Rumor has it that the current New London facility will be sold to the State of Connecticut and remodeled to be a correctional facility. A spokesman for the emerging deal stated that the current facility will be renamed Morningwood Minimum Security prison and will serve the state well.

The end is near, and fruitless chatter is everywhere. The endless rumors, the tiring scenarios of cuts to management, PhD's, associates and the like in R&D are rampant. The crap on site closures, deep cuts in personnel not being 'mapped' into the Pfizer BU's are getting worrisome-- who do I believe?

I have a friend, R6 or R7 (don't want to get too specific here) who is in charge of a moderate set of people. This person has been looking to buy a home for a long time and an almost unbelievable opportunity has presented itself. The deal is so good that unless my friend were SURE (s)he wasn't going to survive the merger, this would be a no brainer.

Not much time my friends
The boss looking over my shoulder
Just popped in to say
The temp at Pfizer's grown much colder.

Latest sources: Groton's open
Biology to take a major hit
Small molecules will survive
But decimated to total sh-t.

Pearl River, Mass on the Wyeth side
Looking sorry for the rest
Biologics and vaccines stay on the ride

Wyeth shareholders vote tomorrow on Sale, EC has approved. Any rumors about if they will announce date for merger?????

Today (Thursday), I have received 11 (!) emails from former colleagues at Groton--a combination of "join my LinkedIn account" and private emails (asking how things are where I'm working now...)

Last time I got such a flurry of emails of this type, it was when the last round of layoffs were announced.

Did anything go down in Groton today?

I have taken a job as a Global Representative for a Pfizer business. I can live and work at any Pfizer site for my new job. I asked HR if they could tell me which site I should relocate to so that I will not have to move again after the Wyeth close. I was contacted 2 days later and told Groton or STL.

As bad as St. Louis

Wyeth shareholders are scheduled to vote on July 20. Does any know of how long after shareholders vote that mergers usually are completed???

Heard today that there was a major layoff of HR, Finanace and IT in Maryville, MO. I know this is true but not sure how many and exactly what departments were impacted. Everything is going to the outsourcing world there. Chesterfield wasn't impacted at all. Twenty one DSRD folfs leaving Groton this week, all are saying good bye through email.