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 suspect that the person had a good deal at Apple but wanted to live in Livermore and commute for the money but they had to make a decision between the two after 6 months of this.
"A typical day would see Marie through three-plus hours of commuting to and from the office"
You mileage may very but I doubt you can read much into this story other than one persons personal experience.
Baby come back, any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Baby come back, yeah, you can blame it all on me
'Cause I was wrong, and I just can't live without you
The posts by 7:26 AM and 1:27 AM are rather cynical but probably have elements of truth. With that I have known people who have left the labs for Google, Microsoft, and Wallstreet jobs and so on have done very well and have not retuned. The truth though is that these people where were pretty good and generally did not fit in that well with the labs. The are results driven people and and one of the posters pointed out that labs are more existence driven at this point rather then results. It is also true that you can have a pretty good living the labs with a very laid back work ethic. This is not everyone of course but the "who you know" is much more relevant than "what you know" which is somewhat true everywhere is just way more prominent at the labs.
Unfortunately you are essentially correct. If your an OFCCP defined "underutilized" minority with LLNS, you are in the catbirds seat in terms of promotions and rehires independent of performance or conduct. If your not categorized as an "underutilized" minority (male, female, or ethnicity referenced to job title) with LLNS, you are not protected against discrimination when it occurs.
750k or more at Apple, 500k LLNL, upped to 600k to return.