Saturday, March 16, 2024
Four-day workweek
The nation could follow LANLs lead and have a 4 day work week! At LANL we have the 9/80 but you work 9 hours a day and have every other Friday off. The issue is (1) Most Fridays the lab is only 25% full and no one works a 9 hour day. The lab fills up between 8-9, and people start to leave by 3pm. The parking lot are half empty by 5pm. I know some people come in at 7AM in certain groups but in my area if you come in 7AM it is utterly empty, with people getting in 8AM and latter. By 3pm you can get a parking lot pretty easily. (I know the manufacturing people have real schedules and put in the hours so I am not talking about you).
I understand if you can work from home but we get all these crazy things like, "turn in your time by 5pm on Wed, paper work must be turned for anything on Thur morning, in our area half the people are gone by 1pm every Thur and maybe 20% or less are there on a Friday so if you need anything done you better do it Wed, or Thur morning at the latest. This is every single week.
As near as I can the schedule is something like, every Friday off, every Thur afternoon off, every other Monday off. Heck even Thurs you are seeing drop. It is a weird place. I am not sure if this is a new thing since an old joke I heard was "How many people work at LANL? about half"
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I would bet that Bernie's staff puts in more than 40 hours but gets pain for just the 40 hours. If you want to work less for more pay, get elected to congress.
Things that aren’t worth doing, aren’t worth doing well. No work = no accidents = contractor gets maximum fee.
The problem is NNSA is getting upset that LANL and even Sandia are falling behind in delivering what they promise. I think some of the blame is on NNSA who set this system up to fail.
4-10s was really designed for production operations with Fridays being used for facility maintenance.
3/16/2024 2:10 PM, you hit the nail on the head. Post Cold War, NNSA set up all of the incentives to reward safety and security. The #1 proven method to have zero security or safety incidents is to do no work. According to all of the traditional NNSA metrics over the past 32 years, the labs have been hitting it out of the park. Very little gets done, both in terms of work and incidents. No pits being produced? No Rocky Flats! It's pretty simple. In a perfect world, they would hire quality people who could do work safely and securely, but absent that, it's a lot cheaper to hire people who can do no work. They don't complain and they don't ask for a raise.
"4-10s was really designed for production operations with Fridays being used for facility maintenance.
3/18/2024 8:36 AM"
We have 10-4-4s. 10-4, four days a week.
Risk Averse creates Work Averse
but
It creates PROFIT$
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