The days of yore vs let me show you the door

[Anonymous]

I've been retired since 2004 but still live in the Indianapolis area. People typically ask where I worked and after telling them Eli Lilly, the response is usually "Wow, I hear that's a great place to work!" My response is "It used to be but not anymore." Then they say, "Yeah, that's what I've heard."
Then when talking to current employees, I hear almost all negatives. So I'm thinking back to my military days of "the bitching troop is the happy troop" and figure that Lilly employees must be some of the happiest people on the planet.

My dad always said to protect your good name because when others hear your name they will have already formed opinions of you based on past behaviors. Congratulations Lilly management on taking a respected name in the pharmaceutical industry and dragging it through the mud. That whirring sound you hear in Indianapolis is the bodies of all the Lilly family spinning in their graves.

I left because work was no longer enjoyable thinking it would only get worse and sadly that seems to be the case.

[Anonymous]

Yes, that's true, but it's even worse. All of this is happening while Dr. L (how many drugs did he help develop during 30 years?) just received $21M in compensation. It is shameful. He is literally scraping the flesh off the bones of the Lilly family name. Hannibal Leichleiter, has a ring to it, doesn't it?


I've been retired since 2004 but still live in the Indianapolis area. People typically ask where I worked and after telling them Eli Lilly, the response is usually "Wow, I hear that's a great place to work!" My response is "It used to be but not anymore." Then they say, "Yeah, that's what I've heard."
Then when talking to current employees, I hear almost all negatives. So I'm thinking back to my military days of "the bitching troop is the happy troop" and figure that Lilly employees must be some of the happiest people on the planet.

My dad always said to protect your good name because when others hear your name they will have already formed opinions of you based on past behaviors. Congratulations Lilly management on taking a respected name in the pharmaceutical industry and dragging it through the mud. That whirring sound you hear in Indianapolis is the bodies of all the Lilly family spinning in their graves.

I left because work was no longer enjoyable thinking it would only get worse and sadly that seems to be the case.

[Anonymous]

Was at the home office a short while ago. Sat in the lobby early in the AM just watching all of the 30-somethings file in, go straight to the in-house Starbucks then off to the office. The office being the place where they pretend to be working. I assume working on a 96 hour erection pill that the world so desperately needs.

Now you might say I'm just some old guy ranting about the good old days. Maybe someone needs to go in, clean house, instill some common sense and forget about what the manager's book of the month club tells you to do. Do the right thing. Maybe at this point it's cleaning house.

Lilly is a pathetic organization. The good news is that so are most of the other pharma companies. Upper management will continue to line their golden parachutes for the day when the have to use it. Then they will either go on the book tour or go screw up another company because of their vast experience.

[Anonymous]

Steve Paul just got another job. He will indeed screw that place up as bad as he did Lilly. And just as you said, with his golden Parachute in tow that 5000 jobless people bought him.

[Anonymous]

Steve Paul just got another job. He will indeed screw that place up as bad as he did Lilly. And just as you said, with his golden Parachute in tow that 5000 jobless people bought him.

He can continue working his Alzheimer's Magic like he did @ lly--HAH HAH HAA!!! Hack.