Anonymous wants to know if an average of 1% raise motivate you to excel.
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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That was sarcasm in case you missed it...
Layoffs
More Rules
More Regulations
Ambiguous Mission
An ever widening gap between upper management and the workers
and of course
1% raise (if you've been nice)
Yup, that's what gets my motor started in the morning, raring to go to help save the nation for another day.
Look at your raises. They are basically telling you to go away. It is a form of constructive discharge.
Leaving LLNL is painful. But the only way you can grow is facing hard reality. Otherwise you just keep taking the happy drugs until it kills you.
After years of bad pay, lousy leadership, insults, and abuse any sane person should be seriously questioning why they still want to continue what is at best a highly toxic relationship.
Take the deep breath and make a break for the door. The sooner you do, the happier you'll be once you discover life outside the Lab.