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This is SOOOOO TRUE. Upper management makes mistakes and very poor judgement calls, and if you do not agree with them or you voice your concern, you get the axe. IF YOU MAINTAIN A SET OF VALUES OR MORALS HIGHER THAN THAT OF AMGENS, YOU GET FIRED.
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Also when there is a woman involved that make accusations you are done such in KB case. It has happened before with male employees. Not one woman walked out yet and there is a few that should have been. If you are male you're done KG will eat you alive and throw you out the gate.
 










































Maybe management should look at DG of instrumentation. I watched him knowingly put calibration data into a work order which was for the wrong RTD. He didn't get caught. So he keeps his job. Skid 309 in bldg 1 to be exact. Maybe this was to blame for all the contaminations during this time frame. Who knows.
 






Anonymous said:
Maybe management should look at DG of instrumentation. I watched him knowingly put calibration data into a work order which was for the wrong RTD. He didn't get caught. So he keeps his job. Skid 309 in bldg 1 to be exact. Maybe this was to blame for all the contaminations during this time frame. Who knows.
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Whoooah this was a long time ago.

There was alot of this that has happened, even recently, but people have gotten away with it.

Let's face it we all make mistakes some people just paid more than others. Is that fair, no but how do you correct it??????
 






Anonymous said:
Maybe management should look at DG of instrumentation. I watched him knowingly put calibration data into a work order which was for the wrong RTD. He didn't get caught. So he keeps his job. Skid 309 in bldg 1 to be exact. Maybe this was to blame for all the contaminations during this time frame. Who knows.
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Lets look at the recent firings in the past eight months almost all of them were unjust. We had managers who choose to look away at some employees and terminate others for their own self satisfaction. If that is the type of management we have with no consideration of people with families and shape of the economy and current job market especially in RI i can see why we are in serious trouble. Is this what we have become where self preservation is more important than the devistation of job losses to co workers and their families. It's really sad amgen breeds these type of people.
 






Getting worse in

R.I. as unemployment rate tops 12 percent.

07:40 AM EDT on Friday, June 19, 2009

By Andy Smith

Journal Staff Writer

Rhode Island’s unemployment rate jumped sharply to 12.1 percent in May, up from 11.1 percent in April, according to a report issued Friday by the state Department of Labor and Training. The number of jobless Rhode Islanders increased by 5,800, to 68,500.

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It’s the highest unemployment rate for the state since at least 1976, when the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping records. “I was certainly looking for a different number,” Sandra Powell, director of the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training, said in an interview.

The state shed 1,100 jobs in May, marking the 16th consecutive month of job losses in Rhode Island. Between May 2008 and May 2009, the state lost 20,700 jobs.

The national unemployment rate also rose, from 8.9 percent in April to 9.4 percent in May. Unemployment in Massachusetts grew slightly during the same period, from 8 percent in April to 8.2 percent in May.

Economists who had projected Rhode Island unemployment would peak at about 12 percent are now revising their estimates upward.

In early May, Andres Carbacho-Burgos, of Moody’s Economy.com, predicted that Rhode Island’s jobless rate would reach a high of 12.3 percent in 2010. On Wednesday, even before the latest Rhode Island figures were released, Carbacho-Burgos said it was more likely the rate would top out at 12.7 percent in the second quarter of 2010. He predicted it would take until 2014 before the state’s jobless rate shrank to the levels of late 2007 and early 2008, when the unemployment rate was between 6 percent and 6.5 percent.

Carbacho-Burgos said Moody’s had revised its estimates upward for the whole country, not just Rhode Island, and that the U.S. unemployment rate will top 10 percent. “Job loss is not abating as fast as we thought,” he said.

Despite the rise in U.S. unemployment, economists are still predicting the start of a national economic recovery later this year. There was some encouraging news Thursday when the Labor Department reported that the total number of people on unemployment insurance fell for the first time since early January, dropping 148,000, the largest decline in more than seven years.

Leonard Lardaro, professor of economics at the University of Rhode Island, said he had thought Rhode Island’s jobless rate would taper off somewhere between 12 percent and 12.5 percent. Now, he said, he wouldn’t rule out 13 percent.

He said employment is one of the last areas in an economy to show improvement, what economists call a lagging indicator. “It shows where we’ve been, not where we’re going. It’s like driving a car using nothing but the rear-view mirror,” he said.

That’s because business are reluctant to hire additional workers until they’re convinced that an economic recovery is actually under way.

