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 The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills.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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Not that being a liberal is a bad thing, but on this shallow evidence you claim some knowledge of Scooby's political leanings?
As to the general point, there appear to be no lack of non-libertarian conservatives who are hoping to make some sort of 'right' behavior compulsory.
Liberals are "mommies".
Conservatives are "loners".
Mommies know best and tell everyone what to do.
Loners listen to no one.
Should be on different planets. Mars, Venus?
Unless you create a time machine, we are not going back to the 1850s slavery or "separate but equal" Jim Crow 1950s.
This country is a better country than it was in its past, and will be a better country in the furute than it is now.
November 22, 2011 9:54 PM
By that I assume you mean requiring people to obey the law. What insensitivity!
November 23, 2011 11:56 AM
If only. Then the moderates among us could actually get something done.
I agree it was insighful but I got tired of CUT & PASTing comments where they belong. I have a life and the BLOG keeping is a free service.
I value your input but also value my time. Your comment is so insightful that I am sure you will be able to make it again under the post now that it is published.
Well at least you made an ass out of yourself.
November 24, 2011 11:23 PM
Why doesn't your mommy change your diaper and let you down from your baby chair so you can comment on the subject yourself? Wah, wah, wah....
Washington Post article
will show why the 'automatic' cuts will likely be legislated away.
The supercommittee member do not concern themselves with the welfare of the elements of the triad or any other part of the national fabric. They are concerned with their own egotistical view, at the expense of necessary compromise for the general welfare.
Failures all.
J. Barth
J. Barth
November 27, 2011 6:34 PM
Oops, the Professor is back. Anyway, if you think we ought to pay our legislators more money, you are a fool.
"Actually", 'conservative' George Wallace certainly had the civil liberties of African-Americans at heart when he stood in the doorway at the University of Alabama.
November 28, 2011 10:16 PM
"Actually", that was 48 1/2 years ago. I think you are pushing your point a little too far.
November 30, 2011 11:19 AM
The statistic is not based on current LANL employees. It is based on thousands of LANL/UC retirees with 35+ years of service and six-figure incomes due to UC pensions and good investment income. If real estate ownership were included, the figures would be much higher for these owners of 400k homes whose mortgages are paid off.
November 30, 2011 11:19 AM
You should have sold last year. This news of lab cuts is going to quickly put a damper on the Hill housing market.
December 1, 2011 3:28 AM
Of course it is. No one living in Los Alamos has as much money to spend as the Bechtel Boys.
The cuts start in Jan 2013 but actions to mitigate their effect through staffing reductions will probably begin by late next summer or the fall. Plan on about a 10% RIF to handle the first round of cuts with additional RIFs in the succeeding years. It will be very ugly.