What's the word on the June furlough-like event?
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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I don't know about other departments, it seems Akima folks are getting let go every week.
Also, in summer the 10% pay reduction begins, 2 days a month forced off with no pay, this addresses sequester shortfall in FY13.
Sorry dude, "one week of pay for every year worked up to 26 weeks" is not enoght to get rid of anyone. Better to be RIF's and laod off and draw two years of unempoyement that this chump change. Again, 2 weeks pay for every year of service or 1 years pay and 50% gone in one week.
Ding ding ding....we have a winner! tell him what he's won Johnny.
http://www.edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/warn/eddwarncnal13.pdf
So, kiss up to a manager if you want to stay or get on his bad side if you want to guarantee your entry into the RIF Raffle. But if there is a VSIP and you get between me and a door, you're at risk for tread marks as I beat feet.
They'll cut the oldsters....and they'll get another lawsuit....still less will get done....and morale will fall still further.
The whole lab can't consist exclusively of 20 somethings banging away on computer keyboards can it?
I don't believe that the labs need to issue a WARN type warning period for these types of offers. It was all executed very rapidly at LANL with only two weeks allowed for staff to think about taking the offer and out the door within the next 30 days.
At LANL, the VSP "offer" was extremely attractive to a lot of staff who were fed up and ready to get out. Along with the contractors who were fired, LANL reduced the workforce by around 12% in 2012.
It your turn, now, LLNL. Enjoy!
Yes, it can... except for the bloated management team, of course. These youngsters are: (a) energetic, (b) very cheap, (c) get much fewer benefits, and (d) don't see the labs as a long term career choice. They are a perfect fit for the new, "for-profit" NNSA science labs.
Of course, this may not be the best choice if you care about US national security but who worries about that any longer?
Define "extremely attractive".
April 20, 2013 at 2:06 PM
McMillan divided that figure by 2 for future RIFs immediately after this RIF. He got a nice untaxed bonus in return for this favor.
April 20, 2013 at 8:32 PM
Right. As if you have any evidence of that. Asshole.
April 21, 2013 at 1:20 PM
Oh shut up. PC police.
No. That would be illegal.
Just great! That's they way to hire the best.