In past recessions, Lardaro said, growth in manufacturing and construction brought the state out of the economic doldrums. But now that’s changed. “What are the engines of growth in Rhode Island now? Tourism, health care, nonprofits,” he said. “They will generate a recovery whose speed isn’t going to be giving anybody whiplash.”

Powell, the state labor director, said the total Rhode Island labor force, which includes both employed and unemployed, rose from 563,400 in April to 566,100 in May, a gain of 2,700. She said that’s an encouraging sign if it means more people are looking for work, as opposed to opting out of the job hunt altogether. But it also contributes to a rise in the unemployment rate, since the government only counts people who are actively looking for work as unemployed.

Barbara Bettencourt, of Pawtucket, is one of the faces behind the unemployment statistics. At 64, she lost her job with the customer-service department at Victoria & Co., which manufactures and distributes wholesale jewelry. Her last day of work was May 8. In March, the company had announced it was laying off 70 workers, citing a severe downturn in the national and world economies.

Bettencourt, who had worked at the company for 15 years, said she saw the layoff coming. “They had been downsizing all along, and I figured it was working its way towards me,” she said. “It’s a fact of business.”

She could retire on Social Security, Bettencourt said, but she would prefer to keep working for at least one more year. “I’m home now, collecting unemployment. I’ve been calling around for new jobs, but the job market is very tight,” she said.

Between April and May, the state recorded job losses in nearly every economic sector — including health care, normally considered an area of growth, which dropped 100 jobs. Government lost 600 jobs, largely because temporary workers hired for the 2010 U.S. Census had completed their work.

Powell said a 1,100-job loss was an improvement over the months between September and March, when the state was losing as many as 3,200 jobs a month. “Maybe this means job loss is slowing, but obviously we want to see job gain,” she said.

Two glimmers of hope could be found in construction, which gained 300 jobs, and accommodation and food services, which added 500 jobs. Some of those jobs ended up at a Chelo’s Hometown Bar & Grille. The 10-restaurant chain, which has about 800 employees, hired 68 people in May and plans to hire 50 more in June. Bob Crowley, vice president of operations, said about half the new hires are replacing people who have left and half represent an expansion of the work force.














Anonymous said:
Must be management, DD, or HR. The maintenance folks at Amgen are top notch (of course there are a few exceptions) and unfortunately they are all scared as hell to make mistakes. The only thing DD and company are accomplishing by their "first pass quality" (which means your fired if you make a mistake) is make anything the mechanics perform take twice as long. Granted safety is the number one concern but keeping everyone scared is not the way to do it......unless you are looking for attrition.... which is the case. So here is what you do; check, double check, triple check, have it verified , double verified, then have it triple verified by one of those manufactuiring folks, then check it again. DD great concept, maybe someone should create a CI to see how much money you are costing the company with your "management skills".

The fact is ARI is top heavy in management, DD and the majority of incompetant managers should be the first to go, ARI would not miss a beat.
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Anonymous said:
Getting worse in

R.I. as unemployment rate tops 12 percent.

07:40 AM EDT on Friday, June 19, 2009

By Andy Smith

Journal Staff Writer

Rhode Island’s unemployment rate jumped sharply to 12.1 percent in May, up from 11.1 percent in April, according to a report issued Friday by the state Department of Labor and Training. The number of jobless Rhode Islanders increased by 5,800, to 68,500.

Related links
Unemployed spending less time on hold

Reporter's query: Did you lose your job in May?
It’s the highest unemployment rate for the state since at least 1976, when the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping records. “I was certainly looking for a different number,” Sandra Powell, director of the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training, said in an interview.

The state shed 1,100 jobs in May, marking the 16th consecutive month of job losses in Rhode Island. Between May 2008 and May 2009, the state lost 20,700 jobs.

The national unemployment rate also rose, from 8.9 percent in April to 9.4 percent in May. Unemployment in Massachusetts grew slightly during the same period, from 8 percent in April to 8.2 percent in May.

Economists who had projected Rhode Island unemployment would peak at about 12 percent are now revising their estimates upward.

In early May, Andres Carbacho-Burgos, of Moody’s Economy.com, predicted that Rhode Island’s jobless rate would reach a high of 12.3 percent in 2010. On Wednesday, even before the latest Rhode Island figures were released, Carbacho-Burgos said it was more likely the rate would top out at 12.7 percent in the second quarter of 2010. He predicted it would take until 2014 before the state’s jobless rate shrank to the levels of late 2007 and early 2008, when the unemployment rate was between 6 percent and 6.5 percent.

