From the Huffington Post Why Workplace Jargon Is A Big Problem http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/work-words_n_5159868.html?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business When we replace a specific task with a vague expression, we grant the task more magnitude than it deserves. If we don't describe an activity plainly, it seems less like an easily achievable goal and more like a cloudy state of existence that fills unknowable amounts of time. A fog of fast and empty language has seeped into the workplace. I say it's time we air it out, making room for simple, concrete words, and, therefore, more deliberate actions. By striking the following 26 words from your speech, I think you'll find that you're not quite as overwhelmed as you thought you were. Count the number that LLNLs mangers use. touch base circle back bandwidth - impactful - utilize - table the discussion deep dive - engagement - viral value-add - one-sheet deliverable - work product - incentivise - take it to the ...
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Never going to happen again. I've heard several PADs say as much. You'll be lucky to get severance when they kick you out the front gate.
You now work for a for-profit Frankenstein corporate creation called an LLC. You are a disposable commodity in their eyes, especially if your "sell by" date indicates you are 50+.
LANL has started to lose them...get rid of them actually. At least two divisions yesterday dumped most of their affiliates effective close-of-business today. Hiring is nearly frozen, purchases over $100K are nearly frozen. Lots of people are unfunded or facing de-funding.
And they're still trying to sell the fantasy that they can attract the best and brightest in science and engineering.
Thanks Congress! Great job! Thanks LANS!
Even Art would not make such a definitive assertion. The future is not certain.
Never is a long time....The policy for incentiving separations is still in the current policies and procedures manual. A VSP with incentives can be a useful tool if the situation demands.
PADs are as ephemeral morning fog. Tomorrow brings another day, another PAD, and another opinion; some fragrant, some foul.
Maybe, but maybe not. Some of the staff who are reaching retirement age bring in funds and projects to the lab. Their loss with retirement will result in a loss of funding for the labs.
December 4, 2011 2:57 PM
Depends. Some WFO projects at LANL are "overfunded" for next year, i.e., trouble getting all the work done unless they can hire, except there is now a hiring freeze. LANL has gotten itself in serious trouble in the recent past with such shenanigans, where a one-size-fits-all hiring freeze causes funded programs to under-perform, resulting in loss of projects that could have continued to bring in substantial funding. It's called lousy management. No thought involved. The idea that talented staff in underfunded programs could be moved to funded ones is too hard to figure out for LANL's crack management team. Better to move highly-experienced weapons people to environmental cleanup. Idiots!
-- Overheard coming from the mouth of Bret Knapp during a PAD executive retreat???
-- Overheard coming from the mouth of Bret Knapp during a PAD executive retreat???
December 5, 2011 12:23 PM
Yep, sounds just like UC in the 1960's: "Just drop off the money out back and we'll eventually get around to telling you how we spent it." Worked when all the Lab did was weapons development and testing. No need to itemize accounts or justify allocations. A manager's dream.
December 5, 2011 12:23 PM
That does sounds like Knapp! Whatever he can't understand needs to be "junked". And that's alot of stuff for Knapp, who can't read or write.
December 5, 2011 12:30 PM"
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And the lab works great right now?
Give us break
"You're free to head out the front door anytime you like. Don't let the door hit your butt on the way out, cowboy."
December 11, 2011 11:14 AM
Is that you Pete Nanos?