Name Your Favorite Merck Boondoggle

I know there's plenty, let's hear your favorite!

 

there was the time literally every single employee spent a couple of hours a week, every week filling out timesheets and it took over a decade before we realised nobody ever used the data & stopped collecting it.

 

Prague

 

COMET

 

Let's not forget when VoIP telephones were already in widespread use in the home for years, not to mention in business but Merck was still spending big bucks every month on internal telephone calls with AT&T.

 

Prague is awesome! They drink and party all night and hold meetings that start late and end early. Nothing ever gets done, but that is the point. It is a load of fun!

 

Prague is the right answer. Friends with benefits, lots of 20 somethings running around in short shorts. Pete is in heaven!

 

What about NotPetya remediation?

All those dollars spent and labor hours taken and our best protection remains to hope it doesn’t happen again.

 

ITIL. What were the travel, expenses and training costs for the roll-out of this across the company worldwide when we could have achieved the same at zero cost by sending out a glossary of terms to everyone in IT so we all used the same terminology for the processes we were already following. Also who looks at the methodology a government came up with for managing their IT and thinks, those guys really know how to do IT well, let's follow that.

 

vioxx

 

legal action over the Merck name with Merck AG.

 

We have a winner!

 

Nobody mentioned 15 by '15 ?!?!

 

Medco acquisition 1993

 

Schering Plough acquisition 2009

 

Cubist Pharmaceuticals acquisition 2014

 

Whitehouse Station real estate

 

Dick Markham

 

dr. ichiro shinkai

 

Kenny Frazier. Oh so close to finally getting rid of him...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...y-amends-retirement-policy-idUSKCN1M61EU?il=0

(Reuters) - Merck & Co Inc’s (MRK.N) Kenneth Frazier will stay on as chief executive beyond 2019, the drugmaker said on Wednesday, after it scrapped a policy requiring its CEO to retire at the age of 65. Frazier, who turns 65 in December 2019, was named Merck’s CEO in 2011.