Connect Layoffs Today

[anonymous]

Both Tampa and Chicago are closed down. The connect phone numbers are now disconnected. I went by the Tampa site where I was working at and everything is being moved out. There are trucks there now loading up the desks, etc. I talked to one of the movers in the parking lot and the space has allready been leased out to someone else. Our name has been taken down off the directory by the elevator. That was quick.

I imagine that the same is going on at the abandoned Target store site in Chicago.

While I was working at connect I heard so many stories about how staff was assaulted, robbed, and their cars all stolen at that Chicago site. It was in the south side of Chicago in a getto area where there were lots of gangs. At least in Tampa we were in a nice .modern building with windows. We had palm trees in the parking lot. That abandoned windowless Target store in that getto hood neighborhood must have been depressing!.

Well I guess this chapter of my work life is over.

HAHAHH. "getto area where there are lots of gangs". How typical of my Pfizer colleagues.

 

[anonymous]

Clearly you have no clue. Do you even work here? The Illinois site was in Lake Forest,one of the most affluent suburbs of Chicago, nowhere near the south side of the city. And the building is still open!

 

[anonymous]

Can someone that’s not a troll actually tell me what the deal is with the Pfizer facility in Chicago I used to work at the Lake Forest campus for many years and when I left Pfizer I heard about a call center on the south side on 87th Street in the Chatham neighborhood that was supposed to be where the Discover credit card company built a office that ended up being leased by Pfizer. Can anyone actually confirm if Pfizer ever occupied that space?

 

[anonymous]

What a disaster of an experiment. Who ever thought entry level phone dialers were going to get access to decision makers and influence scripts?

This “experiment” should be a business school case study, or a class, titled “Arroagance and Ignorance in the Corporate World.” Senior Leaders were looking for ZERO feedback from the field on how this would play out. I’m actually surprised that they pulled the plug this quickly.

 

[anonymous]

I wonder How successful this concept was during Covid when reps stayed home and made calls
My guess is if a rep is being honest they would say it was a big failure.
Yet they roll out connect!

 

[anonymous]

I wonder How successful this concept was during Covid when reps stayed home and made calls
My guess is if a rep is being honest they would say it was a big failure.
Yet they roll out connect!

This company was delusional enough to thing that Covid would last forever.

 

[anonymous]

This company was delusional enough to thing that Covid would last forever.

Bogus efficacy per RT-PCR

 

[anonymous]

This is exactly right. A dumb idea and the people who implemented it patted themselves on the back for it as if they’d discovered a new path to success. Now those same people who were enriched with taxpayer dollar’s when the stock hit 60 are laying people off right before Christmas. And I don’t care if they give them two months pay and COBRA after that. It still sucks to get this news at Christmas.

The way leadership at this company treats people is unconscionable. They sit around telling everyone they saved the world with a vaccine they didn’t develop, spend those taxpayer dollars buying Seagen in a desperate attempt to become relevant in oncology, and then upend people’s lives at the worst possible time of year.

Noboby is owed a job. Pfizer is a corporation not a charity. But treating people with dignity doesn’t cost anything. There is absolutely no difference to the bottom line in waiting 3 weeks to lay people off.

The leadership of this company as well as the BoD will never get this company out of its current mess. They all need to go.

“Noboby is owed a job. Pfizer is a corporation not a charity. But treating people with dignity doesn’t cost anything. There is absolutely no difference to the bottom line in waiting 3 weeks to lay people off.”

The quote above explains how decisions get made in New York. The decisions are all about shareholder value, which, in case you haven’t noticed, is flat. So, if you can’t grow the top line, you cut…cut…cut. The stock price reflects confidence, or lack thereof, in Senior Leaders and the overall growth potential of the company. The company lays people off sometimes, just because it’s Tuesday, and “looks strategic or decisive.”

This is no way to treat people…but, you should know by now that this is what you signed up for.

 

[anonymous]

LOL Tampa isn’t shut and neither is Lake Forest. Which isn’t in South Chicago. They also only shut down the Pfizer Connect divisions that were ineffective. They kept the Pfizer Connect divisions that were actually speaking with customers on the phone.

what? Yea I’m sure the connect crew was “speaking with customers”. That group was run by a fat smelly sweaty moron who was picked up from Comcast that ran their customer service. If anyone exists from that group still, time to let them go. It was AW baby and we see where that got her.

 

[anonymous]

Merry Christmas HSR's! Connect Vaccines and Connect IM laid off today. Not sure about Connect ONC and RD. This is a safe space - let it out.

This and many other Pfizer ideas just upper management job justification. The money they waste on these stupid ideas from their Wharton hires is embarrassing!