Any regular readers in HR or management got a timeline on coming layoffs?
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...
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148 open positions at LLNL
129 open positions at Sandia
I hear there is a hiring freeze in Sandia. They can still hire someone but you have to have an urgent need LANL will have short fall next year of 100 million. Not a big deal in terms of budget scale but the LANL hired tons of people and pit production is now the priority. There are rumblings that we still need to ramp off hires for pits which implies a hiring freeze for the rest of lab. I am not sure about layoffs. There are rumors that NNSA is simply not very happy with LANL and even Sandia at this point. I heard nothing about LLNL but was they say when LANL sneezes gets a cold
“Changed drastically”? How so? Better or worse? Your current thoughts on the matter will be appreciated.