NA-YGN (North American Young Generation in Nuclear; <35 yrs old, <10 years experience) was mentioned in another thread. I thought I’d start a new thread seeking opinions on how effective this organization is as local chapters at your various sites.
My personal opinion of my local chapter is that it is not effective – my belief is that it should exist to serve its members through professional development opportunities and serve the company by input regarding entry-level employee recruitment and retention. What I’ve seen though is just a bunch of social gatherings with company-paid food and beverages under the guise of “networking”, and little advocacy for the membership as a whole by the chapter officers who do indeed have access to Directors, VPs and above.
What are your perceptions of the organization, either as members yourself or as non-members seeing how these “young ‘uns” operate?