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Has anyone heard any facts/rumors about what the possible raise packages will be?
Has anyone heard any facts/rumors about what the possible raise packages will be?
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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The Laboratory will not print salary cards in order to use the more efficient Lapis on-line system. I wouldn't be surprised that some directorates end up printing some sort of notification to give the group leader something tangible to hand over.
The rumor is. It's all a big secret now. You'll be interviewed by your supervisor sometime in Feb at which time you can express your dismay, all of which will be noted and sent back to the division office. At that time they'll release your < adequate pay raise and for some a reduction in salary. After Feb 18th you can log into LAPIS and find out what they think of you as an employee. Key note here. Know your base pay / hourly rate for this year and take note if you went + or -. You will never know what your co-worker is making again unless they're willing to tell you. Contact your Ombudsman if you have any issues. Good luck.
As to why salary cards are not being distributed? I can thing of two reasons:
1. Cost - same reason we're not getting pay stubs. The reasoning here is that every one has access to the web pages at the lab, push some electrons hither and yon and voila, no printing charges.
2. A more nefarious reason is that when you hand out bad news personally you are in close proximity to the person who may not be welcoming that bad news. Early in my career I had an inept supervisor who also was a coward. His method was to hand out the raise cards and then take vacation as soon as the last card was handed out.
If you do notification by proxy through the web, you can take vacation before the bad news comes out. Ain't technology grand?
Of course, all of this and more could be eaten up by TCP1 employee contributions in the not too distant future. Plan on kicking in 2% to 4% of your salary to the pension if you are in TCP1.
So you get 1.5% and they take up to 4%, then they increase your medical cost and state taxes and what do you have. How about one big wopping pay cut not counting what's going to happen to a few who're going to see a (-) pay raise anyway. I've already seen the medical and state tax decrease in pay. I've standing by with the KY so it doesn't hurt to much. I love LLNS....
There are zero plans for TPC1 employee contributions. TPC1 is still well overfunded. I guess you missed GM's discussion on this exact issue at his all-hands.
January 31, 2010 8:00 AM
You'd be amazed at how quickly this can change. Try not to act overly shocked when salary contributions for TCP1 kick in at some future date.
Be very careful putting too much trust in the words of the LLCs.
Looks like they're well on their way to gradually working their way up to the 16% contributions to TCP-1 that was talked about during the transition. Oh my !! could it be another lie they told you. Can't wait I need another pay cut.
Great things are happening at the NNSA labs. Join the team and help lead these labs to excellence. You can do it... NNSA and LLNS will be helping you all the way!
until you get old, then we fire you.
I hope they take the excess of TCP-1'er are always braging about and use it to bail the state out of debt. I've already written sacramento and pointed them in the right direct.