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Spoke to a recruiter- he said that no one is willing to work with the craziness at Pathway. The recruiter does not want to place their candidates at the company. I have been using a couple recruiters to find a job and they all have the same thing to say. The recruiter also said Pathway is ripe for multiple lawsuits from employees. The recruiter felt that PG will either go with a contract sales team or look to sell. Who could ever take this public?
 



Someone previously mentioned that the CFO and Controller left recently.

That's never a good sign. Anyone know why they left?

How do you run a company without a CFO and Controller? How do the bills get paid?
 












Anonymous said:
I would like to know more about Ardy's new company.

Does it have a name?
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AA's company is in stealth mode. He won't leave until he is ready to start that new company he's rumored to be rounding up cash for. How can AA fool JP? Apparently it's easy. JP appears to have a problem discerning between intelligent people who let results and track records speak for themselves and dummies who are manipulative self-promoters that maliciously bad mouth others.

When JP removes these few new fools from his court and starts asking himself if the people around him care more about him and Pathway than themselves both Pathway and JP will be much better off.

Those without substance curse others and toot their own horn all too often. Wolves often appear in sheep clothing.
 



Anonymous said:
AA's company is in stealth mode. He won't leave until he is ready to start that new company he's rumored to be rounding up cash for. How can AA fool JP? Apparently it's easy. JP appears to have a problem discerning between intelligent people who let results and track records speak for themselves and dummies who are manipulative self-promoters that maliciously bad mouth others.

When JP removes these few new fools from his court and starts asking himself if the people around him care more about him and Pathway than themselves both Pathway and JP will be much better off.

Those without substance curse others and toot their own horn all too often. Wolves often appear in sheep clothing.
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Why would any employee be loyal to pathway genomics?
 



Why be loyal to any company? Companies are in existence to make money, its a non-living entity. People should get over the feeling of being jilted or stop trying to villainize management as trying to ruin your life. PG is a little company, sounds like it was/is poorly run, but they weren't out to make your day miserable just for the fun of it. They might have even anguished over the decision to let people go.
 



Anonymous said:
Why be loyal to any company? Companies are in existence to make money, its a non-living entity. People should get over the feeling of being jilted or stop trying to villainize management as trying to ruin your life. PG is a little company, sounds like it was/is poorly run, but they weren't out to make your day miserable just for the fun of it. They might have even anguished over the decision to let people go.
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Then Pathetic Genomics should have handled these unjust cold blooded way of destroying people's livlihoods with more professionalism than a mere e mail.
They are a company in trouble, their one for one program is a hoax. No leadership, multiple lawsuit with huge legal fees.
No, myself and many others are very happy watching them go down. They deserve it, many of us left good paying jobs to come be part of the Pathetic "family" to only be treated like the bastard child at the family reunion.
I doubt if they anguished one bit, they seem to be pros at it. Pathetic Genomics fires as many people as they hire.
The smart ones get away before the axe comes their way.
No leadership is a serious issue. I am already "over it" but enjoy the soap opera and dirty scandals coming out of San Diego.
 









Anonymous said:
AA's company is in stealth mode. He won't leave until he is ready to start that new company he's rumored to be rounding up cash for. How can AA fool JP? Apparently it's easy. JP appears to have a problem discerning between intelligent people who let results and track records speak for themselves and dummies who are manipulative self-promoters that maliciously bad mouth others.

When JP removes these few new fools from his court and starts asking himself if the people around him care more about him and Pathway than themselves both Pathway and JP will be much better off.

Those without substance curse others and toot their own horn all too often. Wolves often appear in sheep clothing.
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AA is terrible. He can't do his own job, how could he start a company?
 









Anonymous said:
Looks like all you putting down PG were wrong. They have survived and all are still there.
Maybe next time report the facts!
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Pathway Genomics is BARELY still there.

Just wait till the next round of layoffs and upper management leaves.

It's coming like a boomerang, in time everyone will leave.

They will have to, especially after the lawsuit.
 



Hiring 1099 reps is not a sign that the company is going strong. It's a sign that the company is scared to fire anymore reps so they will let the 1099 reps replace the reps in the current territory. A lawsuit has been filed against PG so its in their best interest to leave people alone and let them leave peacefully.
 



Looks like some things never change. This lawsuit was filed against Pathway a few days ago.

Case Number: 37-2014-00029114-CU-BT-CTL
Date Filed: 08/28/2014
Case Title: Millennium Laboratories vs Pathway Genomics Corporation
Case Status: Pending
Case Category: Civil - Unlimited
Location: Central
Case Type: Business Tort
Judicial Officer: Ronald S. Prager
Case Age: 18 days
Department: C-71
 



Anonymous said:
Looks like some things never change. This lawsuit was filed against Pathway a few days ago.

Case Number: 37-2014-00029114-CU-BT-CTL
Date Filed: 08/28/2014
Case Title: Millennium Laboratories vs Pathway Genomics Corporation
Case Status: Pending
Case Category: Civil - Unlimited
Location: Central
Case Type: Business Tort
Judicial Officer: Ronald S. Prager
Case Age: 18 days
Department: C-71
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Any more information on the specifics of the case. It is pending and a civil matter
Pathway Genomics is going broke with legal fees. They have their attorneys on speed dials.
 



Anonymous said:
Looks like some things never change. This lawsuit was filed against Pathway a few days ago.

