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Hiring freeze

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By scooby

 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/ensuring-continued-accountability-in-federal-hiring/


 Trump on late Wednesday signed a new executive order that told agencies to restrict hiring throughout the federal government, providing some exceptions related to immigration enforcement, national and public security, and political appointees.

Does this affect the labs, NNSA, DOE? 

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Anonymous said…
Labs are private, for-profit contractors. This does not directly impact the labs.
10/16/2025 4:52 PM
Anonymous said…
Sandia has had essentially a hiring freeze for months, LLNL has been slowing back on hiring the past few months as well, not as bad as Sandia. LANL pedal to the metal apparently.
10/16/2025 5:17 PM
Anonymous said…
In 2013, LLNL Director George Miller came up with clever ways to soften the blow. He was an excellent leader who cared about the mission and the people. Unlike subsequent and current directors.
10/17/2025 6:18 PM
Anonymous said…
10/17 6:18 um you mean Parney Albright, he move a few of the holidays forward in the year.. and three months later he was out of a job.
10/17/2025 7:55 PM
Anonymous said…
George Miller was LLNL Director from 2007 until 2011.
10/17/2025 8:15 PM
Anonymous said…
It's not that our current directors are horrible people, but they are all clearly weak-willed politicians who's chief skill is shifting with every change of the breeze. They don't have any principles or ideas of their own and they always lead from behind. That's the path to success in modern NNSA organizations.
10/18/2025 7:18 AM
Anonymous said…
Yes. You are right. My memory has been volatile lately.
10/18/2025 7:01 PM
Anonymous said…
Thank you. You are right
10/18/2025 7:02 PM
Anonymous said…
George Miller "It is what it is" with tears.
10/19/2025 2:40 PM
Anonymous said…
“George Miller "It is what it is" with tears.”

What is your interpretation of this? Please explain.
10/19/2025 8:18 PM
Anonymous said…
During the contract change George would have all-hands meetings in the B123 auditorium and explain that the changes coming down the pipe were beyond his or anyone else's control with the phrase "It is what it is." Often this was accompanied with a near tearful expression, which I could not tell if it was genuine or not. I couldn't blame the fellow, he was handed cards that were stacked against him, but as president of LLNS, his financial future was in better shape than the rest of us. I could have done without the tears.
10/19/2025 9:57 PM
Anonymous said…
If we only had the corporate translator cat in our George Miller All Hands meeting https://m.youtube.com/shorts/LqBbh1Jl9D8

The corporate translation would be: while I am going to keep my UC pension, you will be soon paying 7% after tax… don’t think of it as a 7% pay cut but it will be. You will have the same health insurance choices… it’s just going to cost you dramatically more. Oh and if you make it through the coming layoff’s just wait until 2020 to see the prize we have for you MinSafe workers stuck working onsite.
10/21/2025 8:42 PM
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