KCI Management

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  1. Anonymous

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    AVPs mad DMs

    We know you visit this site. Please read and take notice of what's going on. These posts can't be written off as a few disgruntled bad apples. Go to Hawkins and plead for him to turn this thing around. Look at the facts and if you can't see it, bring consultants in. A few pockets of sales of focus products are the exception and not the norm. Why doesn't a company this size have better products? IT'S NOT THE SALES FORCE!!! Over 200 resumes have with key words like "wound" and "NPWT" have hit the internet in the last 3 weeks. You are facing a crisis. do something
     

  2. Anonymous

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    prev post. I'm not bashing your post or you. However, you must either be new to the company or fairly young. This management group/senior leadership does not care one iota about you, the products, the patients, the culture. You're post probably made them grin like the Grinch who stole Christmas.

    The decision makers here are looking to do one thing and one thing only. That's is to do anything they can to sell off this company. They all will make millions from the sale. The DMs will make thousands. All life changing opportunities. You and I will just fade away.
     
  3. Anonymous

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    Right on! So you screw them like they screw us. Obviously you are not happy. Work less and look for another job. Better yet work the minimum and do a 1099. There are 3 in my district doing this. Punch in and punch out. The more of us that do this the longer it will take to sell this sinking turd.
     
  4. Anonymous

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    I understand the motivation of equity investors for the most part. It sure seems that APAX made a monumental blunder with the purchase of KCI. Too bad for them, they have no one to blame but themselves. A lot of the decline should have been predicted.
    With all the talk about selling tho I am curious who in their right minds would be looking to purchase this bomb?
    Would APAX just sell it off to the highest bidder at a loss ?
    How are they possibly going to repay their debt ?
     
  5. Anonymous

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    Yes upper managment is in it for one thing only...I think our managers will be casulties as well but there is one goal and one goal only for 2015, prep for an IPO. There is NO WAY anyone will buy this company even at half of what APAX paid for it. The only way this works is to build the legend of a company that is a "can't miss" and is waiting for IPO $'s to take it to the next level. As the stage is set, the IPO stock price will be large enough for several of the APAX investors to make the most of their investment and will begin selling. The management team will also receive stocks as well. The problem is that Wall Street will look at the previous quarters non-profit (9 quarters in row now at LOSS!!!) and the 1st and only justification from management is "we need to trim our staff down" to be more profitable along with the investment $'s from an IPO. Start watching people get released for expenses wrong, not hitting their # in 1 quarter, etc. I have been through this before and once the easy pickens are gone you will see the large layoff plan move forward. Hint to anyone looking for a good advertising opportunity, the KCI Cafepharma thread will have thousands of views per day just like two years ago. And once again we will hear the Homers say "nothing will happen, this is a great place to work and I love my job every day, just talked to an inside source and we are getting our cars back, stock options for the IPO, and a new pump that heals wounds in half the time is on the way". Please spare us the BS and have your resume ready.
     
  6. Anonymous

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    WOW, perfectly stated and makes a lot of sense. Hawk has once chance to retire and this is it. Watch the dominos fall as he becomes the hero if he can pull this off. To bad noone respects him except 1% of the force
     
  7. Anonymous

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    They are looking to go public and get an IPO. This way APEX does not experience the direct costs of the constant losses we are experiencing. It is a bit risky because Acelity (granted it's new) has not had a profitable quarter in some time. Apex is trying to hide all the bad KCI stuff under a new name. Once it goes public the hope is that investors will buy more stock thus helping APAX reduce their initial lost. The problem is that right now, this company is not worth a turd in the toilet. Apax is making cuts and shaving expenses any way possible, this way it looks profitable on paper. We all know it's not. It's going to be rough if expectations are not met in Q4. I would anticipate them possibly buying another company to offset some loss and take a shot at getting lucky with some new product. There's no money being placed in research. There's no incentive to sell product. This place is in turmoil don't kid yourself.
     
