Is there an effective way to put the kibosh on a Tech Associate promotional review on a 500 series tech?
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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It wouldn't be the first time that a non-qualified individual has been promoted, be it the lab or anywhere else for that matter.
A promotion from a 500 series Technician to a 300 series Supervisor is materially different than those being reviewed for a 300 series Tech Associate promotion. While a 500 series Technician to a 300 series Tech Associate promotion usually requires a body of work that merits the promotion, a 500 series Tech need only be selected for the assignment by the Superintendent and or Group Leader. When a 500 series Tech is selected for a 300 series Supervisor assignment, there is no 300 series criteria or body of work prerequisite like those 500 series Techs being considered for a 300 series Tech Associate promotion. Essentially, the 500 series Tech is identified as the selected 300 series Supervisor contingent upon of course, passing a subsequent 300 series "ERB review". A rubber stamp and wink wink event.