Carbacho-Burgos said Moody’s had revised its estimates upward for the whole country, not just Rhode Island, and that the U.S. unemployment rate will top 10 percent. “Job loss is not abating as fast as we thought,” he said.

Despite the rise in U.S. unemployment, economists are still predicting the start of a national economic recovery later this year. There was some encouraging news Thursday when the Labor Department reported that the total number of people on unemployment insurance fell for the first time since early January, dropping 148,000, the largest decline in more than seven years.

Leonard Lardaro, professor of economics at the University of Rhode Island, said he had thought Rhode Island’s jobless rate would taper off somewhere between 12 percent and 12.5 percent. Now, he said, he wouldn’t rule out 13 percent.

He said employment is one of the last areas in an economy to show improvement, what economists call a lagging indicator. “It shows where we’ve been, not where we’re going. It’s like driving a car using nothing but the rear-view mirror,” he said.

That’s because business are reluctant to hire additional workers until they’re convinced that an economic recovery is actually under way.

In past recessions, Lardaro said, growth in manufacturing and construction brought the state out of the economic doldrums. But now that’s changed. “What are the engines of growth in Rhode Island now? Tourism, health care, nonprofits,” he said. “They will generate a recovery whose speed isn’t going to be giving anybody whiplash.”

Powell, the state labor director, said the total Rhode Island labor force, which includes both employed and unemployed, rose from 563,400 in April to 566,100 in May, a gain of 2,700. She said that’s an encouraging sign if it means more people are looking for work, as opposed to opting out of the job hunt altogether. But it also contributes to a rise in the unemployment rate, since the government only counts people who are actively looking for work as unemployed.

Barbara Bettencourt, of Pawtucket, is one of the faces behind the unemployment statistics. At 64, she lost her job with the customer-service department at Victoria & Co., which manufactures and distributes wholesale jewelry. Her last day of work was May 8. In March, the company had announced it was laying off 70 workers, citing a severe downturn in the national and world economies.

Bettencourt, who had worked at the company for 15 years, said she saw the layoff coming. “They had been downsizing all along, and I figured it was working its way towards me,” she said. “It’s a fact of business.”

She could retire on Social Security, Bettencourt said, but she would prefer to keep working for at least one more year. “I’m home now, collecting unemployment. I’ve been calling around for new jobs, but the job market is very tight,” she said.

Between April and May, the state recorded job losses in nearly every economic sector — including health care, normally considered an area of growth, which dropped 100 jobs. Government lost 600 jobs, largely because temporary workers hired for the 2010 U.S. Census had completed their work.

Powell said a 1,100-job loss was an improvement over the months between September and March, when the state was losing as many as 3,200 jobs a month. “Maybe this means job loss is slowing, but obviously we want to see job gain,” she said.

Two glimmers of hope could be found in construction, which gained 300 jobs, and accommodation and food services, which added 500 jobs. Some of those jobs ended up at a Chelo’s Hometown Bar & Grille. The 10-restaurant chain, which has about 800 employees, hired 68 people in May and plans to hire 50 more in June. Bob Crowley, vice president of operations, said about half the new hires are replacing people who have left and half represent an expansion of the work force.
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I can’t believe that management or so called managers (nothing more than glorified supervisors) would create an environment like this in this economy glad I not working there any more life is good without Amgen
 






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Anonymous said:
Getting worse in

R.I. as unemployment rate tops 12 percent.

07:40 AM EDT on Friday, June 19, 2009

By Andy Smith

Journal Staff Writer

Rhode Island’s unemployment rate jumped sharply to 12.1 percent in May, up from 11.1 percent in April, according to a report issued Friday by the state Department of Labor and Training. The number of jobless Rhode Islanders increased by 5,800, to 68,500.

Related links
Unemployed spending less time on hold

Reporter's query: Did you lose your job in May?
It’s the highest unemployment rate for the state since at least 1976, when the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping records. “I was certainly looking for a different number,” Sandra Powell, director of the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training, said in an interview.

The state shed 1,100 jobs in May, marking the 16th consecutive month of job losses in Rhode Island. Between May 2008 and May 2009, the state lost 20,700 jobs.

The national unemployment rate also rose, from 8.9 percent in April to 9.4 percent in May. Unemployment in Massachusetts grew slightly during the same period, from 8 percent in April to 8.2 percent in May.

Economists who had projected Rhode Island unemployment would peak at about 12 percent are now revising their estimates upward.

