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Strader and Metters are both gone from MRL. If you include Koblan in the mix, and maybe others, Tillyer and Kim have now eliminated everyone by whom Tillyer is threatened. They have eliminated the three people most directly responsible for the current MRL pipeline: Strader from SGP, Metters from Merck Frosst (before she proved again that people raise to the level of their incompetence), Koblan from Rahway and West Point before that, and going back a few years, Kola from Rahway, Gould from West Point. There's probably others that I have forgotten

Research is now consolidated under a group of leaders who have either (a) never succeeded in this environment - admittedly an ever-growing list, or (b) believe drug discovery is much like manufacturing: it's a process defined by a check list.
 








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Strader and Metters are both gone from MRL. If you include Koblan in the mix, and maybe others, Tillyer and Kim have now eliminated everyone by whom Tillyer is threatened. They have eliminated the three people most directly responsible for the current MRL pipeline: Strader from SGP, Metters from Merck Frosst (before she proved again that people raise to the level of their incompetence), Koblan from Rahway and West Point before that, and going back a few years, Kola from Rahway, Gould from West Point. There's probably others that I have forgotten

Research is now consolidated under a group of leaders who have either (a) never succeeded in this environment - admittedly an ever-growing list, or (b) believe drug discovery is much like manufacturing: it's a process defined by a check list.
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Those drugs from Merck Frosst have nothing to do with Kathleen. They would have discovered more drugs if she were competent!
 




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Strader and Metters are both gone from MRL. If you include Koblan in the mix, and maybe others, Tillyer and Kim have now eliminated everyone by whom Tillyer is threatened. They have eliminated the three people most directly responsible for the current MRL pipeline: Strader from SGP, Metters from Merck Frosst (before she proved again that people raise to the level of their incompetence), Koblan from Rahway and West Point before that, and going back a few years, Kola from Rahway, Gould from West Point. There's probably others that I have forgotten

Research is now consolidated under a group of leaders who have either (a) never succeeded in this environment - admittedly an ever-growing list, or (b) believe drug discovery is much like manufacturing: it's a process defined by a check list.
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The last I have heard (ca. 3 months ago) Strader was made Head of Discovery in Rahway. The British mafia owns the rest of the Discovery sites, Kenilworth, West Point and Boston. In MRL nowadays, if you are related to in some way to Kim you are good, likewise if you are British like Tillyer. Sad, sad, sad, but obvious. Reps can work hard and sell hard trying to save the new Merck, but the MRL leadership will siphon off all the wealth. Especially true now when Frazier made public that he will pour more money into it.
 




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The last I have heard (ca. 3 months ago) Strader was made Head of Discovery in Rahway. The British mafia owns the rest of the Discovery sites, Kenilworth, West Point and Boston. In MRL nowadays, if you are related to in some way to Kim you are good, likewise if you are British like Tillyer. Sad, sad, sad, but obvious. Reps can work hard and sell hard trying to save the new Merck, but the MRL leadership will siphon off all the wealth. Especially true now when Frazier made public that he will pour more money into it.
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I believe that makes 3 or 4 site heads at Rahway in ~2 years. How is it even remotely possible that Peter Kim, Rich Tillyer and the rest of executive "leadership" at MRL are competent with that kind of turnover? If I would have had that kind of turnover in my group when I was at Merck, it would have been a CLEAR and STRONG signal of extraordinarily incompetent management and leadership. Either, I could not identify and hire talent, or I couldn't manage talent, or I couldn't manage period. Extraordinary, isn't it, that those very clear HR rules don't apply to Tillyer, Kim, Ford-Hutchinson (is he still there??) and others. Perhaps Ken Frazier and the board do not believe that, or never look at Peter's management skills.
 




Dumping money into the fruitless ideas of Kim and his cronies is bad business. Where are the results? I haven't seen anything from this leadership in ten years. I believe it is time for change.
 




The culture is now one where you have to be afraid to speak up. Threatening voices need to be silenced one way or another. There is also a lack of anyone accepting consequences of decisions on themselves. Folks can say what they want about Koblan but man he had guts. He took stuff on himself and did alot of great stuff for the site. He also was not afraid to stand up to incompetent leaders. There is now no culture in Rahway anymore. People go about doing their jobs and try to screw each other over to stay out of bottom ratings. Sad but true.
 




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The culture is now one where you have to be afraid to speak up. Threatening voices need to be silenced one way or another. There is also a lack of anyone accepting consequences of decisions on themselves. Folks can say what they want about Koblan but man he had guts. He took stuff on himself and did alot of great stuff for the site. He also was not afraid to stand up to incompetent leaders. There is now no culture in Rahway anymore. People go about doing their jobs and try to screw each other over to stay out of bottom ratings. Sad but true.
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Thanks Mister Koblan! You were not better than Peter Kim or Kathleen Metters. RY went further downhill when you are the head.
 




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The culture is now one where you have to be afraid to speak up. Threatening voices need to be silenced one way or another. There is also a lack of anyone accepting consequences of decisions on themselves. Folks can say what they want about Koblan but man he had guts. He took stuff on himself and did alot of great stuff for the site. He also was not afraid to stand up to incompetent leaders. There is now no culture in Rahway anymore. People go about doing their jobs and try to screw each other over to stay out of bottom ratings. Sad but true.
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I couldn't agree with you more.
Sterile research facility equals no discovery.
 








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It's DOCTOR Koblan to you, chump. If you weren't anonymous, I would have my brother knee cap you.
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You are not the real ken - he threatened to break arms not perform knee caps. if you are the real ken then you did deserve to get fired since you are a genuine prick who could only "manage" by bullying
 




Anonymous said:
The culture is now one where you have to be afraid to speak up. Threatening voices need to be silenced one way or another. There is also a lack of anyone accepting consequences of decisions on themselves. Folks can say what they want about Koblan but man he had guts. He took stuff on himself and did alot of great stuff for the site. He also was not afraid to stand up to incompetent leaders. There is now no culture in Rahway anymore. People go about doing their jobs and try to screw each other over to stay out of bottom ratings. Sad but true.
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This is the only way I had remembered Merck's culture in Rahway. Could not speak up. What a horrible experience I had.
 




















Sales, R&D, Ops, HQ. One group after the other. Every VP can't wait to offer up heads to show how loyal they are and how much the are willing to "share the pain". If the Remicade decision turns out anything but most favorable to Merck and if Boceprevir has even the slightest delay, it will equate to an additional 5,000 to 10,000 heads. Lose a billion in profit and you must delete at least that in costs. What is out there that offers an enticement to come to Merck? Exactly. Not exactly an exciting journey - more like the road to nowhere. And so the reason to stay always sounds like "because I am stuck here".
 












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