Tuesday is the last day to sign up for VSSOP
Tuesday, Feb. 26, is the last day for employees who are eligible to take the Voluntary Self-Selection Option Program (VSSOP) to sign up.
The VSSOP is a self-select option — participation is entirely voluntary. It allows career indefinite employees to request consideration for separation with severance payment. Accepted employees will receive severance payment of one week’s pay for each year of continuous full-time equivalent service, up to a maximum of 26 weeks. VSSOP-eligible employees' applications will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis.
So how many people signed up.
14 comments:
I did - pressed that eject button last Tuesday, mere seconds past 8AM, with no regrets whatsoever. I was never tempted to rescind. Not even once.
It's been a nice ride for 23+ years. Thanks for the wonderful memories, LLNL, but it's time for me to move on. It's a couple years sooner than ideal, but life never quite turns out as ya planned, ya know?
I wish all of you good luck and fortune. I truly hope TCP2 stays afloat, that those who deserve a job can keep theirs during the upcoming turmoil, and that LLNL can once again hold her head high and perhaps regain some of her former glory.
So long, everyone.
I did too. After 26 years, 25 of which were great! the last few months have been hell. Lab management privatization is just wrong!
Adios!
Same here. I signed up during the first minute of signups and never thought about rescinding. I had 25 wonderful years at LLNL followed by two completely unfulfilling, contentious years. LLNS only made it worse.
I feel bad for the people who are too young or have too few years of service to retire. I feel even worse for those who may face layoffs if the VSSOP doesn’t have sufficient signups to correct the budget shortfall.
I would have signed up for the VSSOP because I am ready to leave the laboratory. However, I work in an VSSOP excluded area so I can not. I have asked for an exemption and was denied. They know I am leaving anyway so it is just a good chance for them to treat an employee unfairly and to save the VSSOP money. LLNS only cares about the money. The people are just commodities.
Don't feel sorry for the young people at LLNS. Those of us who maintained a publication record and contacts outside the lab can find new jobs in the private sector. I had 9 years between LANL and LLNL, going back to . Signed up right away, and now just waiting to see if I signed up early enough. Either way, I am out-a-here!
I just don't understand the people who are staying. Why? Either too young to retire or too old to change careers?
To February 25, 2008 7:26 AM, have you thought of a law suit? I wonder if they would change their mind after receiving a letter from a lawyer.
"I just don't understand the people who are staying. Why? Either too young to retire or too old to change careers?"
You hit the nail on the head!
in other words: LLNS got some us by the
huevos!
The pretend incentive gets a pretend response.
Hint. Hey George, wake up. Try a 3+3 without exemptions. You'll get the reluctant 500.
And you'll do just fine.
The post-1992 lab was stronger than the pre-1992 lab. For every treasured greybeard you lose, you can hire a golden boy and golden girl that will pee on the grave of the greybeard, and bow to Ayatollah Obama.
Hell, offer it to yourself and get out of here. You deserve a rest. It ain't exactly WWII.
"Try a 3+3 without exemptions"
You think George et.al. are pretty stupid, apparently. Get off the 3+3 kick. It will never happen, get it, NEVER! Geez...Where have you been? It isn't a secret that even when we were manged by UC they made it abundantly clear they would never offer a vsip that had age or years of service as an incentive.
Your ranting about "3+3" is getting really old. Move on.
"I just don't understand the people who are staying. Why? Either too young to retire or too old to change careers?"
I am staying because I like it hard and fast.
I am staying to watch the train wreck; There is something about mangled bodies lieing about the LLNS rail track.
So when is LLNS going to have the balls to publish the final nuber of people that took the VSSOP. Why's everything have to be a secret. We need to know because if only 200 took the VSSOP, the ISP will have to dispose of 550 more in a month or so and definately before June of 2008. When someone has the real and final numbers please post it. It should become a top level post.
So when is LLNS going to have the balls to publish the final nuber of people that took the VSSOP.
The VSSOP sign-up will end tonight, 2/26. People still have 7 days from their sign-up to back out, so the final numbers may not be exact until next week. The final number will be well known.
Unless something happens at the last minute, the number will be about 200, way short of the 750 goal. If LANL could get only 450 and it offered a better incentive, why would anyone expect more than 200? Every day that people are not released increases the budget problem and ultimately will result in more layoffs.
"Every day that people are not released increases the budget problem and ultimately will result in more layoffs"
You got it, so here we come ISP. 550 more to go plus maybe the original 300FTE on that "special" list of unwanted dead weight option is about to be executed.
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