Thank you for my job amgen!

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I know I will get hammered on this board, but I'm truly thankful. I'm not doing that great, but I know that I have a good salary and benefits when most the country isn't doing that great. Let the beat down begin.
 












I love my job about 85% of the time, the other 15% I can deal with.....the pay is great, the benefits are good, my manager is a good guy. I want to strangle my customers sometimes, as well as some people on my team...........who knows they may feel that way about me, but I like it here
 






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I love my job about 85% of the time, the other 15% I can deal with.....the pay is great, the benefits are good, my manager is a good guy. I want to strangle my customers sometimes, as well as some people on my team...........who knows they may feel that way about me, but I like it here
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True, some of us have a lot of flexibility in our jobs, decent pay, good vacation time, good health insurance. We get a bonus and a raise albeit not that huge but better than most. The problem is the amount of bureaucracy that if gone could make Amgen a terrific place to work at. There will always be people one does not get along with and vice versa not everyone will like me but sometimes when things don't seem to get any smoother or better the execs should asks themselves how does the work still gets done and why? A tad more thinking and using a decent amount of common sense would be a good breathe of fresh air.
 






Lets look at the flip side of this before you praise amgen.
I like hundreds of others at ARI was let go by the company during a rif and many others let go by wrongful terminations. Amgen treats people well as long as they need you when the time comes that they don't you are out on your ass. The company has no values or morals. You can praise them now but when the flip side hits you (and it will) there is no loyalty with this company your worship of this company will change. Don't ever forget you are just a number nothing else. HR and management as well as staff members will cut your throat in a heart beat and never look back. So hold that thought and repost when amgen crashes down on you.
 






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Lets look at the flip side of this before you praise amgen.
I like hundreds of others at ARI was let go by the company during a rif and many others let go by wrongful terminations. Amgen treats people well as long as they need you when the time comes that they don't you are out on your ass. The company has no values or morals. You can praise them now but when the flip side hits you (and it will) there is no loyalty with this company your worship of this company will change. Don't ever forget you are just a number nothing else. HR and management as well as staff members will cut your throat in a heart beat and never look back. So hold that thought and repost when amgen crashes down on you.
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Please spout that crap on the other 985 negative threads
 






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Please spout that crap on the other 985 negative threads
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Agreed! He also forgot to mention that the RIF, while utterly awful, did pay a year's worth of benefits and almost that in pay - without working a day!!! If you were able to get another job in that time frame - you actually earned double pay!! Tell me how many companies give that kind of severance. Every company lays off people at some time or another - and you get the haters to come out of the woodwork because they were laid off - but for Amgen to be that generous in a time when they were going to lay off people anyway, they handled it as classy as possible. By the way - in flush times - many people left Amgen voluntarily. I didn't see Amgen bemoaning the "traitors" who left. It's a 2-way street. Ask those people who left Amgen voluntarily if they had morals to work at Amgen free for a year and not take any benefits. Where were their morals and loyalty?
 






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Agreed! He also forgot to mention that the RIF, while utterly awful, did pay a year's worth of benefits and almost that in pay - without working a day!!! If you were able to get another job in that time frame - you actually earned double pay!! Tell me how many companies give that kind of severance. Every company lays off people at some time or another - and you get the haters to come out of the woodwork because they were laid off - but for Amgen to be that generous in a time when they were going to lay off people anyway, they handled it as classy as possible. By the way - in flush times - many people left Amgen voluntarily. I didn't see Amgen bemoaning the "traitors" who left. It's a 2-way street. Ask those people who left Amgen voluntarily if they had morals to work at Amgen free for a year and not take any benefits. Where were their morals and loyalty?
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Now I'm convinced that HR trolls are posting just to meet goals and objectives. Crawl back under your rocks and leave honest people alone here to complain if they want to.
 






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Now I'm convinced that HR trolls are posting just to meet goals and objectives. Crawl back under your rocks and leave honest people alone here to complain if they want to.
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Not much of an argument. How about respond with an intelligent answer rather than the typical "go crawl under a rock" because that's all you can think of. Not an HR troll, just an employee who saw a family member riff'ed and then get a job within months at another company and make out like a bandit. He took the right approach and made a bad situation a great one. As a previous poster said, go to one of the other 895 negative threads.
 






