I think the recent Ellen Pao lawsuit is going to have an impact on LLNL staff relations.
http://recode.net/2015/03/06/women-outperformed-men-and-a-sexual-predator-was-on-the-loose-kleiner-perkins-investigator-opens-up/
Staff
relations has a history of blaming the victim and easing out employees
who are victims of retaliation or seen as "problems" by the management.
Management also has a history of making highly personal attacks on
performance appraisals that have no relevance to actual performance.
That isn't working in the Ellen Pao case. Of course at the lab,
management "picks the winners" and pushes down those it doesn't like.
This highly subjective criterion doesn't play well in the courtroom.
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This thread can disappear now - it's over, and Pao lost.
Does the real world ever affect the culture of the Labs?
Sorry to say, I can imagine that the Ellen Pao lawsuit is going to put a big damper on high powered firms hiring women who don't previously have a strong work experience and reputation. Bad for new women grads.
Self-absorbed, arrogant, pain-in-the-ass people are never fun to work with, women or men. Pao is the poster child. Listen to the juror comments.
" Self-absorbed, arrogant, pain-in-the-ass people are never fun to work with, women or men."
However they are the ones that get the attention and get it done. The modern world is about getting other people to pay attention to you and that is all there is to it.
The modern world is about getting other people to pay attention to you and that is all there is to it.
March 29, 2015 at 7:38 PM
In case you missed it, Pao learned just the opposite. But just go on ignoring reality, it seems to work for you.
Being likable is a big factor anywhere. It's clear that Pao didn't have this. At Livermore I have seen unqualified people promoted into upper management because they went to an Ivy League school and everyone thought they were smart, regardless of the evidence. Sometimes these people had no peer reviewed articles or had even falsified their work. People's opinion of you matters.
Reputation is everything. By having an affair with a married, male colleague, who was subsequently fired for making sexual advances towards a second female colleague, I think Ms. Pao lost all creditability in the eyes of the jury. Even if her case had some merit. You can't say "I loved him" and slept with him willingly, then sue to company.
Interesting article, although somewhat black and white
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/03/30/thankyouellenpao-only-if-you-like-bullying-vexatious-opportunists/
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