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Mason's numbers just do not add up

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By scooby
Mason's numbers just do not add up

Mason claimed that Triad had sent out 10,200 offer letters to LANS employees, yet LANS only has about 8,200 employees of record. Even if you throw in the postdocs you still get only about 400 more. The students are mostly only summer, and gone by now, but even if you throw them in as well that's only 1,100 more. 

Even if Mason was confused and mistakenly counted students and postdocs in his math, it still doesn't add up. There are unionized crafts and guards that are not LANS employees, but are employees of the specific subcontractor, and there are COMPA and other contractors on-site as well that are not LANS employees. All in that is just under 12,000 and still doesn't explain Mason's flaky math.

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Anonymous said…
8,200 FTE's is not the same as 8,200 employees.

You'd understand that if you ever brought in money to support yourself and your team, and had to develop a budget and work scope for a sponsor.
10/02/2018 3:38 PM
Anonymous said…
Mason's comments had nothing to do with FTE?

This may partly be an adjustment to the new culture for Mason. At ORNL there may not have been that many staff that carefully listened to management words and placed value on the facts behind the words. LANL employees have a history of questioning almost every word from management and digging for the underlying facts. In time, either Mason will adapt to the new culture, or change it.
10/04/2018 11:34 AM
Anonymous said…
"At ORNL there may not have been that many staff that carefully listened to management words and placed value on the facts behind the words. LANL employees have a history of questioning almost every word from management and digging for the underlying facts. In time, either Mason will adapt to the new culture, or change it."

That is a very interesting possibility. Another way to interpret this is that ORNL there is trust between the management and the workforce, so the exact wording is not relevant. At LANL there is no trust between management and the workforce so the workers must question everything in order to figure out that is really going.
10/05/2018 6:42 AM
Anonymous said…
October 4, 2018 at 11:34 AM, no that is not the issue. The OP was questioning the number of offer letters that Mason spoke of. You don't send offer letters to FTEs, you send them to real people. 4 people working 25% time equals one FTE but 4 offers would have to be made. Retirees who work a little still, job shares, transients like student employees, part-timers all have to be rolled into Triad. There are almost ALWAYS more employees than FTE's in any organization.
10/05/2018 8:42 AM
Anonymous said…
October 5, 2018 at 8:42 AM

True, but don't bother trying. The Anti-LANL Guy will not listen or understand.
10/07/2018 5:46 PM
Anonymous said…
Craft are LANL employees by the way. We arent second class employees.
11/01/2018 7:31 PM
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