From the Huffington Post Why Workplace Jargon Is A Big Problem http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/work-words_n_5159868.html?utm_hp_ref=business&ir=Business When we replace a specific task with a vague expression, we grant the task more magnitude than it deserves. If we don't describe an activity plainly, it seems less like an easily achievable goal and more like a cloudy state of existence that fills unknowable amounts of time. A fog of fast and empty language has seeped into the workplace. I say it's time we air it out, making room for simple, concrete words, and, therefore, more deliberate actions. By striking the following 26 words from your speech, I think you'll find that you're not quite as overwhelmed as you thought you were. Count the number that LLNLs mangers use. touch base circle back bandwidth - impactful - utilize - table the discussion deep dive - engagement - viral value-add - one-sheet deliverable - work product - incentivise - take it to the ...
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So UC is really going for. By the way if one wants to know the real story, during the contract change Bechtel was given the impression that their role was to punish UC and LANL and that they would really be ones running to lab to bring in all these great business improvements and save tons of money. Of course not only did none of improvements happen but it only got worse. But make no mistake at the time Bechtel was given the nod they are in charge not UC and hence the disaster that have now. NNSA/DOE have long since realized their mistake and now want UC to be charge.
September 17, 2017 at 4:36 PM
You have no idea what you are talking about. I was there. UC did not fire Walp and Doran (not "Dorn," you putz). Busboom and Tucker, Walp's and Doran's immediate supervisors, fired them, and then UC fired Busboom and Tucker for firing Walp and Doran!!! How does that little inconvenient fact sit in your craw??
No choice, everyone else is unproven.
Nothing ever changes for the better in the NNSA complex. Isn't that perfectly clear by now?
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Ultimately, UC apologized publically for UC's wrongdoing.
Ultimately, UC apologized publically for UC's wrongdoing.
September 18, 2017 at 8:56 AM
What wrongdoing. UC did the right thing everyone agrees on this. Sure it cost a bit of money but in order to protect the nation it was the right thing to do and is why UC won the rebid and why
it may win again, because power in DOE and NNSA recognize a good deed when they see one.
September 18, 2017 at 8:56 AM
If you think that every firing of a Group Leader and his subordinate ASM was "reviewed by the UC Board," you know nothing about how LANL worked under UC.
Sooo, now what do we do to make the best of it? Find the best corporate person to run a lab. Any names?