Why is a Budget that's different from a Budget Request considered short-fall?
The programs are fine, for the most part they live within their budgets (except NIF).
Overhead, in particular the support functions, will need to be adjusted. End of story.
All the hubris reminds me of chicken little.
The programs are fine, for the most part they live within their budgets (except NIF).
Overhead, in particular the support functions, will need to be adjusted. End of story.
All the hubris reminds me of chicken little.
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Add to the fact that the sequestion will probably continue on into FY14 (the Senate and House are so far apart [in a way like NIF and ignition], that there will be no compromise). And of course let us not forget that all the labs are paying a `tax' for the pension liability.
Finally, expect NIF to take a huge funding hit going forward and it gets ugly, very ugly in FY14. forward.
Let's hope congress looks at the $17T debt and says no more funding to any national lab or projects that cannot immediately give results that ease foreign oil dependency, generate electric, secure all points of entry and assure all communications are monitored 100% .
NIF had received a temporary $100 million boost for a couple years to fast track ignition.
Let NIF learn how to manage their program and its budget. All budgets vary from year to year, its an important lesson to learn.
The rest of the lab's programs have already given NIF an $85 million gift.
May 27, 2013 at 3:59 PM
That's only the tip of the iceberg!
There is no need for it now and there is no need for any further studies on EoS. We know it work, build them and keep them up to date, refurbished and that's all the nation needs.
Your asinine assumption that people VSP'ing are unhappy shows your level of intelligence. Many are VSP'ing simply because they want to retire and are getting a bonus to do so. I know at least a dozen who are VSP'ing and are extremely competent people who love working at the Lab. But, I suppose that doesn't fit the agenda of this website and especially the sour and pathetic people here who constantly post negatively about the Lab and hope it fails. I for one truly feel sorry for you lot.
On the other hand, the NIF-to-non-NIF ratio is pretty large. Just the poor prospects for job stability in non-NIF programs might be enough to push some over the edge. Can't say it they are happy or not. If they are jumping ship onto the google cruise liner, then they are laughing all the way to the bank.
that not all the VSP people are unhappy.
This is NOT a good deal- Last time around, Los Alamos got twice the cash we were offered.
But that was the best we could expect, and it was clear that working conditions were getting worse every day. Each new announcement had another Take Away, from closing the cafeterias, to closing HR and Finance during the lunch hours, the only time likely many had to see them.
Q. Just curious, is there much more that they can take away?
Sure hope the verdicts from the lawsuits for those people fired due to age discrimination sticks, and changes LLNS behavior. They actually might not have been discriminating based on age, but rather competency, (They knew too much :-( ) or salary.
May 30, 2013 at 4:55 PM
Not quite. If you CAN get a better deal elsewhere, yes. If you merely THINK so, with no research or evidence to support your "thought," not so much.
May 31, 2013 at 8:30 PM
I dunno, my own spaniel is pretty great. Chases rabbits out of my garden. And, I can call him by his first name (he really doesn't have a second name) without anyone wondering whether I have a man-crush on him.
Eeeeewwwwwwww
May 31, 2013 at 10:28 PM
Yeah, that's the point - oozing. Yuck. Man crush? Nah - that's not how I roll. Try to stay away from his cologne.