Case Number: 37-2014-00029114-CU-BT-CTL
Date Filed: 08/28/2014
Case Title: Millennium Laboratories vs Pathway Genomics Corporation
Case Status: Pending
Case Category: Civil - Unlimited
Location: Central
Case Type: Business Tort
Judicial Officer: Ronald S. Prager
Case Age: 18 days
Department: C-71
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what would Ms. blah blah blah have to say about this? LOL

I was coldly given an e mail dismissing me of my services as an employee.

the only one making money at pathway is their legal counsel, frankly they deserve

60 more lawsuits against them. just a few more lawsuits will close the doors at PG.

unlike my quick and ugly death, I hope their end of the company is painful and drawn out.

lawsuits, loss of sales, more Keesha mishaps, susan g koman pulling away from their reputation. I am participating in the race for the cure, I have let them know how PG treats

their employees. our local chapter things the drunken party they put on was embarrassing to the susan g. komen name. myself and the chapter has made it very clear to our community to stay away form PG and their one for one lies.

not 1 women has benefited from this freebie program it's all lies.

pg, don't forget to turn the lights out on the way out. on second thought you probably aren't paying your light bill anyway.
 



Anonymous said:
Any more information on the specifics of the case. It is pending and a civil matter
Pathway Genomics is going broke with legal fees. They have their attorneys on speed dials.
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In the 09/17/2014 edition:
Millennium Health sues Pathway Genomics for trade secret violations
By The Pathology Blawg on Sep 17, 2014 08:00 am

Millennium Health logoMillennium Health (formerly Millennium Laboratories) has filed a lawsuit against Pathway Genomics, its CEO James Plante, and Millennium’s former laboratory director Dr. Amadeo Pesce, alleging violation of California’s Trade Secrets Act, breach of contract, breach of duty, tortious interference, unfair competition, conversion and unjust enrichment.
Allegations

Millennium hired Dr. Pesce in December 2007 to “develop and operate a state-of-the-art UDT [urine drug toxicology] lab.” Prior to his employment with Millennium, Dr. Pesce allegedly had no experience with liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) in the context of UDT testing. Millennium says this means:

…all of the knowledge and experience he currently possesses concerning the use of LC-MS/MS technology in UDT was obtained while he was serving as Millennium’s Laboratory Director…

Millennium states that during his employment, Dr. Pesce had access to and helped formulate trade secrets and proprietary methodologies that other labs do not possess and would take them years to develop on their own.

Dr. Pesce reportedly signed a confidentiality agreement in August 2008 which contained language that precluded him from engaging in unfair competition against Millennium.

Over the next seven years, Dr. Pesce became a “trusted leader in the company” and was “entrusted with a wide variety of Confidential Business Information”.

In August 2014, Dr. Pesce informed Millennium he was resigning from his position but refused to say where he was going. It took all of a day for the rumor mill at Millennium to determine Dr. Pesce had accepted a position at Pathway.

Dr. Pesce confirmed the rumors and also informed Millennium that Pathway was planning to compete with Millennium in the UDT industry. Not surprisingly, that was Dr. Pesce’s last day at Millennium.

Not long thereafter, Millennium sent a letter to Pathway and its CEO James Plante that informed them of Dr. Pesce’s confidentiality agreement.

Further investigation by Millennium uncovered email dialogues between Dr. Pesce and Pathway beginning in January 2014 that continued until July 2014. During this time CEO Plante and Dr. Pesce engaged in a “number of conversations” during which:

Plante solicited and Dr. Pesce disclosed highly sensitive Confidential Business Information regarding Millennium’s proprietary LC-MS/MS techniques and testing methodologies.

One email in July contained a list of items Dr. Pesce told Pathway he would need in order to set up a UDT lab at Pathway, which to Millennium is evidence he was using the knowledge and experience he gained at Millennium to help a competitor while he was still employed at Millennium.

Millennium contends Pathway decided to branch out from its pharmacogenetic testing focus into the UDT sphere because it is “financially distressed” and is “desperate to find a new source of revenue in order to satisfy investors.” It was this desperation that led CEO Plante to recruit Dr. Pesce away from Millennium in order to start a UDT lab at Pathway using knowledge he accrued during his years at Millennium.

Millennium also alleges CEO Plante and Pathway have attempted to woo other Millennium employees away to work in Pathway’s lab.
Causes of Action

Against Dr. Pesce:

Breach of contract
Breach of fiduciary duty
Breach of duty of loyalty
Misappropriation of trade secrets
Unfair competition
Conversion
Unjust enrichment

Against Pathway and CEO Plante:

Misappropriation of trade secrets
Tortious interference with a contractual relationship
Unfair competition
Conversion
Unjust enrichment

Prayer for Relief

Millennium is seeking:

…injunctive relief, imposition of a constructive trust for improperly acquired profits, imposition of an order directing Pathway to cease developing or operating a urine drug test line of business until such time as it would have developed the line of business through lawful means, as well as compensatory and punitive damages and monetary damages, interest, and costs of the action, including reasonable attorney’s fees.

Millennium asked the judge to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) prohibiting the defendants from disclosing, using or transferring any of Millennium’s confidential information.

As it turns out, the TRO was not needed, as both parties entered into a non-disclosure agreement, according to a September 9th court document.

Millennium’s complaint is here and the September 9th Minute Order is here.

Related posts:

Ameritox motion to dismiss Millennium Laboratories’ trade dress lawsuit rejected
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