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 The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills.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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LANL Report:
In the most recent review of the lab’s performance, dated Dec. 6, the NNSA slashed the performance bonus paid to the lab’s managers, arguing they had failed to meet the agency’s requirements for “ahead of schedule performance” on the project, which the lab had said earlier would be operational by 2011.
It is partially occupied, but equipment installation for the laboratory space is ongoing. The lab’s management team, led by corporate giant Bechtel and the University of California, had claimed it was entitled to a $700,000 performance bonus for its work on the office building and lab, but NNSA only agreed to $176,000.
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Gotta love watching the Bechtel pigs at the top of the LLC's "for-profit" management chain secretly fighting for their executive bonus loot while the hard working employees who do the hard lifting to met these PBIs get.... NOTHING!!!!
I see LDRD gets a negative ranking. What for it did not say.
If NNSA thought they could kill it off, they would do so immediately. They may try again to end it at some later date.
People seem to be expressing themselves fine enough. Not like this blog has stalled like the already-moribund LANL VSP blog.
April 6, 2012 8:28 PM
This is the LANL Blog. We thought we would move in just like Anastasio, McMillan, and King Knapp moved into our house. Thanks for the accommodations, the pajamas, robe, newspaper, couch, dog, bed, and Blog are great!
How is not fair process? I thought the AD's pick what they want. The rest is competed with like a 8% success rate.
10:34 AM seems a little early to be drunk but that is your choice.
April 7, 2012 7:03 PM
Really?? Did you absolutely have to include that last part?? You are what's wrong with our society. Can't disagree without being disagreeable. Sad.
Imagine the CEO of Intel coming out saying, "We make excellent processors. I'm real pleased with that. But why again are we wasting all this money on chip design?"