My version of 15 by 15

Go on jealous tirades much? I am not looking to change the world, never said I did. I think you were simply itching to use that tired Peace Corps cliche you've been keeping pent up in your diaper. Focus. This thread is about being in control of your own life. Focusing on family, good friends, good food, living well. Also, being smart about finances, and having alternate sources of income. And last, but not least: giving Merck the big FU it so richly deserves. Some folks choose not to be Merck's bitches, for reasons that have been laid out very clearly. Don't take it so personally. After all, it's just business. LOL.

Oh I see, you're offering some sort of counseling and advice, like Ann Landers with encouragement of a work stoppage to fuel your own angst. At least the 15 guy has a goal. He's trying to improve his golf game. You don't even seem to have that.
 






Go on jealous tirades much? I am not looking to change the world, never said I did. I think you were simply itching to use that tired Peace Corps cliche you've been keeping pent up in your diaper. Focus. This thread is about being in control of your own life. Focusing on family, good friends, good food, living well. Also, being smart about finances, and having alternate sources of income. And last, but not least: giving Merck the big FU it so richly deserves. Some folks choose not to be Merck's bitches, for reasons that have been laid out very clearly. Don't take it so personally. After all, it's just business. LOL.

I don't believe this thread is about focus and control at all. Your posts displays neither. Just another member of the FU gang with nothing better to do than vent. Shouldn't you be spending quality time with your family rather than tossing around verbal abuse at a bunch of anonymous strangers? Or better still, move along and get that lucrative job you are owed that is commensurate with your professional talents.

OP First Post said:
I'm so done with the Sh*#hole. I have seen the older reps, who used to be our "mentors" just a few years ago, being pushed out of this company for nothing other than they are making a good salary. I'm not quite 50 yet, but getting close, and I know if I last that long the same will happen to me. Despite what I do or how hard I work it won't be enough. So today I've decided that I'm done with them. I will no longer make the extra early call or late call. I will do a lunch here & there collect a few signatures. I figure this will take me three hours a day max. Which equates to 15 hours a week. I'm gonna work a max of 15 hours a week until 2015. This is my version of 15 by 15. From now on, I will have an 25 extra hours a week to work out, spend time with my spouse or double dip with an extra job (which would be good since we didn't get much of a raise the past couple years). You want 15 by 15? It's now time for me to give it to you my way. Bend over Merck............Who's in with me?

This particular thread is really about revenge and making a conscious effort to stick it to the man. Another outdated cliché that has found its place on a thread about nothing that just keeps giving.
 






Focus? I don't need some anonymous moron on CP to tell me what, in life to focus on. But I still don't get the whole angry "FU Merck" tirades. You need focus? Focus on getting over your bitterness and moving on. Maybe you can't or don't have anywhere else to go. How sad.

Unlike you, some of us have the ability to multi-task. So we can go about our lives, and still show up here once in a while and give Merck and its leadership a big middle finger. If it makes you feel better to throw around labels like "bitterness", then have at it. You see, the beauty of this thread and others like it is something called the First Amendment. Also known as free speech. If you wanted all the posters to adhere to corporate propaganda, you came to the wrong place. I suggest you go visit the official Merck website and lap up their bullsh!t. This is not a corporate site, but a forum that gives voice to those who call Merck out on their arrogance and lies. That's the whole purpose of CP. Geez, does everything need to be spelled out for you? Of course, the main benefit here is being able to speak the truth. But many of us have noticed an added benefit: seeing you have a tittie attack every time we speak our mind! Why move on, when we can watch you throw diaper fits every time we discuss the incompetence of this company and its leadership? It is too entertaining to see you writhe and convulse every time someone hits Merck in the balls. It's as if they were hitting you in the balls personally. Except you have none.
 






I don't believe this thread is about focus and control at all. Your posts displays neither. Just another member of the FU gang with nothing better to do than vent. Shouldn't you be spending quality time with your family rather than tossing around verbal abuse at a bunch of anonymous strangers? Or better still, move along and get that lucrative job you are owed that is commensurate with your professional talents.

And yet here you are ALSO, tossing verbal abuse and not spending time with your family! It's a funny paradox: you keep telling us what time-wasters we are...while wasting so much time on us! We thank you for the attention. And for proving, in a beautifully ironic way, that you have absolutely no better place to be than here.
 






