--Doug
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Indefinite Career
Since you LANL folks have the day off (purportedly, according to one pissed off-sounding anonymous commenter because Mike Anastasio did not want to drive in the snow up from Santa Fe) I thought you might be amused to learn that somebody in the University Of California Office Of The President ended up on the blog here by searching for "indefinite career". It looks to me like UC wants to be in this for-profit NNSA lab business for the long haul. The host name "sor-fharms-1.ad.ucop.edu" should help identify who was looking into this lifetime career opportunity.
--Doug
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--Doug
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How come I don't get to read about any of this juicy stuff over at the LANS official blog?
ReplyDeleteCareer indefinite is a LLNL term. I believe it is comparable to LANL "regular" status.
ReplyDeleteWhere are those LASL Zia workers? I want my Los Alamos snow-packed driveway cleared of snow... right now!
ReplyDeleteOh, and tomorrow I think I'll go on down to CB Fox and use my lab badge to purchase a nice pair of snow shoes and gloves -- for work usage, of course.
(-Wake up-) Oh, excuse me, I'm just an old fart and must have been dreaming about the old days.
Sigh.
That's funny, 4:58. Your post triggered an old memory of the Zia Company coming by our house on 37th street to light the furnace pilot, late in the afternoon one mid-50's October.
ReplyDeleteIndefinite career?
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I would say just about any non-executive employee working under LANS could be categorized as having an "indefinite career". It can now be terminated at any moment for the most mundane of events. That "no at-will" promise is mostly null and void.
4:58, a true old-timer would have called it Clement & Benner's.
ReplyDeleteBusted!
Stand down TSA!!!!
ReplyDeleteABC news reports
Massive TSA Security Breach As Agency Gives Away Its Secrets
Online Posting Reveals a "How To" for Terrorists to Get Through Airport Security
In a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inadvertently posted online its airport screening procedures manual, including some of the most closely guarded secrets regarding special rules for diplomats and CIA and law enforcement officers.
Document mistakenly posted online reveals agency's top screening secrets.
The most sensitive parts of the 93-page Standard Operating Procedures manual were apparently redacted in a way that computer savvy individuals easily overcame.
The document shows sample CIA, Congressional and law enforcement credentials which experts say would make it easy for terrorists to duplicate.
The improperly redacted areas indicate that only 20 percent of checked bags are to be hand searched for explosives and reveal in detail the limitations of x-ray screening machines.
This is an appalling and astounding breach of security that terrorists could easily exploit," said Clark Kent Ervin, the former inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security. "The TSA should immediately convene an internal investigation and discipline those responsible."
This shocking breach undercuts the public's confidence in the security procedures at our airports," said Senator Susan Collins, R-Me., ranking Republican member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. "On the day before the Senate Homeland Security Committee's hearing on terrorist travel, it is alarming to learn that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inadvertently posted its own security manual on the Internet."
"This manual provides a road map to those who would do us harm," said Collins. "The detailed information could help terrorists evade airport security measures." Collins said she intended to ask the Department of Homeland Security how the breach happened, and "how it will remedy the damage that has already been done."
The TSA story is a non-starter, 7:01 AM, However, if you have a good story about another Los Alamos "atomic" breech, I'm sure that will sell! :
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Why the Big TSA Screw-Up Story Doesn't Matter (The Atlantic)
09 Dec 2009 07:05 am
The TSA inadvertently posted on the web some of its trade secrets, and a kerfluffle is ensuing, but it doesn't actually matter, because anyone with a brain (or half-a-brain) has already doped out some very easy ways to bypass TSA security procedures, which are in place mainly to make the public feel that the federal government is protecting them, when it is, in fact, not.
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4:58, a true old-timer would have called it Clement & Benner's.
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12/8/09 8:29 PM
Sorry, 8:29 PM, you are right. Must be my dementia kicking in. :-)
Doug/Frank - survey results were released this afternoon on the LANL homepage. Evidently the power that be decided NOT to wait the originally-stated 5 months roll out .... another fine example of "management by blog"
ReplyDeleteThanks, 6:28.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice to know you are being listened to, even while the the other party is pretending not to listen.
Now, if someone could please end us the survey results, we will help "roll them out".
ReplyDeleteThanks,
--Doug
Zero comments during seven hours???
ReplyDeleteReally???
Apparently, 7:28. Something seems to have stunned the collective consciousness.
ReplyDeleteGoddammit Doug, what's your email address?
ReplyDeleteAnybody recall the 'White's Auto" uptown? It was a great store. All American.
ReplyDeleteAnybody recall the 'White's Auto" uptown? It was a great store. All American.
ReplyDelete12/9/09 11:14 PM
Yep - bought a new Sony color TV there in 1981. Try doing that in Los Alamos today!
I bought a new Sony color TV in Los Alamos, and didn't even have to go downtown. Just sat on my couch and ordered it from Amazon. A week later UPS dropped it off on my doorstep. Now that's All- American ingenuity!
ReplyDeleteThank goodness for Amazon and UPS. Who needs retail in this town any longer? Other than groceries and large appliances, it's much cheaper and more convenient to simply order stuff on-line and have it dropped off at your front door. Even prescription eye-glasses can now be ordered off the web for prices that are far below what you'll find in any brick and mortar store.
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