Ridiculous: Sandia employee left for Apple, couldn't handle it for 6 months and came back to Sandia
https://fairygodboss.com/articles/from-big-tech-to-national-security-work-a-boomerang-employee-story
Ridiculous: Sandia employee left for Apple, couldn't handle it for 6 months and came back to Sandia
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The burning question, did she get a discount on an I phone13 and a free subscription to Itunes?
There are lots of way to see this like Sandia people suck and cannot make it elsewhere. Apple sucks and no sane person wants to work there. This was just one persons experience at Apple and is just a singular personal story that depends on a specific set of conditions.
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.
Her gender undoubtedly plays a huge role in her experience. At Sandia she must merely exist in order to excel at her job whereas at Apple she must excel for her job to exist. She’ll probably run Sandia in a few years. “Fairy God Boss” indeed.
Seems like she had/has a pretty laid back job at Sandia. Regardless of type of work is all about who likes you to take you back. This happens quite often at LANL, employees leave for more "interesting"(money) opportunities just to find they really have to work for the money then come back crying and managers like to play that stupid game and take them back even when there are other employees who are probably better fitted for the position. It happens at all levels from students to managers. "is not what you know is who do you know".
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.
"Her gender undoubtedly plays a huge role in her experience. At Sandia she must merely exist in order to excel at her job whereas at Apple she must excel for her job to exist. She’ll probably run Sandia in a few years. “Fairy God Boss” indeed."
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.
Actually, the burning question is; how much higher was her salary when she was hired back in than when she left? A quick way to get that raise you deserve, but didn't get.
750k or more at Apple, 500k LLNL, upped to 600k to return.
The commute is now so much easier in that AMG S-class !
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