In early May, Andres Carbacho-Burgos, of Moody’s Economy.com, predicted that Rhode Island’s jobless rate would reach a high of 12.3 percent in 2010. On Wednesday, even before the latest Rhode Island figures were released, Carbacho-Burgos said it was more likely the rate would top out at 12.7 percent in the second quarter of 2010. He predicted it would take until 2014 before the state’s jobless rate shrank to the levels of late 2007 and early 2008, when the unemployment rate was between 6 percent and 6.5 percent.

Carbacho-Burgos said Moody’s had revised its estimates upward for the whole country, not just Rhode Island, and that the U.S. unemployment rate will top 10 percent. “Job loss is not abating as fast as we thought,” he said.

Despite the rise in U.S. unemployment, economists are still predicting the start of a national economic recovery later this year. There was some encouraging news Thursday when the Labor Department reported that the total number of people on unemployment insurance fell for the first time since early January, dropping 148,000, the largest decline in more than seven years.

Leonard Lardaro, professor of economics at the University of Rhode Island, said he had thought Rhode Island’s jobless rate would taper off somewhere between 12 percent and 12.5 percent. Now, he said, he wouldn’t rule out 13 percent.

He said employment is one of the last areas in an economy to show improvement, what economists call a lagging indicator. “It shows where we’ve been, not where we’re going. It’s like driving a car using nothing but the rear-view mirror,” he said.

That’s because business are reluctant to hire additional workers until they’re convinced that an economic recovery is actually under way.

In past recessions, Lardaro said, growth in manufacturing and construction brought the state out of the economic doldrums. But now that’s changed. “What are the engines of growth in Rhode Island now? Tourism, health care, nonprofits,” he said. “They will generate a recovery whose speed isn’t going to be giving anybody whiplash.”

Powell, the state labor director, said the total Rhode Island labor force, which includes both employed and unemployed, rose from 563,400 in April to 566,100 in May, a gain of 2,700. She said that’s an encouraging sign if it means more people are looking for work, as opposed to opting out of the job hunt altogether. But it also contributes to a rise in the unemployment rate, since the government only counts people who are actively looking for work as unemployed.

Barbara Bettencourt, of Pawtucket, is one of the faces behind the unemployment statistics. At 64, she lost her job with the customer-service department at Victoria & Co., which manufactures and distributes wholesale jewelry. Her last day of work was May 8. In March, the company had announced it was laying off 70 workers, citing a severe downturn in the national and world economies.

Bettencourt, who had worked at the company for 15 years, said she saw the layoff coming. “They had been downsizing all along, and I figured it was working its way towards me,” she said. “It’s a fact of business.”

She could retire on Social Security, Bettencourt said, but she would prefer to keep working for at least one more year. “I’m home now, collecting unemployment. I’ve been calling around for new jobs, but the job market is very tight,” she said.

Between April and May, the state recorded job losses in nearly every economic sector — including health care, normally considered an area of growth, which dropped 100 jobs. Government lost 600 jobs, largely because temporary workers hired for the 2010 U.S. Census had completed their work.

Powell said a 1,100-job loss was an improvement over the months between September and March, when the state was losing as many as 3,200 jobs a month. “Maybe this means job loss is slowing, but obviously we want to see job gain,” she said.

Two glimmers of hope could be found in construction, which gained 300 jobs, and accommodation and food services, which added 500 jobs. Some of those jobs ended up at a Chelo’s Hometown Bar & Grille. The 10-restaurant chain, which has about 800 employees, hired 68 people in May and plans to hire 50 more in June. Bob Crowley, vice president of operations, said about half the new hires are replacing people who have left and half represent an expansion of the work force.
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Anonymous said:
Lets look at the recent firings in the past eight months almost all of them were unjust. We had managers who choose to look away at some employees and terminate others for their own self satisfaction. If that is the type of management we have with no consideration of people with families and shape of the economy and current job market especially in RI i can see why we are in serious trouble. Is this what we have become where self preservation is more important than the devistation of job losses to co workers and their families. It's really sad amgen breeds these type of people.
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Not only have we seen managers get people fired we have also had co workers assist managers in terminating others because of personal issues. ARI is a very strange place values mean nothing.
 
























Amgen should fire that bastard BL instead of letting him off with a transfer to Cambridge.
He is a cancer to the company maybe folks there will have the balls to do so unlike the spineless management team at ARI. Screw you BL!!!!!!!!
 


















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