Four-day workweek

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/bernie-sanders-pushes-bill-establish-four-day-workweek-rcna143354

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"

Plutonium Shots on NIF.

Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...

Trump is to gut the labs.

The budget has a 20% decrease to DOE office of science, 20% cut to NIH. NASA also gets a cut. This will have a huge negative effect on the lab. Crazy, juts crazy. He also wants to cut NEA and PBS, this may not seem like a big deal but they get very little money and do great things.

LLNL un-diversity

Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!

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