Carolyn Zerkle stories and fan club. Interested in hearing about the vindictive, 4 year old ADHD mgt style of this ineffective but often promoted extremely over paid lab employee.
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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These stories have been posted on this blog endless times. Just search, find them and repost them.
If you do not have any thing good to say than say nothing.
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A lab manager would never ever slander an employee anonymously meaning:
-All lab manager communications have a traceable paper trail
-Lab managers would never use closed ranking sessions for slanderous purposes
-Lab managers would never use manager to manager phone calls for slanderous
purposes
-Lab managers would never use face to face manager communications for
slanderous purposes
Why? Because lab managers want to ensure said employee has full knowledge of such slanderous allegations so the employee may defend themselves against such allegations. It's called "working in good faith". Yah right.
Oh, look, Mr. "Yah" is back. Hey, I never said accusation weren't true, I indicated those without proof, or at least evidence, are slander.
12/01/2021 5:15 PM
It is ya not yah, please get your random accusations right.
According to you the blog consist only of the following personalities.
"Mr prove it"
"Mr provide evidence"
"LANL hater"
"NIF hater"
"Science hater"
"Crazy person"
"Then than guy"
"3rd grade writer"
"Trump is to blame for everything"
"Covid will kill us all"
"I hate the UC system"
"I am not bitter"
"China is good"
To test the correctness of this assertion, one must file a suit. Go for it. Zerkle has plenty of enemies who would enjoy feasting on that corpse. Also, learn the difference between slander and libel.
Pretty lame, assuming all the posters you don't like are the same person. And12/01/2021 8:51 AM said "Yah" not "Ya."
With respect, rather than a focus on accusations of an individual person true or not, what is driving this pattern of managerial growth at LLNL and at LANL?
Is the move from a for-profit contractor like LANS to a non-profit contractor like Triad, an outlier DOE/NNSA decision, or a predictor of future DOE/NNSA contractor selections in order to address concerns like yours and related mission objective concerns?
12/03/2021 9:53 PM
Things are better in that they got rid of the Bechtel managers at LANL. Also a good number of the non-Bechtel managers also left, I guess they where on the wrong team. In general the new people that have been brought in since Triad has come in are better than what we have had but I have to admit that I am disappointed that many former LANS mangers that stayed on or even moved up. Almost all the "problem" managers are former LANS people. As I said the new people brought in seem to be a step up, not perfect but a step up. The other problem is that many of these former LANS people are not going anywhere and may be even moving up so we will start seeing a more LANS approach again. They will also start hiring more LANS like people. I expect that in a few years or least after Mason is gone that the managers will push for for some kind of bonus system again.
DOE/NNSA don't usually involve themselves with lab hires and fires unless they think they were directly bamboozled for all to see. For example, I don't think Principal Associate Director for the National Ignition Facility & Photon Science Directorate Ed Moses left LLNS employment by choice.
12/06/2021 8:55 PM
So that's been the case since just after WWII?
12/07/2021 5:13 PM
Pretty much. It used to be just the ops side. Now science suffers too.....
As long as UC is running the place, good ol boys/girls and half wits will continue to dominate.
12/06/2021 8:55 PM
Must always wonder how UC socked it to the haters, and also why they just don't leave. Maybe feeding at the trough is hard to beat.
They font “sock it” to anyone. More like a malaise of management letting sexist northern new mexicans run wild.