tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post1289889295784641051..comments2023-08-27T06:53:36.768-06:00Comments on LANL: The Rest of the Story: Frank Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134775226991383924noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-30957852151748227602007-11-16T11:19:00.000-07:002007-11-16T11:19:00.000-07:00Inevitable only because downsizing is the Bechtel ...Inevitable only because downsizing is the Bechtel way to build profits... They pulled the same crap at LANL... Gross receipts tax? What's that?<BR/><BR/>11/14/07 4:36 PM<BR/><BR/>For anyone still interested, sales tax on a purchase is called gross receipts tax in New Mexico.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-79779656495441601222007-11-15T08:58:00.000-07:002007-11-15T08:58:00.000-07:00All this from the "best and brightest" management ...All this from the "best and brightest" management team on the race of the earth...no in the whole universe. Heck...not just our universe, but any parallel universes yet to be discovered. What a team!<BR/><BR/>--R Marquez, aka Richard of LANSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-79685130309737874102007-11-15T07:53:00.000-07:002007-11-15T07:53:00.000-07:0011:38You may be right about TCP1 and 2 funding. Al...11:38<BR/><BR/>You may be right about TCP1 and 2 funding. All I know is George Miller put up a view graph which showed anticipated costs and actual costs (to the lab) and TCP2 turned out to be 20 million more than expected. Why? You tell me...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-4385462407281381542007-11-15T04:04:00.000-07:002007-11-15T04:04:00.000-07:00Actually I'm not sure Mikey was lying when he said...Actually I'm not sure Mikey was lying when he said "no plans for a plan..." <BR/><BR/>LANS senior management has done nothing but REACT since June 1, 2006. They have no plans for a plan for anything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-1477367479387543842007-11-15T00:09:00.000-07:002007-11-15T00:09:00.000-07:00Poster 11:38 PM, your English is very poor and you...Poster 11:38 PM, your English is very poor and you have no idea what you are talking about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-21049312064865426792007-11-15T00:07:00.000-07:002007-11-15T00:07:00.000-07:00Someone over at the LLNL blog posted an interestin...Someone over at the LLNL blog posted an interesting news story. I'm not sure what newspaper it appeared in, but here is an excerpt:<BR/><BR/>www.blogger.com/<BR/>comment.g?blogID=<BR/>7664769810739843802&postID=6<BR/>874141371033068054<BR/><BR/>---------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Observing that the high cost of doing business has put the Lab at a “major tipping point,” Director George Miller outlined a number of steps the Lab must undertake, including workforce reductions, in order to reduce the “challenges” it faces in fiscal year 2008 and beyond.<BR/><BR/>In an all-hands talk Monday to address the future of the Laboratory, Miller announced the Lab will reduce its supplemental and flexible term workforce by as many as 500 people in January 2008.<BR/><BR/><BR/>...Despite these costs savings, the Lab still cannot make up the $300 million shortfall without workforce reductions. “The Lab has a weak spot we cost too much,” Miller stated. “This problem has been evolving for more than 15 years. If we were bidding on our own work, we would not accept it.”<BR/><BR/>Therefore, Miller said, the Lab has a duty to become “more capable, more cost effective and more competitive” in order to execute its missions and grow new missions for the future.<BR/><BR/>---------------------------------<BR/><BR/>Can anyone imagine the fuzzy Ewok ever making a statement like this? I can't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-82052909109364306552007-11-14T23:38:00.000-07:002007-11-14T23:38:00.000-07:00tcp1 or tcp2 niether on comes out of the operating...tcp1 or tcp2 niether on comes out of the operating buget doe funds the retirement budget for both. doe did petition congress to stop funding tcp 1 for 08 budget but congress told them no!! check out the congressional buget for 08. the reason lans and llns wanted employees to go tcp1 was so that doe would reap the benfits of the pension fund when the employee died or when the last payment is made out to last employee anything left over goes back to doe. you should have read the final rfp white papers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-74325075781335324182007-11-14T22:31:00.000-07:002007-11-14T22:31:00.000-07:00One thing that LLNS couldn't plan for when project...One thing that LLNS couldn't plan for when projecting their budget was the number of people who would take TCP2 (and thus immediately hit the operating budget). They probably assumed that the breakdown between TCP1 and TCP2 would be similar to what happened at LANL. <BR/><BR/>Bad assumption! Over half of the LLNL staff decided to go with TCP2 and that is part of the reason their operating budget is now in such dismal shape.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-59753618631119696812007-11-14T20:44:00.000-07:002007-11-14T20:44:00.000-07:00Yes so far the corporatization of the labs has bee...Yes so far the corporatization of the labs has been a huge success... other than Bechtel, who has gained anything? Is ONE thing better at LANL? Safer? Securer? NOPE. Not a gaddamned thing. And to think the management fee is only TEN times what it was for UC. Another jewel in the fool's crown of the Bush administration, which also has not had ONE success.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-29929259940534374622007-11-14T19:11:00.000-07:002007-11-14T19:11:00.000-07:00"...leaves us wondering how the facility's new lea..."...leaves us wondering how the facility's new leaders so badly miscalculated the effects of the transition..."<BR/><BR/>They obviously knew what the extra cost were going to be based on watching Los Alamos. Cashing large checks can lead to "miscalculations" it appears.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-58890299016914239422007-11-14T16:56:00.000-07:002007-11-14T16:56:00.000-07:00Anastasio even said "we have no PLANS to plan for ...Anastasio even said "we have no PLANS to plan for a RIF."<BR/><BR/>total bullshitAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28220200.post-2754509348889600042007-11-14T16:36:00.000-07:002007-11-14T16:36:00.000-07:00"Much of this was foreseeable. The cuts have come ..."Much of this was foreseeable. The cuts have come so quickly that we wonder whether the new management team knew all along that they were inevitable......"<BR/><BR/>Inevitable only because downsizing is the Bechtel way to build profits... They pulled the same crap at LANL... Gross receipts tax? What's that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com