LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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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.