More facts

There may be more facts than I knew a week ago.

There seem to be Federal laws relevant to TCP1 and TCP2.

I have been told that the proposed and implemented plans may violate these laws.

I am not a lawyer so I do not know whether these claims have a basis.

Just the facts

There are many facts that would help employees at LLNL or LANL.

The hard part is getting the employees to ask for the facts while there is time for the facts to do some good.

We will see what happens.

Lack of trust

Finally, I seem to understand at a deep level, where the lack of trust comes from in most of us who have worked or who are working at LANL or LLNL.

This insight should make me more effective in transmitting information about TCP1 or TCP2.

Later,

Eric

current information

I still have lots of useful information about TCP1 and TCP2.

It seems that most LLNL folks are opting for "roll your own."

So I am focusing on non National Lab projects and, a bit, on the Working at LANL blog.

The student's nightmare

The decisions about TCP1 and TCP 2 remind me of the college student's standard nightmare.

You have a final exam in a few minutes for a course you never signed up for. In this case, the course is advanced financial management for weapons scientists.

You have no acquaintances who have ever taken this course. The finance majors took average financial management for normal people but did not take this graduate level course that was never offered.

You however have to take the final in a few minutes. If you fail it, your future is ruined.

The test is scheduled for three hours.

If you had ever heard of this course, you would know that the test cannot be completed in less than six hours and that it is in German.

Welcome to TCP1 versus TCP2.

Do you want fries with that?

A matter of faith 2

On LLNL:The Corporate Story, I have read commenters saying that financial advise comes free at my bank.

If you have $100,000 in the bank and the expected rate of return is 8% but the bank gives you only 2% interest, where does the missing $6,000 go?

And you wondered how the bank could afford such a nice building and how your adviser could buy such a nice car.

Where I grew up, paying someone $6,000 a year to hold my own money was not considered free.

Actually, where I grew up Joey the Knife and Jimmy the Fish were more than happy to hold your money while you paid them to do it.

Just a thought.

A matter of faith

Many people at LANL and now at LLNL have the same belief.

They believe, in spite of the evidence, that the 'government will protect me and my pension.'

Do you believe this?