Thanks for nothing Novartis. From Alcon

Discussion in 'Novartis' started by anonymous, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:46 PM.

  1. anonymous

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    They couldn't name one piece of equipment Alcon sells.
     

  2. anonymous

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    It truly is a joke to go into surgery w anyone from Novartis.
    They're just lost.
     
  3. anonymous

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    Nice work Joe. Really well done, everything is going just superb over here at Alcon.
    Thanks again for the Jeff George experiment. He was outstanding for our business. Must have been nice for his dad too. I'm assuming you owed him a favor or lost a bet?

    We also appreciate all the great GM, VP & RD choices on the Eye Care side. Nothing like appointing people without ophthalmic experience to run an ophthalmic company. I'm not kidding when I say not one of them even knows what we sell or how it functions in the eye. Customers won't even let them in the front door. Good times.

    Really looking forward to the IRIS/SAP launch in surgical. Do you have any idea what is about to happen? The back orders will absolutely cause cases to be cancelled and when that happens Hospitals and ASCs will take their business elsewhere. Yep, it's a disaster party all over Alcon.

    You've directly allowed & enabled all this. I'm sure what's happened to Alcon under your watch will someday be studied in business classes of how not to run a company. Thank you, you're legendary in your ineptitude.
     
  4. anonymous

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    All we hear about at Alcon since the merger (hostile takeover) from Novartis is how compliant and ethical our parent company is. Now for at least the third time Novartis is either being sued for straight out paying doctors or paying an enormous fine for something similar. Mean while at Alcon we have to take compliance test after compliance test, waste all our time conforming to your "ethical" standards and completely revamp our entire expense reporting system for tracking purposes. All the while getting run into the ground by the morons running the show.
    NEWSFLASH we're not the ones screwing up all the damn time. Fix your own problems, policies and procedures for Christ sake. Novartis absolutely blows.
     
  5. anonymous

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    Word.
     
  6. anonymous

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    And now you have outsourced our IT dept to India. Not surprisingly, we are now suffering major consequences as a result. It's kind of hard to do your job without an iPad or laptop.

    Thanks for screwing up our once great company Novartis.
     
  7. anonymous

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    I would really like to meet one person from Novartis who can describe a retina surgical procedure, any procedure. I've had these people come work with me and they are a total embarrassment with our customers. Can not speak with any credibility what so ever to the best surgeons in the world b/c they don't know the business.
    Take some time learn for Christ's sake b/c you're making fools of yourselves.
     
  8. anonymous

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    They've outsourced pcard/tecard service to India now as well. It gets worse every day.
     
  9. anonymous

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    Get out of the surgical business ASAFP. This is beyond ridiculous.
    Every single customer/account meeting I walk into the first thing I hear is something along the lines of, "does Novartis have any idea what they're doing to your surgical business. They have no idea what Alcon does." This is real and it is everyday.
    Joe and NVS: a LenSx is a 300K+ piece of equipment. You may want to know what it is, what it does and why it's important. Alcon is embarrassed by having its name next to Novartis.
     
  10. anonymous

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    Novartis is not a surgical company, has no experience with how to run a surgical business, and certainly has no knowledge of any of Alcon's products. When you have no credibility in the surgical space you have nothing. So to the point of this thread, thanks for nothing Novartis.
     
  11. anonymous

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    Novartis isn't much of a company at all. They are experts at fraud. They have no credibility anywhere, with anyone. They don't know how to run pharma or surgical business. That's why they spend so much money lining pockets.
     
  12. anonymous

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  13. RIP ALCON

    RIP ALCON Guest

    I started working for Alcon in late 2011. My intial impressions were good and hopes were high, although the CIBA integration was taking its toll on the core business in my affiliate. Since then i have watched its systematic destruction by the puppets Novartis placed in our ELT. Greed, incompetence, politics and arrogance sent our best running for the exits. Those left were gifted with ever increasing workloads or targets and nothing but bad news to absorb. Morale is at rock bottom and people are turning on one another. Resigned. Good riddance! Profits before people is the NVS way.
    Lesson learnt, do your research on a company first. Oh and when your leaders go quiet, there's nothing good coming your way. RIP Alcon, its been awful!
     
  14. anonymous

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    That summary is spot on.

    As goes Alcon, so goes...
     
  15. anonymous

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    Exactly.
     
  16. anonymous

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    Isn't it interesting that Alcon managed to have a very successful/thriving surgical, pharmaceuatical and vision care business model for decades. However, once Novartis took over (and they did take over) that's when everything went south. Alcon never had an issue running all three business units but BIG PHARMA had to come along and screw it all up. The only winners in this debacle is Nestle and all the jokers who brokered the deal with NVS and then got out.

    If you ever have the pleasure of someone from Novartis riding with you in the field ask them some questions about ophthalmology and listen to the "answers" you get back. All deflection just like a politician. They won't even bother to do their homework and will embarrass themselves in front of customers. It would be funny if it wasn't so damn sad.
     
  17. anonymous

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    Word.
     
  18. anonymous

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    Alcon is Joe's baby, not Vasella's. Most everything Vasella has built is what brought Novartis to #1. In Pharma, it is the strategy and actions you take 5-7 years prior that yield fruit in the current day. So, what you seeing is the decline of a company that Vasella built and that Joe is destroying.
     
  19. anonymous

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    Take out the first sentence, and everything you say is 100% true.
     
  20. anonymous

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    Thanks to Novartis the doomsday clock for Alcon has been set to 5 minutes from midnight. The next 12-24 months maximum will determine the company's fate.