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Dear blog visitor,

Please keep your comments on topic. Make them informative and interesting and not a way to win an argument. You will never win an argument in an anonymous fashion.
Together,  let us improve our blog and make it a friendly place where educated people come to inform and debate, instead of regurgitate and denigrate.
I feel obligated and committed to  filter out any useless, bitter attacks.

Cordially,
Scooby, Doobydew, Julian

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Anonymous said…
While I totally agree, most of the topics now are just back and forth trolling. The blog may have run its course.
1/11/2020 12:59 PM
Anonymous said…
"While I totally agree, most of the topics now are just back and forth trolling. The blog may have run its course."

LLNS management has the Newsline and other forms of communicating their opinions and positions on matters that impact current and former employees. Employees and former employees have this blog. This blog may go away at some point, and Scooby has no obligation to keep it going. We should of course accept and respect Scooby's blog rules for comments. The erosion of our workplace benefits under LLNS didn't all happen in one day, one month, or one year. Like LANS management liked to say, "it's a continuum". Has the blog run its course? I say no.
1/11/2020 6:38 PM
GreggS said…
There is still life left, all it takes is less biting and more barking.
1/12/2020 5:23 AM
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