Contributed anonymously and moved here, as its own post from the "look in your mail box" post:
What is it about Business Operations that makes it the enemy of those of us trying to get work done?
1. Higher medical costs,and higher deductibles and copays so they can give more fee to LLNS?
2. Cheating employees out of benefits, such as dumping medicare age retirees?
3. Being unforgiving of mistakes?
4. Retroactively raising mnapower burden rates after long after contracts with sponsors have been signed because they can't do arithmetic. Then forcing that engineering employees families to pay the bill as the employees have to work harder, with less support and much longer OT hours and longer to get contracted work done: again so that Business Operations metrics are made so Frank and senior management can make their bonus?
5. Increasing the burden rates on personnel by 15% in one year.
6. The fact that none of the Business Operations Division Leaders and above have even worked at the the lab, and they don't care what impact that they are having on people or programs as long as they make their bonus.
6. The fact that they make bonus whether or not LLNL functions.
LLNL Business Operations (aka the useless gunslinger Russo and his band of Becthel aliens) are failing to support Programs adequately.
They were to bring in a ready made project management system. They failed.
They were to keep manpower burden rates to FY07 levels, they failed.
LLNL technical personnel are stressed,harried and failing to meet technical and performance milestones as they continue to compensate the results for the Business Operations shortfalls of planning and execution.
Business Operations is plotting to minimize employee salary increases and cap salaries through the new 200 compensation category scheme that Frank needed to roll out on 1 Oct to make his bonus.
Management is only in place to help programs get work done, yet they failed to keep support adequate and we are failing together.
Senior management of Business Operations sits isolated in their offices, with no knowledge or contact with those implementing programs and tasks, and they don't care that they fail to support the successful operations of the Lab.
Those of us who still want the lab to succeed should carefully examine whether cooperating with any of the Business Operations robbers efforts will actually undermine laboratory success, if so perhaps helping them fail to meet their bonuses will insure laboratory success.
It will be better for all if we make sure Frank hits the road real soon.
What is it about Business Operations that makes it the enemy of those of us trying to get work done?
1. Higher medical costs,and higher deductibles and copays so they can give more fee to LLNS?
2. Cheating employees out of benefits, such as dumping medicare age retirees?
3. Being unforgiving of mistakes?
4. Retroactively raising mnapower burden rates after long after contracts with sponsors have been signed because they can't do arithmetic. Then forcing that engineering employees families to pay the bill as the employees have to work harder, with less support and much longer OT hours and longer to get contracted work done: again so that Business Operations metrics are made so Frank and senior management can make their bonus?
5. Increasing the burden rates on personnel by 15% in one year.
6. The fact that none of the Business Operations Division Leaders and above have even worked at the the lab, and they don't care what impact that they are having on people or programs as long as they make their bonus.
6. The fact that they make bonus whether or not LLNL functions.
LLNL Business Operations (aka the useless gunslinger Russo and his band of Becthel aliens) are failing to support Programs adequately.
They were to bring in a ready made project management system. They failed.
They were to keep manpower burden rates to FY07 levels, they failed.
LLNL technical personnel are stressed,harried and failing to meet technical and performance milestones as they continue to compensate the results for the Business Operations shortfalls of planning and execution.
Business Operations is plotting to minimize employee salary increases and cap salaries through the new 200 compensation category scheme that Frank needed to roll out on 1 Oct to make his bonus.
Management is only in place to help programs get work done, yet they failed to keep support adequate and we are failing together.
Senior management of Business Operations sits isolated in their offices, with no knowledge or contact with those implementing programs and tasks, and they don't care that they fail to support the successful operations of the Lab.
Those of us who still want the lab to succeed should carefully examine whether cooperating with any of the Business Operations robbers efforts will actually undermine laboratory success, if so perhaps helping them fail to meet their bonuses will insure laboratory success.
It will be better for all if we make sure Frank hits the road real soon.
Comments
And I'm not from Business Ops myself.
Did NNSA choose poorly when they selected LLNS?
And in case you missed it, this response is dripping in satire.
Hi there Business Ops! Your so-called "cost-cutting" has utterly failed, you whiz-kids! Just checked the new Lab Pricer and I currently cost my projects 3.5x my salary. That means I have 2.5 overhead people supported off my work- or more likely 1.5 excessively paid "managers". The time is NOW Bechtel- show us how tough you are and toss out the useless non-technical, zero-business-acumen managers! Let's do the layoff right this time! Go get 'em boys! Want to improve staff morale? Walk off 50 high-paid useless managers- treat them exactly the way they treated the dedicated scientists they disposed of last May. No tears will fall this time, except maybe tears of joy. Lose 50 managers, save 50 million a year and increase productivity- imagine that!
October 14, 2009 10:34 PM
Since you seem to know how much Bechtel managers make, then you must know how many "Bechtel" managers there are (or should I say how few of them there are). How many overpaid and under effective residual "UC" managers (and former managers)still exist?
"We have met the enemy, and he is us."
You have no true sense of who now controls LLNL and for whose benefit, do you, 6:19?
LLNL has been "captured" by the carpet-baggers from Bechtel and the upper management class which now runs it for THEIR benefit, not yours. How foolish of you to think otherwise. Dream on.
sell it on ebay and claim my raise!!!!
The new work control process adds more work to F&I, but instead of doing maintenance, they are now pushing more paper and hindering getting real work done. Just what we didn't need.
"Our facilities need significant maintenance, but we ISP'd the blue collar folks who do that type of work". those of us in the treches have been cleaning our own offices and walking the trash out for over a year now. How does this affect bus ops? Sweep your own floors like the rest of us!