"I m gonna whoop u!"

Please do, I love it rough.

Why are LT hiring so many new people in UK sales? About 5 jobs advertised in the last month. Very optimistic when funding is abysmal and scientific morale has gone out of the window!

I m gonna whoop u!

"Leave HV alone!"

No, to hell with her.

Leave HV alone!

"Angry leprechaun is what the women of ops business Excellence group call the Irish born human resources worker trying to sniff out merger leaks. Inside information from there dry. We don't need we have stock price movement now telling the story."

HV makes her look like Mother Teresa.

Angry leprechaun is what the women of ops business Excellence group call the Irish born human resources worker trying to sniff out merger leaks. Inside information from there dry. We don't need we have stock price movement now telling the story.

Invitrogen is alot like genital herpes, once infected you never get rid of it. Every company they have bought out or merged with has gone down the crapper, look what they did when they bought Life Tech.

Ach so. Well there may be someting to that but of course Lucifer and the Ivgn way were pernicious and avaricious long before that particular event.

"Dec 3, 2008 was a few months after Invitrogen acuquired Applied Biosystem."

Acquisition was mid November 2008...

You'll note the dates follow the English format as befits the origin of this Rumour mill. 3/12/08 is December 3, 2008. Don't know if that changes your point.

Dec 3, 2008 was a few months after Invitrogen acuquired Applied Biosystem.

You'll note the dates follow the English format as befits the origin of this Rumour mill. 3/12/08 is December 3, 2008. Don't know if that changes your point.

Look at the date this thread started

Which comes first, 6000 replies in this discussion, or the first RIF after change of control?

"Angry Leprechaun"?

You got me, I have no idea who they are describing. The one I'm thinking of goes by the name Malignant Cunt.

"Angry Leprechaun"?

"I heard the angry leprechaun in HR down on business excellence lead. Peeps quaking in their boots at HR leak searching."

Let that stupid bit*h in HR track me down, I bet she wont like what she finds when she does. You spend your career screwing your employees over sooner or later someones gonna take a chunk out of your ass.

Greg Lucier, lt ceo
Total Annual Compensation $1,186,539
Total Annual Cash Compensation $2,897,682

You're right, not sustainable long term.

Hold on now though, let's see, if slash employee healthcare benefits, make espp a joke, remove renovated cafeteria from foster city (leaving the other expensive/subsidized-to-the-company only cafe), fire R&Dleaders, questionably layoff 80% of over40 (age group) technical writers (again in fc), hire mainly contract workers and lay off full-timers (even though some of those contract workers are the same previous fulltimers now without benefits), why yes, it may just look sustainable enough to investors in the short term.

Management, especially you GE-birthed managers and directors, your vision is in reality a working scientist's nightmare. Applied Biosystems was a lame case but you have taken that to new lows on your own. Your vision is destructive and fools no one. What employee loyalty was present is now a facade. Revel in your accomplishment. Get this sham lowlife management out of there asap.

Look at all the 90K plus salaries. Not sustainable long term.

I heard the angry leprechaun in HR down on business excellence lead. Peeps quaking in their boots at HR leak searching.

Greater thAn 100k. Stocks given out and good raise. Weird deal. Bonus paid out at 100 percent multiplier b

"even though it will sting slightly in the beginning your freedom to work at a non-shithole company not populated by gutter trash management will be priceless."

truer words never spoken on this board

word of warning: watch out where you interview and end up, those personality disorder director level types, having done their foul brainless deeds now wanting to bail/bailing for new startups (figures...Invitrogen/Carlsbad director level people a ruination). make sure to look into new management and Run Away if find something old in your new mix!

"HR hates it when we share our salary/benefits...

I made >95K, working in abysmal marketing department, reporting to personality disorder types

...catch me if you can HR..."

Were you in Carlsbad?

How much payed Life for BAC?
Any rumours around?

Was Marketing Mgr making $110k + 15% bonus, wasn't worth the pain of director with personality disorder so I left. VC will pull LT apart and sell IP (ha!) piece by piece. Expect a skeleton crew to remain to keep operations running until everything is sold. R&D, Marketing, HR, and BD will be slashed. Don't worry, even though it will sting slightly in the beginning your freedom to work at a non-shithole company not populated by gutter trash management will be priceless.

engineer III in Singapore
SGD 71K annually

Material Handler 26K and all the ass you can kiss.

Facilities manager 109k

Scientist II at 96K

HR hates it when we share our salary/benefits...

I made >95K, working in abysmal marketing department, reporting to personality disorder types

...catch me if you can HR...

I do ok 110k no complain

"i got a better than expected salary rise. I should be happy but find it slightly un-nerving!"

You got something dribbling down your chin, and how are your knees doing?

Ditto! Ditto!

assholes and malcontents

Omg, the pain will last forever....

Now that TMO is off the table anyone have an idea of what life at LIFE will be like if a VC firm buys us? Say the deal goes down at COB today how much time do I have to find another job before they start selling us off business unit by business unit? What would be less carnage, a company or VC firm buying us? What typically happens to the employees in these types of deals? Not freaking out but hate having to look for a new job so soon into this one.

"i got a better than expected salary rise. I should be happy but find it slightly un-nerving!"
Many thanks to the many layoffs last year.

i got a better than expected salary rise. I should be happy but find it slightly un-nerving!

Thanks for that info Greg. You're being rewarded for all your hard work. I'm sure you're angling for 10% of the company from the VC firms as a payout for the sellout.

Yes dooooo ittt

Sell sell sellllll

i got a better than expected salary rise. I should be happy but find it slightly un-nerving!

Yippee mo money fo me

The information we were getting from business excellence group on the purchase of life dried up.

My fried at Tamesak holdings told me the sale is still on. They are buying the stocks of LifeTech on a daily basis, but cannot buy too much on any single day because that will push the price too high(already high). Eventually Life will be delisted. Trust me, I have been in Singapore for more than 40 years since birth, and worked for V&V software.

Rumours of buy-out
http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-MJ7CJS6S973501-68ENOB4BN5...

"How can he have a vision when he's had his head up his ass since Bush Jr's. first term?"

One would think that would generate a very consistent vision. Consistent.. Not a word I would associate with GL's vision of anything. Except maybe his vision of himself standing atop a large pile of cash.

"Lucier has a vision. A misguided and idiotic one, but he has one."

How can he have a vision when he's had his head up his ass since Bush Jr's. first term?

Lucier has a vision. A misguided and idiotic one, but he has one.

Not at all his vision is clear, to be the most well paid and richest person in Biotech and he has no interest or scruples on how to get there and how many lives he destroys in the process.

"Warning to all, hr is actively using all tools available to find the leak."

Let them have at it, but they may not like what they find at the end of the rainbow. A swift kick in the ass would be too good for Life Tech HR dept.

The information we were getting from business excellence group on the purchase of life dried up. My source there said human resources in Carlsbad is on a witch hunt to find the source of merger and acquisition leaks. Warning to all, hr is actively using all tools available to find the leak. I am surprised head of BE still has her head. Be careful all.

"Confirm. Tired of reading about the lifestyles of the lazy, overpaid and moronic at Frederick. This board has become like a MTV realty show based in Frederick. Hope Lucifer has you in his sights first the outsourcing efforts to china!"

Not overpaid believe me. Lazy?? Hard to be lazy with the slave drivers cracking the whip all day. And actually, given Life's penchant for catering to foreigners I'm surprised they havent outsourced our jobs to China yet, but even that would be a good thing, the property values would go up in the business park where Life is located after the stink of the place blew away.