LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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PBIs, Baby! It's all that matters and all that NNSA really cares about. BTW, have you noticed that not a single PBI involves science and research? Message heard, NNSA, loud and clear.
Energy policy?
Nuclear power resolved?
Weapons complex stabilized?.
Renewable energy lab?
DOE mediocrity eliminated?.
Spent fuel storage resolved?
Gas prices are sky high?
The best small automotive diesels thrive in...Asia, Europe, South America?
Large scale ethanol for auto use?
The LLCs still exist.
Is he trying? White roads? Really? Is he the Mandarin's scientific curio?
Even O'bama tried something.
Chu earned his Nobel as a scientist. Bravo. It may or may not be relevant when it comes to leading/coercing/enduring the bureaucracy.
Many of the topics listed are broad policy issues with many non-technical influences. I think Chu is more sincerely interested in, and knowledgeable of, energy policy than any other Secretary until one goes back to Schlesinger. The nation has floundered around on nuclear power, spent fuel, etc. for decades. Chu was suppose to resolve that in two years? Large scale ethanol is as much about agricultural subsidies and trade policy toward Brazil.
He's trying, but D.C. is probably giving him a big headache.
People follow leaders, politicians form consensus.
If he said. "We failed. DOE is useless, it needs to go." and began shutting it down, it would at least begin somethingpositive, and by the way, not hurt the country one bit.
Yes!? needs want to do. It is time to sit on a pot or find bathroom. To post to drunk by 10pm.
January 31, 2011 6:41 AM
Wow, what?? Nothing in your post applies to the post you reference. Maybe you are the one with the head in the toilet? Still drunk at 7:00 am?
January 29, 2011 9:34 PM
Nothing compared to the headache he's giving us!!