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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April 6, 2016 at 4:58 PM
Exactly this is all the best and brightest can come with? Amazing no wander Bechtel had a hard time dealing with these people. Just amazing, simply amazing, beyond amazing.
April 6, 2016 at 5:42 PM
Yeah, well your wandering has gotten you nothing but derision and mocking on this blog, no matter how many posts you try to make faking support for yourself. Your hatred, self-confessed, for LANL, is documented. That makes every argument you make bogus. The fact that you don't understand that speaks volumes about your lack of education, perspective, and basic integrity. Please go away.
Bechtel bad, LANL good. That is the entire argument? Do you ever present reasons for this, do you ever give names of bad managers, do you ever have arguments as to why Bechtel has been bad for the lab? Nope never, all you say is Bechtel is baaaad, LANL is gooood.
Obviously you missed April 8, 2016 at 4:50 AM. Go back and read it. Satisfied now?
April 9, 2016 at 12:46 PM
Bechtel bad LANL good, same argument! Bechtel made the Hoover Dam, rebuilt Iraq from the ground up, turned the Congo into a first world thriving nation, supplied cheap water to Columbia, maintains our nuclear industry, and built the infrastructure of Boston. Now what has LANL done, oh yes it cannot even use its so called scientists to build a drum that will not blow up southern New Mexico, its scientists cause people to be electrocuted in at LANCE, wow LANL must be better than Bechtel! You do not see Bechtel scientists stealing Mustangs, losing disks, or being arrogant cowboys. Culture, culture, culture, culture you cannot fix culture, it is like what the Amazon guy said, cultures cannot be changed they can only be eliminated. They should pay Bechtel 10 billion a year with green light to do what has got to be done, close done LANL!!! It is the only sane and yes I really do mean SANE solution to the cultural problems. This bears repeating.
April 9, 2016 at 7:38 PM
No it doesn't because it is just the rantings of an clearly insane person. And BTW, there are no "Bechtel scientists." That is just a laughable idea. They are all second-rate construction engineers who build bridges and roads in third world countries for exorbitant prices. Big whoop.
Are you claiming that Bechtel managed to have people enrolled in TCP-1 after the contract transitioned? If so, how is that legal?
April 10, 2016 at 6:10 PM
Name the law you think it violates.
Suspect that it was offered to no one, and the claim of Bechtel getting a special deal is wrong; however, someone might have a smoking gun and now is the time to reveal it.
If there was a back deal that permitted some inclusion in the closed program after transition for special employees, and not for all new employees, then this is a very appropriate topic for this blog.
Just look at the stated intent of the blog, and if the privatization created different classes of retirement for new employees, this is big news.
April 11, 2016 at 2:50 PM
Dam, he deletes them before I can post them, true stealth indeed.
This is of no concern of yours, do you job and let them do theirs.
April 14, 2016 at 9:49 PM
Uh, ok. Just curious; what was your first language?
Uh, ok. Just curious; what was your first language?
April 15, 2016 at 10:24 AM
My first language is "PROFIT", its the reality baby, it hurts you because it is true. You have no right to put down those that saw a way to make money off on opportunity when they saw it, you are all just jealous because you did did not see this first as it presented itself in 2005, and that is on you, not the first movers who saw which way the wind be blowing. Money was to be made, money was made, and if you did not make the money than shut up as we all know that this is why you all are at LLNL in the first place. We all play the same game so you all cannot complain now cause you all did not win and others did, no different than Vegas baby, no different at all. Way of the world, a single defeat does not make the man or the woman, learn from this and make yourself stronger, smarter, better, and come back and you too could make some big money on the next contract change. Follow the money...wise words indeed. Way of the world, yes the way of the world.
April 17, 2016 at 9:09 PM
No, I think he just kicks the "baby" he keeps talking about. Downright creepy. He claims that with very little education (obvious from his writing), that "money was made" by him. Unlikely. Also, his confusing "profit" with simple award fee is telling regarding his understanding of business and economics. All in all, his crazy rants are always a substantial waste of time, and nothing to get too upset about.
Perhaps the poster is talking about the explosion of high paying management positions created after the contract change. The overhead rates also went through the roof to pay for these positions. There is a reason most managers are very happy with LLNLS and LANS.
He made a comment during a Hands-On meeting several years ago that basically told staff to "follow the money".
LANL culture is alive and strong, what does that tell us? What is LANL culture and why should we all fear it? Why am I crazy, was it due to LANL culture or my own life choices, well that is an easy one, LANL culture is to blame.
April 20, 2016 at 7:43 PM
If that were true, then everyone exposed to "LANL culture" would be crazy. Nope, it's just you.
If that were true, then everyone exposed to "LANL culture" would be crazy. Nope, it's just you.
April 21, 2016 at 9:59 AM
False, if you fight the LANL culture it can be very stressful and could end up causing psychological harm. You tell me what the alternatives are? My own life choices, this just cannot be true and I will not accept that.