Life Science Artwork Project

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http://www.indystar.com/article/201...nce-art?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|IndyStar.com

"In a bid to reveal its scientific inner self and energize its employees, Eli Lilly and Co. plans to adorn its Downtown headquarters campus with life-science-themed sculptures and other artwork, while adding a fitness center, walking trails, an amphitheater and even a courtyard fire pit.

The proposed improvements, slated to be done over the next two years at a not-yet-calculated cost that will run into the millions of dollars, will be submitted today to the Department of Metropolitan Development for its approval."

WHAT EMPLOYEES? If this wasn't so pathetic it would be humorous. I'm glad my 18 years of loyal service went down the drain for something really important. Maybe when LLY is finally run into the ground this will stand as a memorial park to greed and make a wonderful tent city for the displaced and homeless.
 






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http://www.indystar.com/article/201...nce-art?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|IndyStar.com

"In a bid to reveal its scientific inner self and energize its employees, Eli Lilly and Co. plans to adorn its Downtown headquarters campus with life-science-themed sculptures and other artwork, while adding a fitness center, walking trails, an amphitheater and even a courtyard fire pit.

The proposed improvements, slated to be done over the next two years at a not-yet-calculated cost that will run into the millions of dollars, will be submitted today to the Department of Metropolitan Development for its approval."

WHAT EMPLOYEES? If this wasn't so pathetic it would be humorous. I'm glad my 18 years of loyal service went down the drain for something really important. Maybe when LLY is finally run into the ground this will stand as a memorial park to greed and make a wonderful tent city for the displaced and homeless.
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You raise a good point. Why not put the walking trails along the White River, so that the tent dwellers can panhandle from overpaid corporate center dry-cleaned suits?
 






How about huge green dollar signs on every street corner. You could hang flower planters from them. I would think that vibrant pinks and yellows would be perfect against a green background.

Alternatively, how about skeletons and corpses, like what you see when you cross the border into Tijuana. Pretty scary. Yes, I think this company does a better job scaring away qualified people than attracting or educating them. That is for sure.
 






Anonymous said:
http://www.indystar.com/article/201...nce-art?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|IndyStar.com

"In a bid to reveal its scientific inner self and energize its employees, Eli Lilly and Co. plans to adorn its Downtown headquarters campus with life-science-themed sculptures and other artwork, while adding a fitness center, walking trails, an amphitheater and even a courtyard fire pit.

The proposed improvements, slated to be done over the next two years at a not-yet-calculated cost that will run into the millions of dollars, will be submitted today to the Department of Metropolitan Development for its approval."

WHAT EMPLOYEES? If this wasn't so pathetic it would be humorous. I'm glad my 18 years of loyal service went down the drain for something really important. Maybe when LLY is finally run into the ground this will stand as a memorial park to greed and make a wonderful tent city for the displaced and homeless.
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Just read the honest comments following the article. The project has failed already. We have failed to win the hearts and minds. Lilly is perceived as a big sucking sound, getting tax credits off the backs of hardworking Indiana tax payers in exchange for being treated like cattle. Why not move the corporate center to Wall Street?
 






behold the idiocy

This is yet another blazing example of the self-indulgent IDIOCY of King Ludwig Lechleiter, IV of LillyVaria. Why not have headstone markers for all who perished due to side-effects, off-label uses, etc. of lillie's fine toxins.
 






King Johnny's Idiocy

We must liken JCL to the mid-19th century "child king" Ludwig II, who ascended to the Bavarian throne at age 18. Ludwig had such grandiose ideas of himself and such narcissism that he bankrupted the public treasury with projects such as building a replica of the Palace of Versailles, down to the Hall of Mirrors. Likewise, we have in JCL essentially a highly destructive child CEO, someone who has never fully molted and grown into an adult. He's acting as though he is still a teenager trying to get even with the parents who gave him a sense of Appalachian self-entitlement at the expense of logic, rationality and the people for whom his position demands fiduciary responsibility. QED: KingJohn £udwig£eiter The Mad of Lillyvaria
 






When ever I am asked my opinion about art, naturally I have the academic response: What will folks be thinking about this in 100 years? 200 years? 1000 years? 5000 years?

Upon reading the comments following the IndyStar article, it's clear that even Eli Lilly himself, whose posthumous spirit is alive in the hearts and minds of many warm bodies in Indianapolis, would have frowned upon this extravagance in a time of mass layoffs.

If this project has ill regard in the past, one can only dread how it's regarded in the future. One can only respect the "walking trails" which are a much better treatment and preventative for Diabetes. But at what price? Surely, a more noble management philosophy would be so pure and inspiring as raise retirees from their armchairs and canned beverages to voluntarily construct trails, and to maintain them well into the future.

You really can't buy respect in this world, especially by using paid, salaried employees to pose as "volunteers" for community and cultural development. Paid volunteer = Classic Lilly oxymoron
 






Thank you wise ones as you fire 5500 employees while financing a multimillion dollar art project near the opulent palatial Corporate Center in Indianapolis.... towering, shiny polished marble and granite, ascending to dizzying height in Ivory Tower splendor as intoxicated executives fumble with fat short fingers on their gold plated keyboards, sacrificing herd after herd of highly trained staff to finance their next pet project.
 






I am JohnCL. I come to you from the pure, pristine Appalachian pastures by way of Harvard. I come bearing ARTWERKS, Veritas et Integrité. My Innovation and multiple chin-folds give you a world of pleasure and bliss. I have never laid off a valued employee ever. I am of Honor and Integrity. Always. I am for You.
 












Here is an idea: Remember those old McDonalds Golden Arches, with the red panel displaying how many billions of hamburgers have been sold?

How about a huge Lilly logo, with a counter beneath it, detailing how many tens of thousands of employees have been let go after being promised BY HR that they would have life-long job security?

Are there any class action lawsuits pending on that yet? I would sign up.
 






Anonymous said:
Here is an idea: Remember those old McDonalds Golden Arches, with the red panel displaying how many billions of hamburgers have been sold?

How about a huge Lilly logo, with a counter beneath it, detailing how many tens of thousands of employees have been let go after being promised BY HR that they would have life-long job security?

Are there any class action lawsuits pending on that yet? I would sign up.
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add a tote board to tally the record fines and litigation payouts. Maybe count the expired patents too.
 




































$pinTa$tic!

MARVEL at how this year's Shareholder report should is a wretch-inducing work of fiction and mendacity spinning the coming catastrophe into something only the mentally ill would believe. The cover is, predictably, a lab coat wearing So. Asian woman, staring intently at colored water and dry ice in a CLOSED volumetric flask. Above her, a thought-bubble will read: "I WORK FOR THE ASS OF THE WORLD" translated into 27 languages...
 












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