When are people going to recognize the FACT that the lazy culture at LANL, in the non-science areas, is the root problem.
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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Could you care to elaborate on what you mean? Did this come out of some recent management brain storming session? Something like this, " hey we tried blaming scientists and engineers since 2000, the well has run dry, any ideas...how about a lazy culture of non-scientists?, it is bit of stretch but it was better than saying it was due to a cult vampire culture, and hell we gotta do something".
A few other points.
(1) Blaming scientists will always get you more traction.
(2) Lazy does not sound as good as arrogant cowboy.
(3) Even if this was true what are you going to do? How do you punish lazy people. A stand down or stop work is just fine with them. Hell even firing them is not that big of deal since they will just have more free time. Increase the amount of work...that would lead to more accidents and incidents.
(4) How does one define lazy? I am just saying how does one say a culture is lazy, is there some metric for this?
(5) Well everyone is to some extent lazy, after all if you had a choice to work or not work and no money problems how many people would work? Also if you are so arrogant that you would come to work no matter since you think what you do matters or that you can make a real contribution than you are a cowboy.
(6) You start off with the problem of culture. A culture needs to be almost everyone not just a subset. LANL is a science lab so everyone at LANL must be a scientist or at least that is the common perception. Have you ever played the video game Half-Life? it is set in the secret Black Mesa Facility in New Mexico, and you will notice everyone in the game is a scientist or a monster created by scientists so the common perception is that everyone at LANL is a scientist. When you say a cowboy science culture that makes total sense and fits with common expectation of the lab. If you say a lazy culture of the non-science workforce it will just confuse the heck out of people.
In the final sum, saying there is a "lazy" whatever that means, culture in the non-science part of the labs is just just not going to fly with congress or anyone else for that manner so you are going to need someone else to blame.