Massive Ethicon layoffs on Monday

[Anonymous]

To follow last week's layoffs at Mentor.

 

[Anonymous]

Is anyone really surprised by this? They will have full line reps rather than 300+ reps in the field. Good call sending that email out at 7pm...

 

[Anonymous]

How many were laid off at Mentor?

 

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know this for sure? Are they merging territories or getting rid of CSR's or HSR's?

 

[Anonymous]

Is anyone really surprised by this? They will have full line reps rather than 300+ reps in the field. Good call sending that email out at 7pm...

How do you know this? Any more details you can share?

 

[Anonymous]

Mentor had ninety something laid off last week

 

[Anonymous]

Typical JNJ. One day you feel like this place is the greatest, the next they are blowing people out. Sorry for the folks who lost jobs. This place is a sham, and its all about the name JNJ and stock price.

 

[Anonymous]

How do you know this? Any more details you can share?

If you got an email on Friday saying to stay home and wait for the phone to ring...you're getting laid off

 

[Anonymous]

So some got an email to go out in the field and some got one to stay home?

 

[Anonymous]

So some got an email to go out in the field and some got one to stay home?

I thought everyone got the same email that said to conduct business as usual and just be on the look out for an outlook meeting request? Did people really get an email to stay home???

 

[Anonymous]

I am pretty sure everyone got the same email that said conduct business as usual but be on the lookout for a meeting request through outlook. Why would they even put that in there?? If they were to send out Outlook request Friday or through the weekend, we would then be able to see who is in each group on the request. Usually, these request are by division or region. If this was the case again, why wouldn't we have gotten the request over the weekend and know when this call is coming and who it is with?
It is VERY unusal. Managers however were not on the email so of course they know what is going on. Can someone please say what they know!!???

 

[Anonymous]

I am pretty sure everyone got the same email that said conduct business as usual but be on the lookout for a meeting request through outlook. Why would they even put that in there?? If they were to send out Outlook request Friday or through the weekend, we would then be able to see who is in each group on the request. Usually, these request are by division or region. If this was the case again, why wouldn't we have gotten the request over the weekend and know when this call is coming and who it is with?
It is VERY unusal. Managers however were not on the email so of course they know what is going on. Can someone please say what they know!!???

This is what pisses me off. You know that the managers are aware of who is out and they know what is going on. They may not have known for too long but I bet they found out recently and could have done the right thing and talked to the reps.

 

[Anonymous]

does anyone remember that feedback we did on our counterparts a few weeks ago? We have never done that before and there was a deadline within a week to have it complete. The following week was manager meetings in Jersey. Coincidence...I think not. My guess is that they used this feedback to determine where a full line could take the role as a stand alone rep. This is purely speculation at this point but I have worked here a for a long time and I have never been asked for feedback within three days.
Thoughts??

 

[Anonymous]

Yes agree the rep feedback was a setup... also interesting evia is down for emergency they are probably setting up the territory alignments...

 

[Anonymous]

Well, I can tell you that, not every rep was asked to provide feedback on their colleagues! None of the HSR's or CSR's that I've reached out to had to do it. I'm on the West Coast.

 

[Anonymous]

Come on managers, speak up and fill us in.

 

[Anonymous]

Come on managers, speak up and fill us in.

Like that's going to happen! My manager is not an advocate for us.

 

[Anonymous]

So who all had to complete the feedback? Some endo reps were asked to do this on their counterparts at Ethicon.

 

[Anonymous]

Rumor is layoffs are based on territory profitability.

 

[Anonymous]

What kind of questions were asked about counterparts? Hopefully nobody bashed anyone.