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Former Sandía Lab in Livermore is suing

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By scooby

 9th Circuit panel considers if Sandia scientist’s retirement was voluntary


https://www.exchangemonitor.com/9th-circuit-panel-considers-if-sandia-scientists-retirement-was-voluntary/

January 2022 (background)

Former Sandia Lab Director Robert Hwang Files Suit For Racism

https://www.independentnews.com/news/livermore_news/former-sandia-lab-director-robert-hwang-files-suit-for-racism/article_93b308d4-7a05-11ec-8516-77578a6fb89e.html

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Anonymous said…
Management at all the Labs is an old boys (and girls) club that leads in arbitrary and capricious ways.
10/20/2023 6:12 AM
Anonymous said…
Sounds like a play right out of the Lawrence LLNS WCI management playbook during Covid. Budil approved games taken to the next level.
10/20/2023 12:13 PM
Anonymous said…
“Management at all the Labs is an old boys (and girls) club that leads in arbitrary and capricious ways.”

Too many (not all) lab managers are either part of said club (in on it), or elect to ignore club tactics instead of speaking up. Either way, you end up with a lab leadership deficit and poor employee morale as a result. The LLNS annual “report card”, ($$$) doesn’t include employee morale or employer satisfaction as a performance metric. Worker bees are commodities in LLNS world. Way overdue for a contractor change at LLNL.
10/21/2023 6:36 AM
Anonymous said…
10/21/2023 6:36 AM: Never have truer words been spoken. I even had a manager once tell me that, as far as he was concerned, the entire point of the lab was to enrich management at the expense of people doing the work.
10/22/2023 7:45 PM
Anonymous said…
What has to happen (or not happen) at the labs like LLNL, before the NNSA finally realizes, the needed scientific and engineering workforce (lab engine) have reached a tipping point, and are collectively voting with their feet to either get away from or not hire on with federal contractors like the for-profit LLNS? Hello NNSA, leading from behind isn’t working, and does not support national missions.
10/23/2023 7:23 PM
Anonymous said…
Honestly, it reached a tipping point a while ago. Its just that nobody notices because its been so long since the labs had real deadlines and competitive pressure. Try to get something done at the labs with even a moderate amount of technical difficulty. Its almost impossible now, and its not just second rate safety and facilities people that are the problem. With the US in decline and countries like Iran, China and Russia jockeying to replace our leadership, the problem may rear its ugly head soon.
10/25/2023 6:51 AM
Anonymous said…
LLNL mission focus reduction under LLNS yes. But, has there also sadly been an uptick in employee stress, heart attacks, and unfortunately, employee suicides, under LLNS management, while related LLNS upper management conduct, arguably related to said employee state of health, received disproportionate raises, bonuses, and or promotions? Seriously. Time for a change.
10/25/2023 6:55 PM
Anonymous said…
In LLNS management directive terms it is called, “toe the line”. Wow, not so good for LLNS employees or national missions.
10/30/2023 6:20 PM
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