Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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I seem to me missing some context here. What was the horrible transgression? Did the person say all lives matter, or did they do something real like say, " I will never promote so and so because they are ..." You know there is a difference one is a real problem and one is not. That is the problem with PC culture, it actually dismisses real issues.
I think the cough medicine for everyone reference simply means that many forms of lab misconduct go unaddressed. In part this occurs because some first hand observers of misconduct keep their objections to such behavior in their pocket. Since the contractor will refuse to take ownership of any manager going rogue, employees get the cough medicine, and non-transparency permits this to occur. Outside of the Lab, the "everybody gets the cough medicine" response to individual misconduct is problematic, because of those pesty body cams, the abundance of pedestrian videos, and open meetings.
I see your point but I think you are talking about a different issues that what is occurring.
Since you brought up body cams lets go with it. By the way body cams on the whole prove cops are innocence like 99.9 % of the time. Because of the 0.01 percent we need to defund the police which will result in more crime. Just so you know there are 15k murders in the US every year of which 8k are black of which that is 93% is black on black. The number of blacks killed by police every year on average like 250. I assume that that some of you can do math and see the point. If you think black lives matter you might want to focus at black and black crime before you force CRT on the labs or any other place. The number lives saved by forcing CRT on the labs is around zero. You would think that anyone who supports CRT might figure out that they could save many more lives by focusing their issues on black on black crime. Suppose they did that and it only...only saved 1% that would be 80 people which is about 10 times more than the 10 people killed unjustly by police every year. Think about it.
The commenter didn't mention BLM or CRT, and your 99.9% "Innocent" stat has no misconduct correlation in a closed culture Lab environment. Furthermore, misconduct is not limited to racial bias. Misconduct can include sexual harassment, conduct that results in an adverse employment decision, or promoting or defending a hostile work environment.
Some good old boys might be "encouraged" to retire. Other upper echelon good old boys, might be moved to another assignment and or promoted. It all depends on how politically connected one is at LLNL.
10/20/2020 9:55 PM
There you go, get rid of those bothersome random drug tests right away.