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Merck seeks to reinvent R&D unit: WSJ

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Anonymous said:
Bring in Roy V! Clean house in middle management. The inexperienced leaders will need to step aside. These people wound not know innovation if on the doorstep with a user manual and video.

Internal war behind walls....... We will never deliver a pipeline.

Roger? Rupert? Help......
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Funny. Hard to innovate without people. Neuro seems happy good mgt and freedom
 






Anonymous said:
Says it all! If you speak up, risk being targeted and nothing happens (pay attention Roger and Rupert). More work to be done at the Ex and VP levels. Remove the inadequacy. BMW line gave a laugh but not the only needed change.
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You said it! Speak up to improve results in a bullet to the cranium. This must change. How far will MRL sink before recovery? First step......can the micromanagers with little experience.

And we thought rock bottom was last year. Guess again
 






Anonymous said:
STILL at WP?

Management 101: job says pharmacology know pharmacology. If job says neuroscience know neuroscience. Let's put a biologist in charge of chemistry next. Put the head of marketing in charge of vaccines?

Classic example of the wrong people doing the wrong job. Good luck WP. Happy I moved on to compete with you. Our departments actually hire department heads with appropriate background. All with drug discovery record.
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RV and team host meetings with small groups. Some people complain about the wrong things. Morale low? Solve-it! Change some leadership. This is how you motivate the scientists. And put scientists with knowledge and integrity in charge. Enough of the "yes sir/ma'am".
 






MRL needs to be cleaned from top to bottom. So many people are completely demoralized and really just showing up for pay checks. No more cutting edge science, no more pushing for publication and advancing the science, no more innovation regardless if the slogans and initiatives. The powers that be killed research here as we knew it. Started with BRGOS and continued with the ever changing initiatives and strategies and layoffs. This place needs to be repopulated with some people that have worked on the outside and know what it takes to get drugs discovered. No one left here that has a clue.
 






Anonymous said:
MRL needs to be cleaned from top to bottom. So many people are completely demoralized and really just showing up for pay checks. No more cutting edge science, no more pushing for publication and advancing the science, no more innovation regardless if the slogans and initiatives. The powers that be killed research here as we knew it. Started with BRGOS and continued with the ever changing initiatives and strategies and layoffs. This place needs to be repopulated with some people that have worked on the outside and know what it takes to get drugs discovered. No one left here that has a clue.
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Most agree. Management needs such cleaning. Few have delivered to market, some not clue why they are here destroying. Merger killed us, different cultures and hostile. Who knew the Brits could be so different when it comes to making drugs?

Roger, get out your gloves some late spring cleaning needs to be done
 






Anonymous said:
Why is this person still here? Does this person know few respect and enjoy working with him or her? Speaking up will have consequences....

Merck has become a joke.
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She is here because she says yes sir! Want to 5S, sure! Not able to develop a drug, keeps people in line with fear, can not trust. Agree few respect
 






Anonymous said:
No accountability, no oversight. For all the process and micro managing the top is oblivious to the poor state of WP. Morale down because employees stripped of respect, over worked and everyone falls in line due to constant threat of targeting.
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True, my friend.

The processors are still around killing the productivity. When will thus change? Hello Rupert, it's a call for you.
 












Anonymous said:
please deposit feedback into the small black suggestion containers that have been distributed too everyone's desks
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This place must remain stressful. If this was a good place to work what do you think it would do too my social life. You should think about others for a change.


Love always
Don't change
Your good friend

Halo
 






Anonymous said:
This place must remain stressful. If this was a good place to work what do you think it would do too my social life. You should think about others for a change.


Love always
Don't change
Your good friend

Halo
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always known as poindexter. Lets not let anything interfere with that little pecker. You can have the retreads.
 












Top talent in R&D left years ago. All that is left is the cogs that fit into the assembly line. Innovation was escorted out a few years ago along with anyone that didn't fit the mold. It's become a sad place to be, especially in WP.
 
























Anonymous said:
MRL needs to be cleaned from top to bottom. So many people are completely demoralized and really just showing up for pay checks. No more cutting edge science, no more pushing for publication and advancing the science, no more innovation regardless if the slogans and initiatives. The powers that be killed research here as we knew it. Started with BRGOS and continued with the ever changing initiatives and strategies and layoffs. This place needs to be repopulated with some people that have worked on the outside and know what it takes to get drugs discovered. No one left here that has a clue.
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Few have a clue - in agreement. The majority left and those making the cuts in middle management are just buying time. At WP only one ED with a drug to market experience, others wanna be. Politics at this level are incredibly high. Yes sir, is the way to go now for speaking up gets you in trouble. Send me back on the next plane.
 












Anonymous said:
STILL at WP?

Management 101: job says pharmacology know pharmacology. If job says neuroscience know neuroscience. Let's put a biologist in charge of chemistry next. Put the head of marketing in charge of vaccines?

Classic example of the wrong people doing the wrong job. Good luck WP. Happy I moved on to compete with you. Our departments actually hire department heads with appropriate background. All with drug discovery record.
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No change yet. Entertaining to watch a good department rot from the top down. Can't say anything, just the way it is. Sad, sad, sad.

Rupert can't you do something? No discovery record, kisses up, shallow scientific record, limited vision, oh and clean out specialist.
 






Anonymous said:
No change yet. Entertaining to watch a good department rot from the top down. Can't say anything, just the way it is. Sad, sad, sad.

Rupert can't you do something? No discovery record, kisses up, shallow scientific record, limited vision, oh and clean out specialist.
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Sounds like you were put in your place by this leader in question and have come running to the internet message boards with your tail between your legs to see if uncle Rupert could make it all better.

I heard Rupert and Roger worked out a deal with J&J for some NO MORE TEARS Baby Shampoo just for you. You can find it in the company store next to the A&D ointment. We get cheap shampoo to help people like you to do their almost-outsourced job, and we promise to keep you away from J&J R&D. Win-win!!
 






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