Listen to your employees, friends and coworkers! If you want to improve morale, listen. You may not like what you hear, and do not take it with a grain of salt. We've been screaming for help and we might as well be screaming in a vacuum. HELP!
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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Right now, 99% of what we do is geared towards LLNS contract success (big chunk of that is compliance with NNSA). How is that better than the UC managed Lab?
Big Brother is watching.
Real Benefits and we were part of the UC community!
I think people have given up hope of things ever being the same or ULM listening to what they feel. It is what it is and there is nothing anyone can do about it. ULM's feeings are, _"if you don't like it here pack your bags and move on down the road",__ "you're one less person on the payroll and one less person we have to worry about whe the next RIF comes"._ LLNL as it was IS OVER and will never be the same again. I feel sorry for anyone who comes to work here thinking they have a career. Sorry to disappoint you.
As an aside, I recently went to a training class and I was stunned by how many people had less than 5 years at the lab or more than 20. I've been around more than 10 years.
They should have keep employees in UC, and LLNS could have brought in any needed ULM from the parent companies.
There was zero creativity in designing the LLNS LLC bid by UC. There were other options, such as LLNS LLC being a UC owned company. But after LANS beat out LM-UT for LANL, UC decided to use the exact same approach on the LLNL bid.
I will go to my grave wondering what would have happened in LANS had lost to LM-UT, which had absolutely no interest in LLNL. I doubt UC would have continued teaming with Bechtel for a bid on LLNL. Also UC was not going to let UT run a national lab in Calif, and would have done everything it could to keep the LLNL contract out of UT's hands.
Maybe UC would have teamed with LM to compete against the NG team.
This is the fundamental difference between UC and LLNS.
Under UC, the same people could fix about anything.
In essence, LLNS was a lobotomy.
LLNS is a shipwreck and some poor coxswain is going to take the blame.
If there was more of a time window to see how the LANS transition unfolded, maybe the LLNS proposal would have been structured differently. On the other hand, with our usual certainty, any difficulties there might have been considered impossible at LLNL.
Seems like there are plenty of organizations flourishing as Federal contractors. We should be able to figure that out, too. But it will take time and probably some management succession. Even a dash of humility.
That's going to be a little difficult. I have heard that the contract was written in a way that UC can't back out for the full contract period (including renewals)which is up to 21 years. This was a bone of contention for the UC board of governors when they looked at the contract more closely after it was approved.
It reminded me of when congress had another rake the labs over the coals panels and were surprised the cost of running the labs had jumped hundreds of millions.
UC sold the lab employees down the river and sold their soul as well.
The LLNS ship is heading for the rocks. Bail out as soon as you can before you have a heart attack! Best thing: go into business for yourself, and take charge of your life. I did and I am doing great!
Neither of these two things are likely to happen.
April 29, 2009 7:15 PM
Shhhh! Keep quiet. Don't let the little secret get out.