Does LLNS have a structured suicide prevention program that strives to reach out and help lab employees with suicidal thoughts, and if warranted, the authority to investigate employee and management conduct leading up to a suicide event without employer bias?
In some cases, the California Courts may consider "severe emotional stress" caused by "cyber bullying" and "hateful messages" leading to a suicide as a "wrongful death", making it possible for the family members of the deceased to hold the offending party liable in Court.
https://www.jmllaw.com/blog/wrongful-death-and-cyberbullying-how-social-media-trolls-and-bullies-can-be-held-liable-for-suicide.shtml
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Have heard stories at NIF about unethical managers stealing information from where they came from overseas, affairs, making up stuff against employees. Same in WCI, mentors pushing up staff into leadership positions who are technically incompetent and even WORSE as managers, displaying never ending unhinged behavior. As the previous person said, small amounts can have big impacts. MANY people are bailing because of a few terrible managers/leads.
Kim needs to realize her good ideas are not really flowing down and being implemented. Bad managers take the guidance and just reformulate to maintain the status quo. The only way is to be strong and remove these people.
Your attempt at sarcasm related to a suicide prevention topic is repulsive. One need not have a medical license and education to clearly observe managers that are open loop uncaring jerks to employees.
Unlike the Ford Motor Company, that must compete in the free market in real time with Toyota, GM, etc. for a customer base, LLNS has no such worries requiring a change in "Lab Cuture".
"Written by Andrew Frick, Ford vice president of U.S. and Canada sales, the letter began: "It has come to our attention that a limited number of dealerships are interacting with customers in a manner that is negatively impacting customer satisfaction and damaging to the Ford Motor Company brand and Dealer Body reputation.""
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2022/01/07/ford-f-150-lightning-dealerships-sales/9129717002/
Similar rationalizations:
I don’t know if that person is really being beaten up, after all, I’m not a police officer.
I don’t know if that person is being sexually assaulted, I’m not a suburban sociologist.
I don’t know if that lab employee is being harassed and abused after all, I don’t have a medical education, therefore I won’t speak up and my conscious is clear.
10/10/2022 5:11 PM
That's not "a statement of fact." It's your opinion. If you claim it is a fact, the burden is on you to prove it.
10/21/2022 5:18 PM
That is not how it works, the burden is for you prove it is not true.
10/21/2022 6:23 PM
In grade school I learned "you cannot prove a negative." Did you sleep through that lesson? No one in a US court has ever been required to prove something is not true. Prosecutors make charges and are required to prove them. Defendants are not guilty if the prosecutors fail.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy," Martin Luther King, Jr.
So, either you care, don't care, or are afraid (with good reason) to speak up.
In direct response to this loss of life in an INL employee address, INL Director Grossenbacher suggested they should "take effective steps as individuals, leaders, and managers to acknowledge and manage stress in the workplace". It appears INL Director Grossenbacher believed neither he or INL employees should "stay in your own lane", nor did the Director indicate "it's not your problem" on a matter of such magnitude. I would certainly like to hear LLNL Director Kimberly Budil's view on this topic.
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