Anonymous said...
NIF is dumping people. Unknown why but rumor has it that they are getting rid of dead wood.
May 4, 2009 5:06 PM
NIF is dumping people. Unknown why but rumor has it that they are getting rid of dead wood.
May 4, 2009 5:06 PM
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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I am sure that some of this is also because the construction is all but finished and NIF no longer requires the talents of these people. NIF simply cannot support or afford anyone that is not essential (as determined by management) to the operation of the laser or the associated research. The cold hard fact is that LLNL and NIF is a business oriented operation and if you are not needed you will be sent back to your matrix organization or shown the door. The people that were laid off were walked out.
They (ULM) try to keep this below the radar, but sometimes it become obvious. We just have to get use to this; it has happened, it is happening, and it will continue to happen until this place closes down.
I have seen them get rid of a lot of very good people and keep buttsniffs who have to be supervised on a daily basis.