J&J not in the 50 best to work at list

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It was no surprise to me that J&J didn't make the list of the top 50 companies to work for in the US this year.

What was a surprise to me, is that J&J managed to not make the 50 worse companies to work for in the US this year.

About the only product J&J made this year were layoffs, fear and confusion.

Keep up the good work Bill & the executive team.

But, there's always next year.
 






Sadly, who should be surprised. Putting the total chaos of the past year aside . . . . what would you expect when:

We had something like 5 straight years of DECLINING Credo Surveys. Yes, JNJ one conducted them on a regular basis but slowed them down to hide bad news. Then it changed the questions to start with fresh data . . . but it still kept going down.

JNJ eliminated HR and outsource the function to a fairly weak vendor. Recommendation to JNJ Execs, go ask your employees how satisfied they are with The Reed Group and the OURSOURCE Portral (can you hear the laughter?).

The corporation has no checks or balances on the medicre decisions of Weldon and his cronies.

Nobody screams "BS!" when the top leadership receives extraordinary compensation for average leadership.

The company often turns a blind eye to the obvious and so slow to recognize predictable realities it has to resort to mass layoffs to stem the hemoraging when wise leadership 7 years ago might have averted the crises today.

JNJ has failed to develop a culture of people development.

R&D had been notoriously unproductive for 15 years.

It doesn't take a $24 mm bonus, a private corporate jet and helicopter, and an 8.4 house to figure this out.
 


Sadly, who should be surprised. Putting the total chaos of the past year aside . . . . what would you expect when:

We had something like 7 straight years of DECLINING Credo Surveys. Yes, JNJ once conducted them on a regular basis but slowed them down to hide bad news. Then it changed the questions to start with fresh data . . . but it still kept going down.

JNJ eliminated HR and outsource the function to a fairly weak vendor. Recommendation to JNJ Execs, go ask your employees how satisfied they are with The Reed Group and the OURSOURCE Portral (can you hear the laughter?).

The corporation has no checks or balances on the medicre decisions of Weldon and his cronies.

Nobody screams "BS!" when the top leadership receives extraordinary compensation for average leadership.

The company often turns a blind eye to the obvious and so slow to recognize predictable realities it has to resort to mass layoffs to stem the hemoraging when wise leadership 7 years ago might have averted the crises today.

JNJ has failed to develop a culture of people development.

R&D had been notoriously unproductive for 15 years.

It doesn't take a $24 mm bonus, a private corporate jet and helicopter, and an $8.4 million house to figure this out.
 


J&J does not participate in this list of Best COmpanies to Work For - they stopped doing it around 2002 or 2003. A lot of work went into the survey - and at the time they felt the criteria was biased towards surviving dot-com companies - so they just stopped participating. If you do not partiicpate - you will not be on the list.
 


Anonymous said:
J&J does not participate in this list of Best COmpanies to Work For - they stopped doing it around 2002 or 2003. A lot of work went into the survey - and at the time they felt the criteria was biased towards surviving dot-com companies - so they just stopped participating. If you do not partiicpate - you will not be on the list.
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Nice cover. But, you can't hide the truth and that is the simple fact that J&J is no longer an "admired" company like it was years ago. The previous poster is correct about the declining culture. Right now, with not many options out there, J&J is the best form of unemployment going. Collect a check and do as little as possible is what the cuture is now. It has become like a state run government agency.
 


here here! regardless of the real reason j&j is not on the list, the place sucks and has for the past few years in an ever increasing fashion.

watch out j&j, the economy IS improving... jobs are becoming available albeit slowly. at some point, you'll lose your best employees (the ones you've got left that you haven't already axed).

with a lack of innovation, good leadership and the shitty culture, you'll be a thing of the past. gotta love the karma. :)
 


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here here! regardless of the real reason j&j is not on the list, the place sucks and has for the past few years in an ever increasing fashion.

watch out j&j, the economy IS improving... jobs are becoming available albeit slowly. at some point, you'll lose your best employees (the ones you've got left that you haven't already axed).

with a lack of innovation, good leadership and the shitty culture, you'll be a thing of the past. gotta love the karma. :)
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It is all about the stockholders not the employees...
 


