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Anonymous said:
MDx didn't produce. These layoffs are justified. Lucky you were paid anything on the way out given the lack of performance.
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Well, I know a lot of folks who produced for years. But when management doesn't feel they need to compete for national contracts, refuse to respond to competitive threats, or do not bring new products to market, there's only so much somebody in the field can do.

But most of those folks (in management) either left with wonderful parting gifts or are still rewarded for their incompetence. The guy (or gal) in the field, dealing with customers all day, be damned.

GE SUCKS!
 




I can understand the sting of a layoff having been through one myself.
I have been with MDx for a while now and through the good and the bad (and there has been plenty of bad), the one thing that has kept me there was the people - there was a higher level of respect and decency than at other jobs I had been at.

It is disheartening to see the level of bashing of those in management, who, I know for a fact, did not take any of these decisions lightly, nor continue to do so.

I think it would serve this post much better to exhibit the type of fortitude and respect that we have always collectively said differentiates us from other organizations...either that or do not post.

Just a suggestion.
 




Anonymous said:
I can understand the sting of a layoff having been through one myself.
I have been with MDx for a while now and through the good and the bad (and there has been plenty of bad), the one thing that has kept me there was the people - there was a higher level of respect and decency than at other jobs I had been at.

It is disheartening to see the level of bashing of those in management, who, I know for a fact, did not take any of these decisions lightly, nor continue to do so.

I think it would serve this post much better to exhibit the type of fortitude and respect that we have always collectively said differentiates us from other organizations...either that or do not post.

Just a suggestion.
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Are you kidding me? Differentiates us from other organizations??? Like who? How? Great, it’s better than your sample dropper job you came from in Big Pharma? Good for you…

Management didn’t take these decisions lightly? You’re right; I don’t think they thought about it at all, lightly or otherwise! You have reps with tenure, successful track records, and upwardly mobile skill sets that were let go and you have meatheads who are HR nightmares who were retained. All the while HR nor “management” has been transparent and/or offered up the parameters of the selection process. Clearly it wasn’t numbers, tenure, performance reviews, or any combination thereof.

So to say any of our “leaders” deserve any modicum of decorum is laughable and my guess is you are either an HR/PR person or a “manager” trying to cleanse their conscience.

Real leaders would have transparently laid out the parameters of the “re-org” well before the conference call. There would have been an objective component, or a matrix or whatever you want to call it, that was known to everyone well in advance, ie, physical location, sales number and rankings averaged out over a certain time parameter, tenure, etc. There could have been interviews to allow people to compete for positions locally. Those who were “unaffected” were subjectively picked through nothing more than cronyism. I too have been through layoffs and you are wrong. The “sting” of this layoff is not the loss of a job, to be quite frank GE’s grossly underpays and this will be the needed push for talented people to get far better jobs making more money. What “stings” is the unscrupulous way “management” went about it, and the lack of accountability and transparency they have displayed. That is what you should be disheartened about…

My suggestion to you would be to stop mainlining the GEHC Kool-Aid, you just might gain some perspective.
 




I am no fan of GE...so no need to speculate who I am or what my motive is.
I guarantee you that I am not anyone you might guess -just trying to be professional here and I guarantee you that I am not protecting anyone, least myself.

In fact, I couldn't agree more that this just might be the push to provide talented, experienced valuable people to find the job that fits them better and recognizes them for it.

Good luck to all.
 




Rumor I'm hearing is that the nuclear pharmacies will be sold or spun off. GE will continue to market nuclear products much like Coviden (Mallinckrodt) does since they sold their pharmacies to Triad.

As for the contrast media side of the business, look for continued retrenching to a basically telemarketing operation with a skeleton sales force (of maybe 24-48 people) to cover very large territories, look for this in early 2012.

As GE continues to gut the medical diagnostics business ...
 




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