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Not much of an argument. How about respond with an intelligent answer rather than the typical "go crawl under a rock" because that's all you can think of. Not an HR troll, just an employee who saw a family member riff'ed and then get a job within months at another company and make out like a bandit. He took the right approach and made a bad situation a great one. As a previous poster said, go to one of the other 895 negative threads.
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As soon as someone says something positive you are either a manager or an hr troll, really spend time in the 598 other threads a leave us be
 






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As soon as someone says something positive you are either a manager or an hr troll, really spend time in the 598 other threads a leave us be
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Go take your "I'm a victim" mentality to another company. The violins are playing for your pity party. As I said before, not a "troll," but a positive, optimistic employee who saw their family member get "riffed" and did something about it! You make your own luck; it isnt given to you. Leave if you really feel mistreated. Not too many places to go - and with your defeatist attitude, I'm sure you're thinned from the herd pretty quickly.
 






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As soon as someone says something positive you are either a manager or an hr troll, really spend time in the 598 other threads a leave us be
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You, my friend, are a perfect example of modern day Darwinism. You will get self-selected out on the street. How many other companies want that attitude, especially when they can have their pick of the crop right now? Look in the mirror. make a difference or make an exit.
 






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You, my friend, are a perfect example of modern day Darwinism. You will get self-selected out on the street. How many other companies want that attitude, especially when they can have their pick of the crop right now? Look in the mirror. make a difference or make an exit.
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An example of social darwinism would have this person extinct, not surviving and thriving spewing trash across my airwaves..... groovy, can you dig it
 












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Agreed! He also forgot to mention that the RIF, while utterly awful, did pay a year's worth of benefits and almost that in pay - without working a day!!! If you were able to get another job in that time frame - you actually earned double pay!! Tell me how many companies give that kind of severance. Every company lays off people at some time or another - and you get the haters to come out of the woodwork because they were laid off - but for Amgen to be that generous in a time when they were going to lay off people anyway, they handled it as classy as possible. By the way - in flush times - many people left Amgen voluntarily. I didn't see Amgen bemoaning the "traitors" who left. It's a 2-way street. Ask those people who left Amgen voluntarily if they had morals to work at Amgen free for a year and not take any benefits. Where were their morals and loyalty?
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Actually almost all the other big pharma companies have the same severance package. Novartis layoff last December gave a year of med insurance minimum 20 weeks pay with additional weeks for every year of employment after 8 years, $2,500 in training "pay", and the reps earned a paycheck until Feb. 7, 2011 (to avoid WARN) while they looked for another job. Amgen is no special treat.
 






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Actually almost all the other big pharma companies have the same severance package. Novartis layoff last December gave a year of med insurance minimum 20 weeks pay with additional weeks for every year of employment after 8 years, $2,500 in training "pay", and the reps earned a paycheck until Feb. 7, 2011 (to avoid WARN) while they looked for another job. Amgen is no special treat.
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20 vs 40 - 52 weeks of pay is a big difference...
 






Anonymous said:
Actually almost all the other big pharma companies have the same severance package. Novartis layoff last December gave a year of med insurance minimum 20 weeks pay with additional weeks for every year of employment after 8 years, $2,500 in training "pay", and the reps earned a paycheck until Feb. 7, 2011 (to avoid WARN) while they looked for another job. Amgen is no special treat.
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Are you kidding me? You're telling me that a guy with 16 years of service got only 22 weeks of pay at Novartis and you're comparing that to the almost full-year pay of those who were riffed at Amgen? And tell me about "all of the other big pharma companies'" severance packages. I, for a fact, know Abbott's and Takeda's. Not even close to Amgen's. Apples and Oranges.
 












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It's our board now. Get lost!
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Hey "insert tab a into slot b" jerk off, they have a whole other board for manufacturing - you might get more traction with your jabber jawing there.........
additionally if you think that any company owes you anything your dad must have worked for the union and your mom must have been a teacher, corporate america is all about churn and burn, work hard, play harder, climb your way up fast, add value, keep on keeping on my man
 












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