Today is the first day 
(1/7/13) that "excluded" workers at LANS were eligible to apply for 
other jobs.  We had been prohibited for doing so for 1-year since the 
last VRIP.  Note also that LANS did a great job during the past year to 
ensure that we will remain in these "crappy" jobs (e.g. Facility 
Engineers) into the future, since there are virtually no open job 
advertisements for Regular Employees at LANL.  I'm also posting this to 
give folks at LLNL and SNL a heads-up on what is coming your way. Hecka 
of job LANS leading the way, hecka of job!  
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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You got a bucket?
You got a Top Secret clearance?
You got a MS in nuclear engineering?
Get to work and start cleaning the floors. That just about sums up this bleak situation.
January 13, 2013 at 7:44 AM
LANS has no problem with this model, it's another effective way of eliminating the staff, whether they are in rubber bags with a zipper or canvas with a leather belt on it.