Re: I checked on my former employers how they were doing...

On Jul 29, 7:54 am, Straydog <a...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

And by the way, the "PhD" guy I mentioned in the example is actually
an immigrant from Latin America.

Well, there must be more to the story.

Actually, this was the point of my origonal posting; I just did not
get to it yet :-) The reason why the departmental head-dictator
invited this guy all the way from South America was that he was easy-
going. He would not interfere with the ideas of the dicatorial head,
but would work obediently on completing them. And if this South
American guy would ever become a manager under the departmental head,
the departmental head was sure that the SA guy would not attempt to
wrestle the power out of his hands. When the head-dictator goes away
for a month (as he always does), he would be sure that when he is back
the SA guy had not made any attempts for getting more power for
himself. (The SA guy is satisfied with whatever power the chief doles
out to him.)

I saw something similar happened at my work, when a guy of my age (or
younger) with the same number of years of postdoctoral experience (or
less) shot through the career ranks to the senior position which most
people get by the end of their careers. He was raised to it by the
boss. Why ? Because the boss delegated him some of his power (the boss
could not do all by himself). Now the guy does the project management
of some of the projects under the boss, and the boss is confident that
the guy would not be using the opportunities at his fingerprints for
his own promotion. The guy is too meek for that. In fact, looking
around my lab over the past few years, I realise that all of the
promotions were done to the easy-going meek people. Why ? Because
disobeidience in the underlings is worse for the management than
incompetence. I am yet to see the promotion done for the scientific
capability and performance.


I had this happen to me, and the lab just reorganized and was not split or
privatized. Better find out what happens to your pension, and any rights
you might have.

I think it is still premature to talk about splitting our lab. Even if
the management has this plan, then the things can change ten times
over again over the course of the next few years, because the
management is highly susceptible to the winds blowing from all
directions.

If the lab will split with one part becoming commercial, then the
staff will be given an opportunity to join this commercial entity as
private employees. Of course, they would have to give up their
government employment. If they do not want to leave the government
service, they will be given the option to be redeployed at some other
government department.

.

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