LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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Do you want to make progress or not !
It's too bad we didn't have the option of getting the Chinese Science and Technology University system to pay for LIFE. We would be building high average power laser hardware today that would be exceeding all expectations.
It's truly sad that cutting edge/high payoff R&D in the national interest is no longer funded by DOE, DOD, NNSA, etc...
Elan Musk, please save us !
Elan Musk looked around and said " get me off this planet!"
Did Dick Cheney and Donald Drumpf lose 100 Billion here like he did in Iraq? Fixed it for you.
It speaks poorly of the candidate but paints the advocate as a fool.
Both candidates are poor leaders, lacking in solutions to our challenges who will not be followed by the electorate. Same as now.
Obama's cry "it's not so bad" or Krugman's "NYC is safer thsn ever" within spitting distance of the 9/11 gives an unsettling dystopian aura to the leadership vacuum. Either leaders provide solutions to problems like debt, globalization and the Mad Muslim Menace or we suffer the alternative.
Neither has. Neither seems likely to.