Pentagon stops work on F-35's 2nd engine - Washington Times

Obama finally gets his way and got funding for the GE/Rolls Royce alternate engine stopped. Congress made him take funding ("pork") when funding for the F-22 got stopped.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/mar/24/pentagon-stops-work-on-f-35s-2nd-engine-action-uni/

Lower and Middle Level Managers Do the Dirty Work

See this story on the Mail Online web page: First pictures emerge of the Fukushima Fifty as steam starts pouring from all four reactors at the stricken nuclear power plant.

"The Fukushima Fifty - an anonymous band of lower and mid-level managers - have battled around the clock to cool overheating reactors and spent fuel rods since the disaster on March 11."

LOOKS LIKE that the peon-workers were told to go home while the middle and lower level managers stayed behind to prevent the power plant from going into full meltdown.

IN OTHER WORDS, the managers are doing the hard, dirty work - obviously they didn't trust the peons to do the work at first.

AT Northrop Grumman, would management do this this?

Or would management tell the employees to get the job done, no matter how hard, no matter what has to be done?

LOOKS LIKE the Japanese managers at this power plant will not ask their employees to do what they themselves would not do - the fifty lower and middle level managers were later joined by 150 others who ALL KNEW that it was a dangerous thing to do. They worked in shifts to reduce exposure to the radiation.

Five are already believed to have died and fifteen more injured - they all know that this work can kill them.

Would Northrop Grumman managers set an example like this?

CNN - Zappos CEO on why happiness at work matters

Hey, check this out from CNN:
Zappos CEO on why happiness at work matters http://www.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/03/23/zappos.tony.hsieh.happiness/index.html?iphoneemail

This is totally RADICAL and FOREIGN concept (Mr. Hsieh is a YOUNG FOREIGN-looking dude) that would NEVER fly at Northrop-Grumman

Management would never allow the employees to be happy - that is not the Notlrthrop-Grumman way.

Fear and intimidation is how employees are kept in line. Much easier than trying to keep a bunch of ungrateful, low-productivity, incompetent, and undisciplined employees "happy".

Article: Northrop to enhance classified networks

Northrop to enhance classified networks - UPI

Northrop-Grumman must be telling people stories about its classified network capabilities. It apparently improved it's security practices since I left. Enough said. 

It's one thing to win, entirely different thing to make money

I'm reading about 'Boeing's next tanker challenge: Meeting deadlines, making money' on Fluent News. Here is the link: http://fluentnews.com/s/26530841

Back when Northrop-Grumman was just plain Northrop, it had a big sub-contract building a big part of the Boeing 747.

The good news: Northrop negotiated a renewal of it's contract with Boeing, landing some mucky-mucky a nice bonus.

The bad news: Northrop wasn't going to make any money under the terms of the contract.

End result: Northrop sold off the commercial side of the business building 747 fuselage and only build military aircraft.

Now Boeing has won the KC-X contract, it needs to figure out how to make money and meet schedule under the terms of the contract.

As my wife tells me, "All women put on a act to get a husband".

Some men are too easily fooled, she tells me.

The government seems easily fooled.

The Pentagon spends big $$$ while cutting back on other programd

See the Los Angeles Times story on a Black Project under this headline:

"Space plane: Space plane and its secret payload set for launch will have plenty of prying eyes - latimes.com"

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-space-plane-20110304,0,2891507.story

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Lay-offs in India - BBC News - India manager 'killed by workers'

Given that there has been lay-offs at Northrop Grumman, people are taking it relatively peacefully, especially when compared to Indian workers (them folks in INDIA).

When those guys get "sacked" (British for lay-off) they go out and do things to the managers.

Here's a story about how Indian workers expressed their displeasure after being sacked: "...a group of irate workers surrounded the vehicle, doused it with petrol and set it on fire..."

India manager 'killed by workers'

Of course, the security guards at the company gates who witnessed this did NOT come to the manager's aid.

Obviously they were doing their jobs in protecting the company property, as the property was not attacked - just the manager.