry, but last week I heard a member of middle management specifically use the word 'layoff', and it wasn't in a historical context.
I guess I missed something here !!
Strange how ULM at LLNS keeps everything a big secret at LLNL. hell they treat this information more compartmentalized than they did the weapons information. What bozo's. Does anyone from LANL have any inside information about what's going on at LLNL?
http://nnsa.energy.gov/infrastructure/documents/LLNL_FY09_TYSP.pdf
It has been in a previous post above.
Yes, indeed,
"Sweet it is to die for one's own country,
but it is sweeter to live for one's own country,
and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the honour of our homeland."
I'm no hyper-nationalist and certainly not about to toast a country that's turned it's back on the rank and file workers of LLNL.
More proof about governmental support (ha):
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/jan/24/former-flats-workers-again-denied-aid/
They should just give the 400M to NIF so they can stay afloat and get some data.
long ago if it weren't for
the extra tax burdens
on other programs at the Lab.
I don't know how many
times this has to be
beaten the head of the NIF
cheerleaders posting
on this board.
Oh, sure they can. Don't kid yourself. The new for-profit management is getting paid to reduce the head count.
Less employees makes NNSA happy which means the LLC is rewarded. NNSA's budget is heading downward, if you didn't notice.
As far as getting the work done, the employees are on their own for that one. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
I hear my retired friends becoming bitter, and the hurt from people who were escorted off site as if they were untrustworthy.
I saw the NIF, front page, above the fold, and I heard Arnold claiming "This will be the energy source of the future". Good science is good science, but overselling it to get funding is wrong, almost criminal. It parallels what the Wall Street con artists did to the world economy.
I remember how a module the size of an office desk was going to shoot down the entire incoming Soviet missile fleet (Teller).
Sell it, Livermore, sell the NIF to your Governor, to anyone who will provide support that might lead to funding. All the eggs are in one basket.
If NIF does not achieve the goal then we can all be assured of the numbers in the ranks falling to a new low, to that 3,500 we keep hearing about.
I want NIF to work, for LLNL to continue the course, for science to succeed. But like my mother used to say "wish in one hand and spit in the other, see which fills up first".
I am one of the luck ones that got to tackle a life changing event rather than having to face the demise, on a daily basis, like a slow train wreck, and trying to deny what is inevitable. Like we all did with the economy by pretending not to see it coming.
A smart person who makes big money stashes it away because they know that someday it's going to come a blow.
A smart person looking for a career in science should think twice before considering LLNL right now, except for maybe an assignment in NIF that would guarantee layoff insurance, but it will be a term appointment.
And then again, sometimes it's not what you make, it's what you take with you.