Friday, February 09, 2007

 

God I miss Sig...

Comment from an earlier post:

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Re: Workforce Mobility...

I was informed this week that I was no longer 'covered'. They appreciate my almost 30 years of service, but they just don't have enough funding. They did some checking and found another Division that I might fit into and they set up a meeting for me next week. If I don't take this position, they will be forced to place me on workforce mobility (in MY mind, they already HAVE!)

Check out the Lab homepage re: workforce mobility and you'll see that once you're on it the 'receiving organization' can reduce your salary. Those of you thinking that your HAPC will continue to rise, albeit slightly, need to realize that your current HAPC is what your retirement will be based on. If you're lucky enough to not have your salary reduced, future raises will likely be in the form of bonuses (thus not an increase in your base salary.)

LANS will continue to make it harder and harder to work here. Their goal of course is to get rid of the employees 'close' to retirement--those with the highest salaries and in the steepest part of the 'retirement factor' curve. This will not only result in immediate savings (younger people are cheaper than older ones) but will also save them money down the road since people will likely retire earlier than they originally planned.

As we circle the bowl for the final few times, it's becoming painfully obvious: LANL will NEVER recover now...

Bumper sticker seen between the Hill and Pojoaque: "God I miss Sig...Hell, I even miss PETE!"

Comments:
Just a few months ago, Mikey told the congregation: "Don't look back; things will never be what they were at LANL in the old days."
 
Are we forgetting something here? The Managers salaries are the ones sky rocketing! The employees (Double Dippers)that retired and came back on TCP2 are the ones that are milking this place. The extreme high salaries are from the AD Level to Deputy Group Leader. The average employee is getting screwed! Self-Preservation...
 
This is close to the LLNL model. When your funding runs out at LLNL, you get similar treatment. However, they do not cut your salary, but do not expect a raise.

The fact is that every employee (expect those in overhead and support organizations) is an individual profit center. Your GL and DD have absolutely no responsibility to keep you funded. And, their raises are in no way dependent upon their result with regard to funding subordinates.

Note the inherenet opportunities for favoritism and retaliation in this arrangement!
 
"Are we forgetting something here? The Managers salaries are the ones sky rocketing!" - 2/09/2007 3:49 PM

Not only the salaries but the number of managers and influx of people at other levels, too. As long as they are associated with the new contractors.

With other bloated organizations that remain regardless of any reorganization it's no wonder that there are massive budget problems and barely any work getting done. CFO never seems to be hard-hit with reductions since they are the 'bottom line' folks and seem to drive the reductions, for example.

The surprising thing about all of this is that Bodman thinks it's the scientists that are arrogant and to blame for the overall performance of the Lab. Bwaah ha ha ha ha... sober up, Sam.

Even more surprising is that Congress can't see through the complete smoke screen by people who obviously are saying whatever they feel they must say to preserve their own ass. Well, except that they do recognize the method and can appreciate a good bs-er.

The good thing is that there are some smart people, locals included, in the trenches and once LANL is irrevocably damaged by those people who are dabbling with what they thought would bring them either wealth or notoriety by association, these good people will move on and find that there's a big world out there where they can earn a living without the nonsense they've been subjected to in recent years. (The parasites will also move on to a new host as well, I suspect.)

For those close to retirement who have been in the trenches for so long, they have been shafted and workforce mobility is just the latest vehicle of management to 'implement change' as a barely-disguised effort to perpetrate injustice.
 
To 3:49 pm - employees that took UC retirement and accepted their current positions with LANS are not "milking this place." Their salaries are the same LANS would have paid anyhow. The UC pension payments don't come from LANS. In addition, they, being in TCP2, will never earn a LANS pension. So, the cost to the institution is identical regardless of their retirement from UC. Get over your jealousy of their earned result from years of UC service.
 
Again, here people bitch but will anyone have the balls to ask Mike WTF with all this? I doubt it. People are not going to put Mike on the spot about Mitchell, this, or anything. Dead silence, except for the predictable question about day care. However, maybe this time someone might ask about snow delays and the like.
 
hey 3:49 Double dippers aren't the problem. We are retired out of UC not LANS. No different than being retired miltary and working here. We elected to take our UC retirement when we could and it was at a reduced rate than if all this wouldn't have happened.

600 people took TCP2 and 7500 took TCP1. The 600 include not only the "double dippers" as you call them but a shitload of nonvested (less than 5 year) people.

It's the new Bechtel/BWXT/WGI folks who are making the bucks and milking this place. But it's not going to go away. Get over it.

There are 3 things you can do. Piss and moan and be miserable and you'll be out of here shortly through poor performer. Leave and go somewhere else. Or suck it up and get with the program.
 
Don't you just love how when the chips are down the LANL folks start turning on each other and insulting each other? The upper management is the problem - if anything, those unqualified people who were promoted to the upper positions (Terry, Alan, Susan, Mary, Scott, etc.) have turned on us. Those are the people you should be blaming for taking in the large bucks and giving nothing back to the institution. They do not support anyone beneath them and just to keep their bonuses and salaries. Whether or not someone retired from UC and stayed on at LANL is not something you should be focusing your ire at.
 
I want to know more about this ....Facts only..

Workforce Mobility...

I was informed this week that I was no longer 'covered'. They appreciate my almost 30 years of service, but they just don't have enough funding. They did some checking and found another Division that I might fit into and they set up a meeting for me next week. If I don't take this position, they will be forced to place me on workforce mobility (in MY mind, they already HAVE!)

Check out the Lab homepage re: workforce mobility and you'll see that once you're on it the 'receiving organization' can reduce your salary. Those of you thinking that your HAPC will continue to rise, albeit slightly, need to realize that your current HAPC is what your retirement will be based on. If you're lucky enough to not have your salary reduced, future raises will likely be in the form of bonuses (thus not an increase in your base salary.)
 
7:07, the info on the HR webpage about workforce mobility says that if the hiring group cannot afford to pay for you at your current salary, they can offer you a job at a lower salary. You have the right to turn that job down (yeah, sure). As far as I can tell, this provision is directed at TSM's whose cost to the programs is directly determined by their salary.

There is a separate provision about taking a job at a lower level (e.g. going from a TEC 6 job down to a TEC 5 job) - in this situation the worker's salary is "red-circled" if it's above the maximum of the lower tier salary range. I believe this means no raise for you until your peer group catches up. (Fat chance).
 
Workforce mobility is another name for "doing your same job at a lower salary". It can't be applied to anyone who is excempt from salary rules, but can be applied to many of those over paid exempt tecs who can't make staff member and to staff members close to retirement.

Welcome to the world of privatization.
 
Under Sigs leadership this place became a mess, RIFs, turning scientists into mangers,cutbacks on support staff. History will show that the downfall of LANL began under Sigs watch!!!!!!
 
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