Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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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?"