Pinky and The Brain,
Haven't seen any discussion on this yet, thought I'd pass it along.
While reading the latest LANL newsbulletin, I saw the name "Jerry Pettis" in the 10 year anniversary column. This seems odd, as he only recently joined LANL. Sure enough, I checked the directory and saw he has a Z# well above 200,000.
Is it possible Bechtel folks are being allowed to transfer to LANS (as opposed to other outside hires)? I wonder if he got to choose between PP1 and PP2 ...
- Snowball
Oh yeah, your plan to take over the world by hypnotizing our most brilliant scientists with your blog is doomed to fail. I shall be ready to pick up the pieces, bwahhahahah!
Snowball doesn't realize that we have a new plan every night. Tonight, under hypnosis, he will write a letter to Senator Domenici explaining why LANL should administer the Government Cheese Stockpile Stewardship Program.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
12 comments:
I think all the "managers" hired were allowed to bring their service credit with them if they came from some "bechtel" shop.
Of course the long-serving contract employees under UC weren't given any service credit for their years working AT THE LAB.... Interesting little labor issue, huh?
Is there a lawyer in the house?
Here is how this is working.
Bechtel, BWXT, WGI brought their years service with them for vacation/sick purposes. However, their previous time didn't count towards our UC retirement credit. They had to go TCP2.
However, they continue to earn home organization retirement credit. So someone came here with 20 years at BWXT, they come in with 20 years so they get the full vacation/sick that LANL 20 year veterans get, but they had to sign up for TCP2 but they get the 20 year TCP2 matching numbers. And their BWXT time continues on from 20... And most of them got a pay raise to transfer over because LANS pay would be higher than they were making in BWXT or ???
Pretty sweet deal.
and contractors with years of experience at the lab got screwed out of any service credit.
I'm still waiting for the answer as to why EVERYONE got service credit going into LANS except contractors.
So what is Mary Neu's husband - Wolfgange Runde - excuse? He is not a manager. However, he gets to serve on the LDRD-DR committee and vote how his wife wants him to. Terry has placed him in "his" organization so that nobody will notice that he is still running his and Mary's research programs in C-Division. When will someone put a stop to this?
Just because your LDRD proposal did not make it does not necessarily mean that these people are out to get you. Maybe it just sucked.
A few years ago, a trustworthy staff member did a study that showed that there was a very strong correlation between the number of reviewers a division manages to place on a LDRD committee, and the number of LDRD proposals that the division gets accepted. You can draw your own conclusions...
If 10:27 is correct, it looks like C and T will be the big winners this year!
Hey 12:23, all the lawyers are living the high life over on Trinity.
Over the past several years, chemistry division has been nothing but trouble for this place, replete with bad managers, people who break the rules and/or hurt students and postdocs. Anastacio should just shut it down.
and that leach division IRM should be closed down also
OK, 9:12, if we shut down C (which, BTW, has a new DL after an EXHAUSTIVE national search), then we would have to shut down NMT& MST (those little punctures in Pu gloveboxes), DX/DE/HX (those problematic cranes), MST/MPA (where in the world is the Americium), NMT again (can you say electrical and PU inhalation?), etc. So it is probably not a good idea to single out any division when there is so much to share. Big LANL hug!
You may soon need to add the new topic "The Bechtel to LLNL Transition".
Post a Comment