Unlike you, some of us have the ability to multi-task. So we can go about our lives, and still show up here once in a while and give Merck and its leadership a big middle finger. If it makes you feel better to throw around labels like "bitterness", then have at it. You see, the beauty of this thread and others like it is something called the First Amendment. Also known as free speech. If you wanted all the posters to adhere to corporate propaganda, you came to the wrong place. I suggest you go visit the official Merck website and lap up their bullsh!t. This is not a corporate site, but a forum that gives voice to those who call Merck out on their arrogance and lies. That's the whole purpose of CP. Geez, does everything need to be spelled out for you? Of course, the main benefit here is being able to speak the truth. But many of us have noticed an added benefit: seeing you have a tittie attack every time we speak our mind! Why move on, when we can watch you throw diaper fits every time we discuss the incompetence of this company and its leadership? It is too entertaining to see you writhe and convulse every time someone hits Merck in the balls. It's as if they were hitting you in the balls personally. Except you have none.
You mis- read me entirely. I could care less about you and your long meaningless rants. I just tune in to check on the 15 guys golf scores. You just clog things up. Like you do at your job. Time to move on. Nothing to see here.
 






You mis- read me entirely. I could care less about you and your long meaningless rants. I just tune in to check on the 15 guys golf scores. You just clog things up. Like you do at your job. Time to move on. Nothing to see here.

And yet you claimed earlier he lies about his golf scores. And then you claimed before that you could care less about his golf. And now you care again. Each time you contradict yourself, digging you own hole, and providing further proof of your mental dwarfism. With your every post, your douchiness shines like a bright beacon, for all to chuckle at. Thanks for the laughs.
 






Unlike you, some of us have the ability to multi-task. So we can go about our lives, and still show up here once in a while and give Merck and its leadership a big middle finger. If it makes you feel better to throw around labels like "bitterness", then have at it. You see, the beauty of this thread and others like it is something called the First Amendment. Also known as free speech. If you wanted all the posters to adhere to corporate propaganda, you came to the wrong place. I suggest you go visit the official Merck website and lap up their bullsh!t. This is not a corporate site, but a forum that gives voice to those who call Merck out on their arrogance and lies. That's the whole purpose of CP. Geez, does everything need to be spelled out for you? Of course, the main benefit here is being able to speak the truth. But many of us have noticed an added benefit: seeing you have a tittie attack every time we speak our mind! Why move on, when we can watch you throw diaper fits every time we discuss the incompetence of this company and its leadership? It is too entertaining to see you writhe and convulse every time someone hits Merck in the balls. It's as if they were hitting you in the balls personally. Except you have none.
Also out. It was kinda fun to egg you on for a while, now you're just boring. Like some verbose Unabomber ( unaboring). These long stories you tell should have some kinda point. That would make it much more interesting for the reader. You should get out of the basement and away from the computer, get some sunlight. Be like the 15 guy, go play golf.
 






And yet you claimed earlier he lies about his golf scores. And then you claimed before that you could care less about his golf. And now you care again. Each time you contradict yourself, digging you own hole, and providing further proof of your mental dwarfism. With your every post, your douchiness shines like a bright beacon, for all to chuckle at. Thanks for the laughs.

I never claimed not to care about his golf. I just said ( still do) that he lies about he's score. Do you know were your hero plays?
 






It accomplished quite a bit actually. He managed to keep his life balanced, and did not buy into the lies and deceit that Merck leadership is so adept at. As for whether Merck noticed, you are not in a position to say. As for whether he specifically will get a layoff notice, you are also not in a position to say. You are not their spokesman, much as you like to pretend that you are.

What? You work in corp. America and you were lied to by the company you work for? Shocking! This must of been your first job outta college. You had this fantasy of doing important work and every one at Merck standing around at the end of the day singing "we are the world" and instead you ended up washing beakers at MRL or schlepping Starbucks to ungrateful doctors if you are in sales. 20 more years of this? Yeah 20 more years . If not here than some were else.
 






What? You work in corp. America and you were lied to by the company you work for? Shocking! This must of been your first job outta college. You had this fantasy of doing important work and every one at Merck standing around at the end of the day singing "we are the world" and instead you ended up washing beakers at MRL or schlepping Starbucks to ungrateful doctors if you are in sales. 20 more years of this? Yeah 20 more years . If not here than some were else.

