There was a huge re-org with summary firings in 2020, right before the long July 4th weekend and right after we‘d all been sent home for COVID and were trying to figure out the whole work-from-home thing. Great timing! Great example of our corporate value of Grace and Respect! The firings were supposedly to get rid of an excessive amount of upper management, which had some validity, but since then there has been a HUGE influx of VPs, mostly from outside the company with no clue how an FFRDC works. They are the opposite of helpful. Now the upper management is trying to turn us into a commercial enterprise, I can only assume this is so that they will make more money. There are also serious financial issues, which management is not addressing clearly with staff but, guess what, we‘re all engineers, we lead projects and can see the data, we can figure it out! I was shocked that the board extended our CEOs contract. He‘s totally incompetent and should be fired immediately. Before his time there were certainly issues, but he has 100% lost the trust of the staff. We keep getting pop surveys about how we feel about the company, but they NEVER ask for feedback on the exec level, because we all know what that would be. Oddly the all seem to think we adore them so there’s a real disconnect.
