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Thursday, August 24, 2017
LANS hires another DDIR
Gibbs makes a comeback from retirement to try to save the end of Charlie's term. We now have 3 DDIRS, 5 PADS, 5 or more DPADS, 15 or so ADS and 15 or more DADS. Just one more layer of upper level management to feed from the overhead trough, with no value added.
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Hiring Gibbs back is an absolute joke on many fronts! It appears we are going to see the "unbelievable" at LANS the next 9 months before the new contractor takes over.
I'll never forget when Gibbs was on vacation when it was announced that ES-division (~ 400 employees) was tossed out of ADE and moved into ADNHHO. Gibbs didn't even have the courtesy or respect to inform ES-division employees in any form, verbal or written. He had Wantuck do his dirty deed, be it, he didn't even know about it. Gibbs is a very poor communicator and manger. This is the type of "manger" that McMillan is hiring back!
I worked for Scott Gibbs as my Division Leader and as my AD. He was fair, open, knowledgeable, ans actually fun to work with. If he had a fault, it was his over politicalization of decisions he thought would be controversial. Too much consensus-seeking. He is a good man. He stepped onto the security mess with the ex-PA state police commandant who got hired in a horrible mistake, and the firing of Busboom and Tucker, and set things right, taking a demotion to do it. He maintained focus, commitment, and humor, all critically important.
Gibbs was personally responsible for 100's of engineers transferred across the Lab into ES-Division to cover a PBI (i.e. money) on Cognizant System Engineers (CSEs) as a result of doing a poor (lousy) job of hiring his own engineers to cover this. And then, he got rid of the problem (i.e. ES-Divison). This was debacle! He is lousy "manger" to the bone!
The forced transfer of engineers into ES Division to become CSE was a discrace. Engineers in W and AET were forced to go to ES. The AD's Gibbs and Knapp were behind the idea.
Gibbs was the driving force behind the CSE debacle. Nothing good ever comes from these quick win political ideas, and Gibbs was always working on some scheme. He came off as a friendly fellow, but was the driver of many poor decisions.
Why on earth would McMillan hire a retiree at $800,000 per year to manage risk and contract assurance is an absolute disgrace. Fact is, there is no risk and no contract left for LANS. It seems lame duck McMillan is settling favors and pardoning folks with 8 months (and counting) to go.
The forced transfer of engineers into ES Division to become CSE was a discrace. Engineers in W and AET were forced to go to ES. The AD's Gibbs and Knapp were behind the idea.
August 26, 2017 at 8:50 PM
Don't forget Paul Wantuck carried out Gibbs dirty deeds, who is recently promoted to the AD for Engineering. All the Senior Managers who were "good soldiers" are now getting their pockets lined with more money. Follow the money LANS!
13 comments:
Hiring Gibbs back is an absolute joke on many fronts! It appears we are going to see the "unbelievable" at LANS the next 9 months before the new contractor takes over.
I'll never forget when Gibbs was on vacation when it was announced that ES-division (~ 400 employees) was tossed out of ADE and moved into ADNHHO. Gibbs didn't even have the courtesy or respect to inform ES-division employees in any form, verbal or written. He had Wantuck do his dirty deed, be it, he didn't even know about it. Gibbs is a very poor communicator and manger. This is the type of "manger" that McMillan is hiring back!
The Tres Amigos were Tony Sanford, Rich Marquez and Scott Gibbs.
Shouldn't be long now until McMillan rehires the other two back from retirement.
I worked for Scott Gibbs as my Division Leader and as my AD. He was fair, open, knowledgeable, ans actually fun to work with. If he had a fault, it was his over politicalization of decisions he thought would be controversial. Too much consensus-seeking. He is a good man. He stepped onto the security mess with the ex-PA state police commandant who got hired in a horrible mistake, and the firing of Busboom and Tucker, and set things right, taking a demotion to do it. He maintained focus, commitment, and humor, all critically important.
Gibbs failed the IQ test by coming back. He is a pretty good manager. Nothing special.
The only thing I agree with is that you must have a sense of humor to work at LANL. Otherwise you will go crazy.
Gibbs was personally responsible for 100's of engineers transferred across the Lab into ES-Division to cover a PBI (i.e. money) on Cognizant System Engineers (CSEs) as a result of doing a poor (lousy) job of hiring his own engineers to cover this. And then, he got rid of the problem (i.e. ES-Divison). This was debacle! He is lousy "manger" to the bone!
Scott "plug up all the USB ports with JB Weld" Gibbs has a long trail of politically expedient, and otherwise very poor, decisions in his wake.
The forced transfer of engineers into ES Division to become CSE was a discrace. Engineers in W and AET were forced to go to ES. The AD's Gibbs and Knapp were behind the idea.
Gibbs was the driving force behind the CSE debacle. Nothing good ever comes from these quick win political ideas, and Gibbs was always working on some scheme. He came off as a friendly fellow, but was the driver of many poor decisions.
Why on earth would McMillan hire a retiree at $800,000 per year to manage risk and contract assurance is an absolute disgrace. Fact is, there is no risk and no contract left for LANS. It seems lame duck McMillan is settling favors and pardoning folks with 8 months (and counting) to go.
The forced transfer of engineers into ES Division to become CSE was a discrace. Engineers in W and AET were forced to go to ES. The AD's Gibbs and Knapp were behind the idea.
August 26, 2017 at 8:50 PM
Don't forget Paul Wantuck carried out Gibbs dirty deeds, who is recently promoted to the AD for Engineering. All the Senior Managers who were "good soldiers" are now getting their pockets lined with more money. Follow the money LANS!
As a DDIR, Gibbs will be unlikely to inflict damage. It could have been worse.
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