You see, these are the convulsive toddler tantrums we come on here to enjoy. LOL. Not only do we get a chance to speak our minds freely, but we get to see you wet your diaper. While trying to exert some mythical force field over whoever has anything critical to say about your beloved Merck. Have you promoted yourself to CEO yet? CEO of your very own LEGO Star Wars kit? Time to fire C3PO. And if he doesn't behave, you may need to can R2D2 alongside of him. You have so much corporate power, you should use it wisely. Don't down-size Luke Skywalker unless you absolutely need to. And when you're done playing CEO, we'll still be here laughing.
 






I never claimed not to care about his golf. I just said ( still do) that he lies about he's score. Do you know were your hero plays?

How predictable. You get called out on your own douchey lies, and now you're backpedaling. Trying to split hairs. I care. I don't care. I care a little bit, but not too much. You're starting to sound like PeeWee Herman: I know you are, but what am I? So in summary, you care about his golf, but you are jealous of his golf balls? Do you even hear yourself sometimes?
 






You see, these are the convulsive toddler tantrums we come on here to enjoy. LOL. Not only do we get a chance to speak our minds freely, but we get to see you wet your diaper. While trying to exert some mythical force field over whoever has anything critical to say about your beloved Merck. Have you promoted yourself to CEO yet? CEO of your very own LEGO Star Wars kit? Time to fire C3PO. And if he doesn't behave, you may need to can R2D2 alongside of him. You have so much corporate power, you should use it wisely. Don't down-size Luke Skywalker unless you absolutely need to. And when you're done playing CEO, we'll still be here laughing.

You have a diaper fetish. Eat mine.
 






I remember attending a meeting in Chicago with the fearless Regional Mgr. Michael Tu, and he introduced his manager, sorry, can't remember the douche's name, and said, "here is a guy who really drinks the Kool-Aid". Yes, the competent management at Merck, not realizing the slogan comes from a mass suicide in Jonestown back in the day. The sad thing is, dumbasses like Tu, still hold top positions in the Pharma Industry. So I salute Mr. 15 x 15. Is he still hanging in there, as the OP was back in 2011???

Not Jonestown. Go back "Further". The electric Kool-Aid acid test with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters in 1963-4, of which the Grateful Dead became involved. Drinking the Kool Aid did not mean death, rather, hallucinations. Fitting.
 






Not Jonestown. Go back "Further". The electric Kool-Aid acid test with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters in 1963-4, of which the Grateful Dead became involved. Drinking the Kool Aid did not mean death, rather, hallucinations. Fitting.

This is indeed the correct reference for "drinking the Kool-Aid". Great book, a favorite of mine.
 






You see, these are the convulsive toddler tantrums we come on here to enjoy. LOL. Not only do we get a chance to speak our minds freely, but we get to see you wet your diaper. While trying to exert some mythical force field over whoever has anything critical to say about your beloved Merck. Have you promoted yourself to CEO yet? CEO of your very own LEGO Star Wars kit? Time to fire C3PO. And if he doesn't behave, you may need to can R2D2 alongside of him. You have so much corporate power, you should use it wisely. Don't down-size Luke Skywalker unless you absolutely need to. And when you're done playing CEO, we'll still be here laughing.

Wow. Star Wars huh? Do you have the little action figures lined up next to your computer? Do they talk to you? Trekkie too? Explains a lot. Sad. Creepy but sad.
 


















Yeah..I'm also right there behind you. You show 'em!! I am too afraid of losing my job, so won't be participating in your ploy but you have my full support on these anonymous boards.
 












Wow. Star Wars huh? Do you have the little action figures lined up next to your computer? Do they talk to you? Trekkie too? Explains a lot. Sad. Creepy but sad.

Ding, ding, ding. Our resident douche troll strikes again. Of course the Star Wars toys I referred to earlier...are the ones you pretend to fire as pretend-CEO. In your pretend-corporation. That is the extent of your powers, even though you LOVE to come here and wax prophetic about who will get laid off next. News release, douche-bag: you have no power over anyone. Your sole function in life is the pollution this forum with the same tired material. And you pollute here with such clockwork precision and frequency, it is blatantly apparent to the rest of us: you have no life. And I suspect no job, which drives your bitterness towards those of us who are gainfully employed.