University of New Mexico (UNM) will announce proposal to take over management of SNL from Lockheed Martin.
http://www.abqjournal.com/778530/details-emerge-on-sandia-competition.html
This makes me sick. UNM and SNL are already too cozy. There is a constant flow of third rate UNM interns and grads to SNL. It's so inbred with UNM grads in most departments now, that applicants from schools like Caltech, Princeton, Stanford, MIT and Harvard are actually passed up in favor of buddies from UNM. And if they do take a job at SNL, they are routinely passed up for promotion in favor of the UNM grad who has friends and family all working at SNL.
If UNM takes over management, this is just going to make a bad situation worse.
http://www.abqjournal.com/778530/details-emerge-on-sandia-competition.html
This makes me sick. UNM and SNL are already too cozy. There is a constant flow of third rate UNM interns and grads to SNL. It's so inbred with UNM grads in most departments now, that applicants from schools like Caltech, Princeton, Stanford, MIT and Harvard are actually passed up in favor of buddies from UNM. And if they do take a job at SNL, they are routinely passed up for promotion in favor of the UNM grad who has friends and family all working at SNL.
If UNM takes over management, this is just going to make a bad situation worse.
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#WAITING TO PISS ON HIS GRAVE
It has never recovered. Under a ridgid contract term, management loses initiative, vitality and independence disappear, good people leave and you become rule bound, where personel and technical excellence becomes a slogan rather than an endeavor. Ask anyone if they attend conferences, take technical training or publish today. No? But rules are followed, fees awarded and old timers wonder where the capable leaders dispeared to.
Have a plan B.
That is an odd statement, I have no idea what your experience at LLNL is but the lab is no longer the same place that it was before 2007 everything has been downgraded. If you are legit than just find someone who worked at the lab before 2007 and ask them what they think of the lab now. I am sure you enjoy your work but things have changed at the labs. Another issue that is a bit more touchy but is very relevant is that the quality of people have also changed and that may have to be taken into account when you consider how the newer people feel about the place. To be honest some of the hires after 2007 would not have been hired before 2005. This of course is also due to the fact that LLNL lost some appeal to the most qualified people who simply no longer apply to the LLNL or LANL.
On a personal level if you enjoy your job and work at LLNL than do the best job you can and make the most of it. No one should be blamed for taking advantage of an opportunity when in comes along.