Which division is most demotivated?

Discussion in 'Merck' started by Anonymous, Aug 11, 2014 at 8:10 AM.

Tags: Add Tags
  1. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Maybe the question should be is there any division that is motivated?
     

  2. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    MRL is the pits. No confidence in leadership, demoralized and numb from constant layoffs, no hope for future, and just riding this pig out because of ridiculously high salary for what we do.
     
  3. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    I hear ya ma feel the same here in sales. Seriously though, what do you guys really do at MRL? Not trying to insult anyone but with such crap products you give us to schlep I kinda have to ask.
     
  4. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    That's a great question. We do everything except what we were hired to do. Every year it's a new initiative, new buzz words, more layoffs, more shifting of personel, and more bullshit in general.

    There's nothing of real value coming out of our labs because they got rid of almost everyone who knew what they were doing. Now we have to reinvent the wheel with people that can't think outside the box.

    Good luck selling our crap. We know most of it won't get anywhere.
     
  5. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    It sounds like the same approach these idiots had with the sales force. (I use the word "force" very liberally hereā€¦)
     
  6. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Great
     
  7. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    We churn on make work projects. We spent lot's of effort, time and money to gear up programs to be sent out to china only to hear a decisions has been made to terminate them a month or two later. We sit in regular mindless meetings to hear about somebody's project. The people presenting just want to get it over with and could care less about getting feedback. Mostly, it is just time wasted listening to the same two or three people belittle the speaker for what seems to be no apparent reason other than demonstrate how smart they are (but not really). Lastly we make sure our lab bench looks neat and tidy (as if undisturbed by activity) so we get a good mark on the pre-inspection that is followed by the managers inspection. Monday thru Friday, week after week. MRL sucks.
     
  8. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Wow, that is miserable. We should switch places for 2 days. I'll sit in your meetings and ask dumb questions dust and you chauffeur my worthless psychotic CTL around and destroy what's left of my credibility and access. Deal?
     
  9. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    SLC Utah diabetes team. They all suck! All the good ones are out looking for new jobs. in no time we'll have the piss-ant old geezers selling januvia. and the older ones are the freaking lame ass
     
  10. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Women selling it are ok in SLC, its the suck ass guys who think they're experts on all things
    you know who im talking about
     
  11. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Which division is most demotivated?

    MCC - nope. Their 5 year nightmare is soon over.
    MAH - nope. Other than Zilmax, pretty solid. Ken doesn't know it exists yet.
    MMD - maybe, not much left to manufacture, all will be done contract pretty soon
    Vaccines - maybe,
    MRL - 2nd most, people realizing that last century's chemistry skills are of no use in this biologics century.
    Drug sales - Winner. The being pretty and having a BA in Business gravy train has run off the rails.
     
  12. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    The GTO side of IT is miserable because we get $0 and get yelled at for not improving stuff

    However, the EICC side of IT is having a party because they seem to have limitless budgets to build all sorts of useless experimental systems with dubious (at best) business value which hanging out at the WeWork office in NYC drinking beer...
     
  13. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    When they do get money on the GTO IT side, they get screamed at because people don't like change yet they want to improve stuff

    This company is such a joke and as is their old school fogeys that work for it.
     
  14. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Well, if the VRIP rumors are real many of us old fogeys will be gone, leaving with a great package and can hopefully do what we love for someone who appreciates it. 5-5-1
     
  15. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    What is VRIP?

    Anyone have a idea how "well-founded" this rumor is? Sounds WAYYYYYY too good to be true at this stage in the layoff process !
     
  16. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    If Merck actually cared it would fire 70% of managers. In my org we've now reached 1:1 worker to manager ratio. It's a joke. This company is a joke.
     
  17. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    VRIP = Voluntary Retirement Incentive Program.
    Promoted in the early '90's at Merck. Something like 2% of salary for each year of service plus up to 2 years incentive. So many took the package that many areas found themselves very short handed. Had to do a bunch of hiring to have enough staff. Incompetent management is not unique to the current leadership.
     
  18. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Anyone have a idea how "well-founded" this rumor is? Sounds WAYYYYYY too good to be true at this stage in the layoff process !
     
  19. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    There can't be that many "old" people left, so if would be a great plan to exit those people and reshuffle and/or save the jobs of younger people who still have years to work.

    Also, it would mean not having a huge reorganization of departments, sales teams etc.....just move people into remaining slots on an as needed basis.

    Everyone could win, at a much lower cost!
     
  20. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    There aren't that many old people left. This seems like a desperate move to not destroy whatever shred of morale is left at this miserable place.