  8. Anonymous

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    Sure there may be some casualties at the DM level but we will survive. You know as well as I do most of us made a killing at the APEX buy out and some of us have been given options with the hope of another windfall if we get this IPO
     
  9. Anonymous

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    Poster 2

    I can't say what without revealing too much, but you you left a couple options out regarding youth and tenure
    I am like a few other people. I like the job for some very specific reasons. Again, it's applies just to me and there are reasons I want to stay. I just wish some logic and common sense could be applied. Right now everything is like putting a band aid on a broken arm
     
  10. Anonymous

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    No.............It's like putting a vac on a road rash or a Stage 1. Oh, I'm sorry management tells us we are suppose to do that to increase our utility.
     
  11. Anonymous

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    BLUNDER? They were sold a bag of bones. Spent 6.3 Billion dollars of the Canadian Teachers Pension on a company that was worth about 4 Billion. No one over at APAX lost their job. No one over at APEX gets treated like we do as Acelity bleeds money. There is not a NPWT device big enough to save this place. Forgot...... Woody and Hawks our fearless leaders can save us.
     
  12. Anonymous

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    I still cannot grasp any rational reason that this organization would appeal to any investor ?
    Why an IPO vs outright sale to some other company ?
    Either way it seems the only chance they could possibly have would be NOW with the SNN pump being a non player in the US. With 9 losing quarters, 300 M owed to Wake Forest ( won't even talk about biting the hand that feeds you) isn't BANKRUPTCY a real possibility @ this rate. This has to be one of the most confusing and stupid hostile take overs ever !
     
  13. Anonymous

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    no,no,no. We are not to be paid for VAC orders..just specialty products. memba??!!!
     
  14. Anonymous

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    I worked for KCI about 6 years and left 3 years ago. Told management that VIA was a piece of shit, that Prevena should have an adapter to hook up to the info....no one in the hospital liked that little beeping device . Finally I let my RVP know that my hospitals love Abthera but don't want that mack truck vac. Hell they couldn't even keep inventory of the infos and I telling them to bring in a separate vac. Needless to say I was managed out. Did not go quietly since I threatened to sue them and get nice "BE QUIET" exit compensation.

    Now I hear that they have adapters for both abthera and prevena. That VIA is just about as popular as Julie Davis and Mike Helbock.

    When are you going to accept that Kathy was the sharpest person at KCI and she screwed everyone. APAX did not even have enough money to buy this wreck and had to borrow money from Burzec.

    Wake up peeps
     
  15. Anonymous

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    WOW spoken like a veteran field rep who was in the trenches. That was the beginning of this demise. Sad to admit that I am still here and remember those blunders and names you mention. Remember when she read the prayer of the teleprompt? Nearly pissed myself!
     
  16. anonymous

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    They have already started phasing people out who have been there for a long time...ie...read too expensive. There are no benefits any longer and if you aren't an a$$ kisser don't expect to get anywhere. Being good at your job isn't enough anymore.

    I agree..Kathy put it over on everyone. Apex bought the dolled up pig hook, line and sinker. There was even a big party to celebrate. But hey, she neeeded the millions to build her new ballroom. She did such a con job selling VIA to Apax as a miracle money maker when everyone in Engineering knew it was a joke.
     
  17. anonymous

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    .....AND current Sr. Management team running it into the ground!!!! They've wasted millions on how they run the business!!! Go hire more consultants because they don't know how to do their jobs!
     
  18. anonymous

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    Yes...not only hire consultants or outside engineering firms to develop a product when KCI people are sitting idle but have to send previous said idle people in to fix the consultants screw ups. KCI management couldn't find their own a$$es with a map and both hands.
     
  19. anonymous

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    I agree with the a$$ kissing part. Management here is inexperienced and the only thing they add is their lips on the Regional VP's a$$.
     
  20. anonymous

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    Recently saw a KCI DM job posting. Can't believe these guys make $150 base and $200+ with bonus. Laughable.