Are Employees at Los Alamos National Laboratory Suffering Same Fate as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Employees?
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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April 24, 2012 7:10 PM
And these are (mostly) employees who are supposedly working 9 hour days Mon - Thurs except 8 hours on Fri and every other Fri off. I am often coming "up the hill" around 3 - 3:30 pm and the line of cars going down is unbelievable. If the Lab ever decides to enforce time-card fraud, it would be a quick and painless way to get rid of a whole lot of employees. We used to call them "dead wood." The proof is easy and there is no "protected class" or "discrimination" defense. Unfortunately, the managers who would have to gather the evidence are also committing the same fraud. This is ripe for Congressional investigation.
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Ahh, but this is exactly what LANS and LLNL want. Remember the only thing that counts is safety and security. As one of the reports said about the contracts is they are really only about punishment there is no award for accomplishing something like science or breakthroughs. To LLNLS and LANS every employee is a liability not an asset so the less time people are at the lab the better. Someone who never shows up also never has a safety or security problem and that is the perfect employee. As for a Congressional investigation forget about it we are a private corporation now. By the way has anyone thought about having a for-profit company running the secret service?
Oh, but it is - the whole Government too.
I observe this day in and day out.
April 25, 2012 9:33 PM
Taxpayers have many more and bigger things to be "bothered" about. However, as a person who believes in moral and ethical behavior, yeah, it bothers me a lot. These slackers, who seem to care as little about their own careers and futures as their employer does, I say "why?" Are you that dead to your own potential and interests? Are you that "trapped" in your job that you feel you'll never be worth anything better? And I hesitate to say it, but are you that sunk into your dead-end existence living in the same little community your ancestors have lived in for many generations without raising or bettering themselves, that you will do anything or compromise your integrity in any way to stay in that rut? Recognize that in perpetuating that situation, you perpetuate the widely-held belief that education and advancement are not priorities for you and your neighbors, and that dependence on government is your only hope and goal.
Gives me gas, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes pleasant.
"Stay on topic
No foul language
No name calling"
These were violated in NONE of the deleted posts. Like I said, just juvenile. Like the cartoon dog.
May 8, 2012 9:31 AM
HeHeHe - don't you just love living up to your rep?