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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His complaint that a replacement was not in his opinion qualified, is matter of dispute. The hiring manager and responsible individual disagreed.
So we see very effective and well stated safety and work authorization procedures being followed by all, imcluding Rivera, perhaps peckishly.
What Moniz must decide is whether the safety issues Rivera , a senior technician, continued to raise cocerns in the face opposition of other reviewers, more experienced engineers, who better educated and experienced subject matter experts. Or were the congression law considerations, misappropriation of public funds by an unauthorized individual more important.
Either way Moniz decides this issue, the LLNL safe work authorization process works well.
Remember his narrow subject matter expertise relative to available etech positions lead his to be between assignments, like many other techs, for a number of periods over those periods of low funding. That he, along with 1700 very qualified and long-serving LLNL employees were released as a direct result of the increased costs of administering LLNL after the NNSA contact rebid blunders of 2007 and 2008 is not evidence of being fired for whistleblowing. Too many others like him were frogmarched out of LLNL on that shameful day.
Not sure what Moniz will do, but we wish him well. He did what he thought was right.
October 12, 2015 at 6:05 PM
So you think this blog is the only venue where these things get aired? Parochial.
BOTH OF THESE COST INCREASES OCCURED BECAUSE, IN SPITE OF BEING EXPLICITLY WARNED OF MUCH HIGHER COSTS, TRULY INCOMPETENT NNSA FOOLS WENT FORWARD WITH THE LLNL CONTACT REBID IN SPITE OF MASSIVE UNREIMBURSED ($150M) COSTS AT LANL DUE TO THE CONTACT REBID THERE.
NNSA stpidly plodded onward in face of sure knowledge of their error, costing Rivera and 1700 others their emploment...
..WHILE COSTS TO THE TAXPAYER, 1.5B, REMAINED THE SAME. 30% LESS WORK AND NO COST SAVINGS.
Bodner, d'Agostino and Pryzbylek are among
THE worst, most incompetent employees ever to mismanage government processes. I wish for each a painful, restless, quick, unhappy demise.
Nero is your memory.
Did you think that your shouting (in caps) would enhance your credibility? Nope. Try some more respect and civility when you post. But I guess as one who hopes for others "a painful, restless, quick, unhappy demise," you will not follow my advice. So much hate, so little perspective or knowledge or understanding. Well, luckily no one listens to people like you.
"...The employer has not sustained its burden to show that the claimant's conduct was willful or wanton under the circumstances and therefore has not shown misconduct. Accordingly, the employer discharged the claimant for reasons other than misconduct..."
It would seem after hearing testimony and case document analysis, the LLNS "for cause" dismissal allegation based on "poor performance" and "poor conduct" did not hold water with the Judge. The "under the circumstances" suggests LLNS did not apply its set of employment policies correctly or consistently in some manner, or the policies referenced by LLNS were irrelevant to the matter at hand.
Does this open the window for a FMLA violation complaint to the Department of Labor on top of Mr. Rivera's DOE complaint?