Anonymous said:
Sadly, who should be surprised. Putting the total chaos of the past year aside . . . . what would you expect when:

We had something like 5 straight years of DECLINING Credo Surveys. Yes, JNJ one conducted them on a regular basis but slowed them down to hide bad news. Then it changed the questions to start with fresh data . . . but it still kept going down.

JNJ eliminated HR and outsource the function to a fairly weak vendor. Recommendation to JNJ Execs, go ask your employees how satisfied they are with The Reed Group and the OURSOURCE Portral (can you hear the laughter?).

The corporation has no checks or balances on the medicre decisions of Weldon and his cronies.

Nobody screams "BS!" when the top leadership receives extraordinary compensation for average leadership.

The company often turns a blind eye to the obvious and so slow to recognize predictable realities it has to resort to mass layoffs to stem the hemoraging when wise leadership 7 years ago might have averted the crises today.

JNJ has failed to develop a culture of people development.

R&D had been notoriously unproductive for 15 years.

It doesn't take a $24 mm bonus, a private corporate jet and helicopter, and an 8.4 house to figure this out.
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Corporate management has spent decades lobbying state and federal legislators to remove any real threat to management from shareholders, so today's U.S. corporation is essentially a means for upper management to loot the shareholders' property.

Did anyone even notice that Charles Prince, the man who presided over Citigroup's crash-and-burn, is on the JNJ board of directors? Did anyone send in their last Proxy to vote against him (and all the other miscreants and sycophants on the board)?

The U.S. stock market is headed for (I'm not kidding) a 95% decline in the next couple years. By the bottom most people will have figured out the truth of the previous couple paragraphs. That will be a great buying opportunity (hopefully all these criminals in management will have been given concrete overcoats and dropped in nearby lakes by then).

J&J is just one more conduit to enrich the Weldons of the world while ripping off the fools who buy the company's shares. This highway robbery will continue until the share price is trading below that of 1974.
 




Upon reading this thread and being a current JNJ employee I feel compelled to provide another perspective. I have been with JNJ for 3 years and made a career change to join the organization, with 20 years of experience in other industries and a different profession. All I can say is that I could not be happier nor more satisfied with my decision to join JNJ. I am extremely proud to be an employee of the organization and I truly believe that the company always tries to make the right decision and does a trendous job treating employees fairly and offers opportunities to those who deserved it.
 


Anonymous said:
Upon reading this thread and being a current JNJ employee I feel compelled to provide another perspective. I have been with JNJ for 3 years and made a career change to join the organization, with 20 years of experience in other industries and a different profession. All I can say is that I could not be happier nor more satisfied with my decision to join JNJ. I am extremely proud to be an employee of the organization and I truly believe that the company always tries to make the right decision and does a trendous job treating employees fairly and offers opportunities to those who deserved it.
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You must be in the "Management Development Program" Another brilliant up and coming star!
GO away!
 


Anonymous said:
Upon reading this thread and being a current JNJ employee I feel compelled to provide another perspective. I have been with JNJ for 3 years and made a career change to join the organization, with 20 years of experience in other industries and a different profession. All I can say is that I could not be happier nor more satisfied with my decision to join JNJ. I am extremely proud to be an employee of the organization and I truly believe that the company always tries to make the right decision and does a trendous job treating employees fairly and offers opportunities to those who deserved it.
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Great that it's still early enough in your career that you are able to maintain this perspective. With all due respsect to your opinions, you've only been with J&J for three years and have not yet seen the changes over the past 5-7 years and the way J&J has treated their employees. Additionally, in spite of what the Credo says, the recent decisions and practices of J&J clearly puts the investor before the patient. This is a dramatic change from the practices of the past leadership. Weldon is no Ralph Larsen for sure.
So, while it would be great to see your opinion remain positive, for those of us who spent nearly 20 years with J&J, it is difficult for us to maintain that positive view. We've seen too much no to let that alter our opinions.
 





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