In 2012, did LLNS management present an "intent to dismiss" letter to a young NIF employee just days before he committed suicide? Perhaps an impartial investigation is overdue.
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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That the LLNS Management knew that the employee was emotionally at risk and that by providing a letter they knew they were driving the employee to suicide?
Was the letter a severe warning that unless the employee changed his/her performance they would be terminated? Was the letter giving the heads up to the employee that funding had or was going to dry up and find another job or you're out the door?
When LLNS was doing the layoffs after the contract was it an obligation for someone with a psychologist degree to review the medical information of each person affected and to give input on the possibility of suicide for each of them?
I am not trying to defend NIF. That was an organization that ate up people, chewed them until there was no flavor left and then spit them out.
Some more details are needed as opposed to something bad happened, we need congress to jump in and slap some folks around.
Or if you are someone who just likes to toss out random speculation, you have succeeded. Congrats, I’ll match your intellectual rigor: Was it Col. Mustard in the library with a candlestick?
"Look at the kind of management we have to get an answer as to why morale is so low. I had a coworker commit suicide and the division leader would do nothing for his family or even acknowledge what had happened. When the group leader of the employee who had died asked the the division leader why they were doing nothing for the family his response was "Let HR take care of that". These people have absolutely no empathy. They despise the workers and only listen to fellow managers or the so called distinguished members."
"It's worse than lack of empathy. They somehow contributed to the conditions leading up to the suicide, and they are worried that doing ANYTHING will be a partial admission of liability. These lab managers are much worse than just lacking empathy."
Who was this Division Leader?