How's my 5 Star Pipeline?

[Anonymous]

Hi
Well I've been busy spinning off another company so wanted to get an update on how you are taking care of my SP 5 Star Pipeline. Now that your sales and marketing teams have successfully launched asenapine, boceprevir, suggamadex, golimumab, vicriviroc, and vorapaxar you finally see what a bargain SP was!

Fred

 

[Anonymous]

Hi
Well I've been busy spinning off another company so wanted to get an update on how you are taking care of my SP 5 Star Pipeline. Now that your sales and marketing teams have successfully launched asenapine, boceprevir, suggamadex, golimumab, vicriviroc, and vorapaxar you finally see what a bargain SP was!

Fred

Don't blame Fred, he was simply doing what he does best - a very shrewd businessman and genius salesman. Instead blame the suckers who didn't do their due diligence before making this purchase, (or reverse merger, cough, wink).

 

[Anonymous]

And don't forget the 50,000 employees that the miserable Merck management can lay off over three years in order to keep the bottom line from making Wall Street ask more questions. Merck management needed this merger at any cost cuz the writing was on the wall for them if they simply did nothing. All smoke and mirrors. Just like Fred as well.

 

[Anonymous]

And don't forget the 50,000 employees that the miserable Merck management can lay off over three years in order to keep the bottom line from making Wall Street ask more questions. Merck management needed this merger at any cost cuz the writing was on the wall for them if they simply did nothing. All smoke and mirrors. Just like Fred as well.

The Sp merger was all about buying SP's consumer products line and creating an impetus to further reduce employees. The chaos of the merger was a great way to hide the carnage. It has ben much worse than any of you can imagine. That's why the comapny no onger in any way releases headcount numbers. They're hiding it as best they can and realignments and the like help them hide the truth. As if morale could be any lower.

 

[Anonymous]

The Sp merger was all about buying SP's consumer products line and creating an impetus to further reduce employees. The chaos of the merger was a great way to hide the carnage. It has ben much worse than any of you can imagine. That's why the comapny no onger in any way releases headcount numbers. They're hiding it as best they can and realignments and the like help them hide the truth. As if morale could be any lower.

If you do the math, there has been a combination of 35,000 overt "layoffs", vacant positions not filled and contractor position eliminations since (just prior) to the merger.

 

[Anonymous]

The Sp merger was all about buying SP's consumer products line and creating an impetus to further reduce employees. The chaos of the merger was a great way to hide the carnage. It has ben much worse than any of you can imagine. That's why the comapny no onger in any way releases headcount numbers. They're hiding it as best they can and realignments and the like help them hide the truth. As if morale could be any lower.

What a bunch of freeloaders! You have to understand, this is free market capitalism. No one promised you lifetime job. This is nothing more than constructive deconstruction. The new opportunities that will come from these types of restructuring create new opportunities.
Just think of how many new jobs will be created by the contractors when we open up the sales force!

You should have done your due diligence before coming on board~



Mitt

 

[Anonymous]

Good points. But just like Merck (and the rest of the big pharma) feels the need to optimize its payback by being super-flexible in its labor source and activity location, eventually, scientists (everywhere in the world) will realize that the return on an investment in knowledge and skill is illusory. Chemists and chemical engineers will join art history majors as those that have been duped into paying too much to get a degree but without any career prospects to return on that investment. Then Merck will see how well lawyers, finance gurus, and PowerPoint experts can cobble up a pipeline.

 

[Anonymous]

The Sp merger was all about buying SP's consumer products line and creating an impetus to further reduce employees. The chaos of the merger was a great way to hide the carnage. It has ben much worse than any of you can imagine. That's why the comapny no onger in any way releases headcount numbers. They're hiding it as best they can and realignments and the like help them hide the truth. As if morale could be any lower.

So how will they spin selling MCC to GSK?