Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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With a priority of "life and limb" protection of LANS employees and other employees within the DOE Complex, you are absolutely correct.
The priority is to CMA, cover management a*. That is all the matters.
These common standard operating procedures, apply and maintain due process, comply with legal and professional requirements and personnel HIPAA and work practice protections. It can be cumbersome and expensive, is part of he contract assuranes requirement, but may even be part of federal or civil procedures.
Yet we are impatient creatures, empowered by our anonymity.
THe punchline to a very old juvenile joke goes, "....patience, jackass".
You have raised valid procedural investigation steps that do take a reasonable amount of time to complete. In the interim, we can only hope
DOE and LANS have correctly and selflessly determined the LANSCE accident, within the flurry of accidents at LANL, does not require prompt preliminary protective measures against a comparable event at LANL or elsewhere in the Complex. To error on the side of human safety, preliminary findings and safety precautions subject to subsequent revision, might be the prudent path, unless you are arguing this is not an option on the managerial decision tree.
LANS has a poor record of being either informative or reassuring to the public and or their employees.
Why should they? It's none of your business.
Just do your job and keep your head down low.