From the Huffington Post Why Workplace Jargon Is A Big Problem http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/work-words_n_5159868.html?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business When we replace a specific task with a vague expression, we grant the task more magnitude than it deserves. If we don't describe an activity plainly, it seems less like an easily achievable goal and more like a cloudy state of existence that fills unknowable amounts of time. A fog of fast and empty language has seeped into the workplace. I say it's time we air it out, making room for simple, concrete words, and, therefore, more deliberate actions. By striking the following 26 words from your speech, I think you'll find that you're not quite as overwhelmed as you thought you were. Count the number that LLNLs mangers use. touch base circle back bandwidth - impactful - utilize - table the discussion deep dive - engagement - viral value-add - one-sheet deliverable - work product - incentivise - take it to the ...
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Nuth'in gonna change. Learn to live with it or leave it. Those are your only choices.
At the new SF 49er stadium the NFL ordered drug testing for one of the union companies because an employee posted a questionable photo on Facebook holding a beer can at the new stadium during construction.
The company had ~70 employees on site.
Six employees failed the alcohol/drug tests and 30 walked off the site refusing to test.
This is a modern union. I see this as a form of welfare that most unions live off the government.
WHy not an open letter to Jerry Brown. He is a union hack. He accepted 80 million in campaign money from unions and now it is payback time for Jerry to give them some nice work and pensions with that new tax increase.
Only California and New York have unions out of control. A majority of states are Right to WOrk where an employee is not forced to be in a union nor pay dues.
What is wrong with an individual choosing to join or not join a union?
Let's make California a Right to Work state.
Then if you choose to join a union, fine but if you do not want to be a drone then you do not have to.
On topic, the blunder of privatizing the labs is well known and often described in the blog.
If the clock can be turned back, disbanding LANS and LLNS, returning lab management directly to UC, with NNSA and congress staff committing virtual hari kari, it would save taxpayers about $300M per year to operate LLNL and LANL and productivity would double, after employees stopped cheering.
February 15, 2013 at 7:49 PM
Yep, real likely. Time to put down the crack pipe.
Like a union guy hating the Lab that provided a living.....hmmmmbite the hand that feeds you...typical union mentality.
If you feel that Chu ignored the labs, remember that Obama chose him for the office. Do you really expect a sea change with the next DOE secretary?