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 The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills.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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Of course, other pandemics as well, environmental crises (such as the dust bowl), and severe disasters such as the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, the Galveston hurricane. Also not new to have homeless people, of course. The history of blacks and Native Americans, of course, their contributions and discrimination against them, along with movements towards civil rights, is a big part of history. The current geopolitical issues of course, are not yet as serious as World War I and World War II, which was a nuclear war in fact.
And the economy (as well as crime I believe) was much, much worse as recently as the 1970's, which had the oil crisis following the 1973 Arab-Israel war, stagflation, Nixon's resignation, the loss in Vietnam, the Iranian hostage crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and Carter's energy programs which led to the imposition of a 55 speed limit on all roads, while the Three Mile Island events led to a backlash against nuclear power.
The things going on now, in the context of history, are not that unusual in some ways, it is a big error to think that because the United States is now so modern, that rather than comparing its actual conditions to how it was historically, we compare to a utopian ideal that was never actually present.
I am convinced that some kind ChatGPU or an AI has been posting on this blog. We are getting long but content free posts everyday now. The question is why would somebody or something being doing this?