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 The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills.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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This will end up hurting what little credibility is left for LLNL. They've run out of stuff to "spin" on the subject of NIF.
As Sam Spade stated in the Maltese Falcon - 'It's the stuff dreams are made of.'
There will never again be a buyout that gives you retirement credits. Those days are dead and gone. The layoff policy was re-written to make it easier and cheaper to boot us out the door. The best you can hope for is 1 week of service for 1 year of employment. No sweetener for your retirement which would be on ongoing cost. It's still better than the outside world. That golden handshake - you are 20 years late to that party.
DOE/NNSA/LLNS - They ain't here for your health.
June 9, 2012 8:30 PM
Only to those who labor under the misconception that the public gives a shit about the US nuclear weapons community. Most don't even know it exists. If you don't have any relatives that live in states who have no NWC presence, or if you have no relatives or friends who have no reason to know about the NWC, you are living in a fishbowl and are sorely out of touch with mainstream US society. Nobody, absolutely nobody, gives a crap about you and your problems. Congress is the least of your problems.
Has been what?? Spent? Wasted? Invested? Lost? Try completing a sentence if you want an answer to your question.
June 10, 2012 9:12 PM
I can appreciate your frustration. This poor guy who can't complete a sentence must be an engineer or physicist from Livermore (LLNL). Not only can he not complete a sentence but can't "complete" or "finish" anything (i.e. X-ray laser, NIF, Laser Isotope Separation (LIS), Brilliant Pebbles, MFTF, etc.). I hate to be his wife.
You're his wife???
June 11, 2012 8:01 AM
Yeah, I am son, unfortunately, I don't know who your daddy is.