It's the middle of June, what's happening?

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Nah...no last minute conference calls. Isn't Glamour trip in July? I don't think they would layoff people until after that...wouldn't you agree?? They could pull what they did last time and send us an email at 7pm on friday night telling us to wait for a phone call on Monday. That was an AWESOME weekend!!!
 






yep, you are correct! July 19th is the town hall in Cinci so my guess would be sometime after they make those announcements. Everything about this is horrible- I feel so bad for everyone that is having to go through this.
 






I don't know. Maybe the announcements will be before the town hall meeting. They usually have a town hall meeting after they have let a bunch of people go, then they say stuff like we are so sorry to see some of our co-workers being displaced, we love and care about them and will do everything we can to help them transition, skies are blue....
 






GP told some Ethicon (suture) reps at their meeting over the last few days that we would hear about the regional structure at OR before the July town hall conference. They are suppose to go down from 36 to 18 (something close to that) regional managers for the new restructuring. Middle management is taking the hugest hit. I heard reps won't be let go until September. This wait SUX!
 






i find it very hard to believe they are letting anyone go anytime soon. I know they said it's coming but there have been no signs just constant reminders/threats. Usually the comp plan changes in July so lets hope for that because is anyone making dough on the Ethicon side this year???!!!
 












So you guys at Ethicon thought that you were the apex of the Johnson and Johnson company, now you know that you are just like everyone else..so take it from a Johnson and Johnson survivor. Stay on as you can and take another full time job on the side. This way when one goes, you still have the other. You can not count on living on unemployment. Protect yourselves.
 


















we're kept in the dark because they know we're not going to be happy. they want to control how/when everyone leaves. I actually think it's going to be more of the directors and managers hit than the field....but that's just my thoughts.
 






I hope you're right. In Cincinnati alone, there are way too many managers/directors/admins. in each department. I would assume the other op cos are the same........maybe this time the cuts will be made to the middle managers, makes perfect sense since they all make alot of money and benefits while not doing very much. Cut 10 alone and that saves a million bucks!
I just hope we are not let down when we find out what the integration teams have come up with.........let's not forget they protect their own.
 






Overall this sucks for everyone in all of the Global Surgery Group - I get that from a business standpoint things need to be different, but it is hard on everyone knowing changes are coming but no solid communication except stress and speculation.

A LOT of people have already moved on and if they have not are looking to move on, but so far still no communication just speculation, and the digi voicemails that come from G@b& saying how awesome we are doing and thanking us for all our hard work.

Products are not "WOW"ing customers anymore, if truth be known and it is - the opposite is true...

Think of yourself as the CEO - what would you do to fix things.... on paper to get expenses down and have more money coming in usually equals layoffs and consolidation. If you are making $10 billion in sales with a company of 500 employees, how much money will you make if sales stay close to the same (assuming no growth over last year) but you now have 300 employees - on paper it looks a lot better.

Sad but true, Global Surgery Group really means profit coming from outside of the US and a downsized US workforce.
 






All so sad. The credo really doesn't mean anything in today's business, maybe that needs to be transformed as well to meet today's world.
How awesome would it be if our leaders decided to bring all the manufacturing BACK to the USA, thus creating more US jobs and possibly having better controls on quality? I for one would purchase devices made in the USA even if they didn't totally WOW me.
Unlikely, I know, given they've changed the name to "Global Surgery Group" but I can dream.....
 






How long have they been talking about change? 2 years now and nothing has really happened. A bunch of talk with nothing to show for it. "change" will probably be going on years from now.
 






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