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Friday, November 17, 2023
Randy Pico
Was “Native American” Randy Pico continually promoted under LLNS management under the protection of “identity politics”, despite alleged repeated workplace misconduct toward subordinate employees?
11/17/2023 7:06 PM
12 comments:
Anonymous
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It might be informative to ask Randy Picos FIRST wife for her take on the question tabled for her take on Randy’s LLNL recruiting trips to the southwest colleges.
He gets hired by LLNL without a technical degree as was required of his non-ex military new hire peers. Then, after being a LLNL tech manager for 20+ years, LLNL decides it worth spending $250,000 or more for his DeVry Fremont Tech School scholarship that included 2 years off with full pay and LLNL service credit while in school to boot. Unlike the traditional LLNL scholarship recipients that earned engineering degrees to benefit Lab programs, his $250,000 Lab paid for Tech Manager Degree brought no material institutional value added referenced to that colossal expense. “Identity politics” on steroids.
Correct, he didn’t create out of thin air his ethnicity, his step father was a California Native American, he just declared it, and went on an accountability free and promotion enhanced escalator ride that his degreed peers were not entitled to.
New Mexico’s finest???? The story he always told was that when he got the job at LLNL he hitchhiked to California. It takes a lot to leave poverty an do something better for yourself.
That being said the mess that he created in the engineering 300 500 & 900’s ranks in 2020 and 2021 kinda puts everything in a different perspective.
“The story he always told was that when he got the job at LLNL he hitchhiked to California.”
If he had decided to “hitchhike” to LANL in NM, they would have told him to complete a technical degree or acquire technical experience in the military, and then you can get in line for a possible employment opportunity. However at LLNL in CA, he was identified as “underutilized”, hired, and promoted independent of his qualifications, with an identity politics driven and irrevocable “ticket to the show”. No “term limits” at LLNL.
“What “mess” did he create with the 300, 500, and 900 ranks, and what should he have done or not done, in your opinion?”
Maybe the commenter raising the 300, 500, 900 criticism with no supporting detail, just does not like him, but can’t offer any meaningful reasons why. Not cool.
12 comments:
It might be informative to ask Randy Picos FIRST wife for her take on the question tabled for her take on Randy’s LLNL recruiting trips to the southwest colleges.
He’s no Elizabeth Warren.
He gets hired by LLNL without a technical degree as was required of his non-ex military new hire peers. Then, after being a LLNL tech manager for 20+ years, LLNL decides it worth spending $250,000 or more for his DeVry Fremont Tech School scholarship that included 2 years off with full pay and LLNL service credit while in school to boot. Unlike the traditional LLNL scholarship recipients that earned engineering degrees to benefit Lab programs, his $250,000 Lab paid for Tech Manager Degree brought no material institutional value added referenced to that colossal expense. “Identity politics” on steroids.
10:58 you Californians get what you pay for. Diversity indeed.
“He’s no Elizabeth Warren.”
Correct, he didn’t create out of thin air his ethnicity, his step father was a California Native American, he just declared it, and went on an accountability free and promotion enhanced escalator ride that his degreed peers were not entitled to.
" LLNL decides it worth spending $250,000 or more ..."
Public Relations and Diversity/Equity/Inclusion ain't cheap.
“Public Relations and Diversity/Equity/Inclusion ain't cheap.”
Neither are gag orders in a LLNL settlement agreement $$$, but they do protect the “entitled” from having their misconduct exposed or corrected.
11/19/23 2:38
New Mexico’s finest???? The story he always told was that when he got the job at LLNL he hitchhiked to California. It takes a lot to leave poverty an do something better for yourself.
That being said the mess that he created in the engineering 300 500 & 900’s ranks in 2020 and 2021 kinda puts everything in a different perspective.
“The story he always told was that when he got the job at LLNL he hitchhiked to California.”
If he had decided to “hitchhike” to LANL in NM, they would have told him to complete a technical degree or acquire technical experience in the military, and then you can get in line for a possible employment opportunity. However at LLNL in CA, he was identified as “underutilized”, hired, and promoted independent of his qualifications, with an identity politics driven and irrevocable “ticket to the show”. No “term limits” at LLNL.
What 2:38 said, literally single handedly ruined those ranks
“the mess that he created in the engineering 300 500 & 900’s ranks in 2020 and 2021 kinda puts everything in a different perspective”
What “mess” did he create with the 300, 500, and 900 ranks, and what should he have done or not done, in your opinion?
“What “mess” did he create with the 300, 500, and 900 ranks, and what should he have done or not done, in your opinion?”
Maybe the commenter raising the 300, 500, 900 criticism with no supporting detail, just does not like him, but can’t offer any meaningful reasons why. Not cool.
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