Friday, November 24, 2017
Harmless on his own
Ok they are going to announce the interim director soon now that Charlie is has been given his walking papers. One odd thing is that publicly people say that Charlie is leaving on his own but privately every single one of them said he was fired. So all the fingers point to Leasure. No one seems to like the guy and say he has absolutely no ability lead and no clue about the programs, his job over the years has been to be a yes man and gofer for higher ups. Many people say he is sort of harmless on his own
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The staff on the top two floors of the NSSB say that it will be Terry Wallace. Nobody seems very happy about it either. It is possible that they floated the name to get a sense of the Lab reaction. Oh well, LANL has survived worse and for longer.
Leasure is not bad. Just wait till you meet your new management with zero LANL or NNSA experience.
Ask those Sandia people how they find Girrens and Seestrom.
Wallace is a second-rate geologist and a horrible manager. He is always missing in action. He is a complete mismatch to everything a Director needs to be.
This simply CANNOT be for real.
Girrens is so inexperienced on the nuclear weapon program is that Younger asked Dr. Gary Sanders (former Chief engineer) to mentor him. Girrens was so arrogant that he refused Sanders help. Let's just hope that Girrens first major mistake does not effect the safety, security, or reliability of our weapon systems. Frankly, this guy is scary in his position and power, truly a loose cannon.
Wallace or Leasure, either, a lose-lose situation for LANL.
Sanders is an excellent interim choice. Understudied both Teng and Barrish in vastly different Nobel winning efforts. Smart. Savvy. Experienced. Internationally respected. Politically astute. Fine project manager. Works very well with engineers from concept thru operations. WEll respected OUtside the lab, including in Lehman Review process. In the same vein as Mara and Kuckuck, a people oriented caretaker.
McMillan will go down as the worst Director in history, even worse than Nanos. About the only good thing that can be said about him is that he was a better choice than Wallace. Leave it to the out of touch UCOP to pick Wallace just to make McMillan look better in retrospect.
It's Terry Wallace. Announcement will be on Tuesday.
Well Wallace would be better than Leasure. Sure he has had some ah "issues" in the past but no big. Besides this is only a short term position from what I can tell until Webster takes over.
Webster? Bob Webster?
Looks like Terry is permanent. No "interim" in the news release verbiage. Interesting.
Wallace ignores regulation in his contract. Finds it optional. That is all you need to know.
Webster would have been 10x better than Wallace but I bet he doesn't want it.
Webster would have been better than Wallace, but if Webster is on a bidding team, then best he sit on the sidelines until the baton is handed to him at contract change.
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