What does everyone think of the CIP at LLNL?
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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February 16, 2014 at 10:40 PM
Wrong. Liabilities remain the same, although percentage funding of the plan may increase. Liabilities are solely dependent on demographics and actuarial analysis.
There was no problem in handing out the last operating fund budget surplus.
Where else would you think it comes from? The cafeteria tip jar?
LLNS itself submitted the CIP, and its not a large one by any means. Save money by cutting overhead expenses.
February 17, 2014 at 12:50 PM
Nope. Management fee comes after NNSA ratings and is earned separately from the operating budget. It is illegal to mix the two.
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There was no problem in handing out the last operating fund budget surplus.
February 17, 2014 at 12:41 PM
Obviously there is no "surplus" if people are getting rif'ed.
Worth repeating. LNLS submitted the cip they could afford - it was not forced upon them.
No sense getting stingy over about a nominal pay raise, because they'd rather spend overhead dollars someplace else (and spend them they will - regardless of rifs).
Notice that the root word in management, "manage"!
In the future, why doesn't LLNS stop submitting cip packages for their employees?
Submit the only cip you can afford, or none.
That way you can also cut the costs of putting one together and its execution.
How are all the other DOE science & national labs handling their raise packages?
Wrong. LLNL submitted a CIP request that was larger than what DOE/NSA granted.
Some would have us believe that pay raises are absurd, and that they come out of operating fund is cause for alarm.
Pay raises are a normal cost of doing business, and yes they do come out of operating funds.
Cut overhead spending for savings.
POS
Of course LLNS will have to explain to DOE why all the other science and national lab employees received them.
My opinion, replenishing a fund that was emptied by discretionary spending with the employees pay raise is bad form.
50 people at WhatsApp created $17B in value for Facebook.
When the young folks leave in droves, CIPs get larger.
Or go in to your division leaders office and rationally express your displeasure. 180 visits will get her attention.
Kind of unbelievable, except that WhatsApp has over 450 million users outside of the US and Facebook is freaked out.
Maybe we can convince Facebook that Google is interested in Fusion Energy, and they better get on board !
February 23, 2014 at 10:08 AM
Seems to me the only reasonable thing to do is look for a better water source.
In the long run, they will have made a lot of trouble for the real owners.
And yes they'll be the ones to go away. Workers stay, management companies come & go.
In the long run, they will have made a lot of trouble for the real owners.
And yes they'll be the ones to go away. Workers stay, management companies come & go.
February 24, 2014 at 6:25 AM
From the comment at February 22, 2014 at 1:03 PM, under the Wednesday, February 19, 2014 top post:
"When the money dries up and the long knives come out, the "problems" are the first to go - so if people want to be "problems", fine, but they need to be willing and prepared to bail out."
I couldn't have said it better myself. The discussion was about some people on this blog apparently believing they are bullet-proof, like you.
Nice work environment. There are better ways of avoiding cip distributions.
February 24, 2014 at 2:55 PM
There are MUCH better ways of being satisfied and happy with your career. Most of them don't involve working for people you despise.
February 24, 2014 at 9:40 AM"
You really seem to misunderstand the posts. The labs are just the workforce and the most talented have either left, could leave if they like, or are close of enough to retirement that it does not matter. That is the catch about talent you have to treat it well or lose it. Yes the best are bulletproof. The results of this can already be seen as some of the best have left and the labs are no longer even close to the same level they once where. The management has learned the hard way the talent is not replaceable.
The workers are not the "problems", the workers where never the "problem". The workers are the lab, that management not so much. Get rid of the workers and you have only management and you have no lab. You have to be a fool not to think those outside the US have been watching this. There will be real consequences.
Nicely put. You can usually put up with high-level people you never interact with - after all, the Democrats survived Bush, and the Republicans will survive Obama. But when there is a systemic problem with management reaching down to your immediate supervisors and colleagues and making you miserable on a daily basis, it might be time to rethink why you work where you work.
Most people are getting out, but excuse them if they don't sing high praise for a company that has never given them the time of day.
February 26, 2014 at 7:10 PM
Yep - bullet through the brain.
February 26, 2014 at 9:07 PM"
Go for it.