So, what buildings / departments are getting deliveries of cardboard filing boxes? More boxes will be needed for those areas with bigger layoffs -- or more long-term employees being cut. Those scientists will need more boxes to collect their 20 years of stuff from their desks and labs to ship home...
Sounds like it was a bloodbath @ MRL WP this week. Cuts of 30-50% lower-level bench chemists and the PhD managers got to stay. http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/10/31/mercks_aftermath.php
No posts on this Merck Lab Personnel message board since January? I guess there's nobody left in the labs...