Yes, yes, yes. We get it. Nothing Lifetech (Or IVGN or ABI) has done in the past or will do in the future is any good at all. It's all junk. Junky junk junk junk.

The public and everyone else must be complete morons to keep such a terrible company with such obviously bad products in business.

You Biofind geniuses sure have the inside scoop. I shudder to think what would happen if you all joined forces and started up a Biotech Utopian company paradise for people to work at. You clearly have all the answers.

Attune is a disaster.

So is anyone selling that piece of junk Attune ? I remember the MBA six sigma bozoz had forecasted over 100 per year... That thing oozed junk, just looking at it it spelled junk. It had a good team behind it but man what a piece of junk. JUNKY JUNK SYNERGIZE THE JUNKY JUNK and get +1%. Herrrre junky junky junk !

i love the ab marketing, see comments below the picture... bunch of dufus http://twitpic.com/42zv5c

Twit Pics is the appropriate place for photos of JB. And the answer to the question---

Not in JB's professional lifetime at LIFE.

i love the ab marketing, see comments below the picture... bunch of dufus http://twitpic.com/42zv5c

Sounds like inside tech support is OK then...We just can't understand you on the phone...

me love LIFE! me still have job. he he he

VVV "disposable" and "perceived" for (sic)

I never for a minute assumed that all of the "happy" posts are from one person. Yet one of you is still associating posts I didn't write with posts I did. And some of you lackeys are the only ones invoking suspicion of a "conspiracy." There is nothing conspriatorial about what is happening at Life. That would imply actions that were secretive and covert. On the contrary, at life tech there is a deliberate, [b]overt[/b] culture of regarding people as dispotable commodities in favor of preceived advantage to the corporation. This would be morally offensive even if Life Tech executives were competent to succeed in this vision. It seems they are not.

I'm not saying everyone here is a nutcase, but come on....this forum is all about the Great Lifetech conspiracy. I think it is a joke. But I have been wrong from time to time, and maybe I am wrong about this. I am sorry for being such a little bitch. I didn't mean to say those things, and I hope it doesnt hurt our friendship.

The post was right on about the quest results...I don't think this guy got the memo.

You are like that fat bitch at the grocery store who says she doesn't read the Enquire but stalls the line... That's OK, you are not a player so maybe you should just step aside and live happy, and remember to sing THE PROTOCOL before dinner. It's also OK if you cry before falling asleep.

Yep...you just can't accept that someone doesn't share your view.

I think its you that needs a friend...and probably a hug. I am here simply because I enjoy reading all the BS that people post about the Lifetech corporate conspiracy.

Also, every once in awhile, there is some good info here. You just have to filter out the nutcases and find it.

If you are happy @ LIFE, why are you wasting your time trolling around this forum? Most of us have an excuse, but what exactly is yours?
Most of us are here to vent, others maybe to commiserate. I find it odd that you here in the first place. If you are one of the 37% (Quest survey results, 2009) that are happy at LIFE, that is great. We all want to be in your group someday (37%...duh, winning)...For now I am part of the majority (63%) who thinks LIFE is not so great, and that you need to find some friends, or something better to do with your time.

Do you wear brown underwear ? Is there a special church for folks like you ? I love my co workers, except the idiot ones, you would fit in that last group.

You certainly got me there. How profound. Keep it coming - you just solidify my position that you are a bitter, disturbed troll.

******Yeah. WE are the goons. ***where is that rolling eyes emoticon?**

Do you wear brown underwear ? Is there a special church for folks like you ? I love my co workers, except the idiot ones, you would fit in that last group.

Same ole drivel again and again.

We get it - you don't like corporate America or Lifetech.

Move on.

No matter how eloquently you write it, no matter how many names you call people - Lifetech can be a nice place to work. You don't have to be a "lackey", "stooge" or any of the other names you come up with to be happy working there.

Do I agree with all the recent policies and changes? No. Not at all. I have quite a few moral and personal issues with the company like everyone else. I just don't believe in this vast conspiracy to keep the working man down and screw him out of all his money. There is good and there is bad. Deal with it.

Just as you say that I am "swinging away at ghosts", you are as well. I am not the only one here who is tired of your constant ranting.

You do realize there have been multiple different (prob 3 - 5) cirtics of Life tech in the last round of concerns. You make it sound like there is but one "bitter" ghost in the dark that you insist on swinging at but don't have a clue where it is.

Well I'm the guy who accused one of you of being a congenital lackey and have nothing to say about Open array or any specific system. Life tech is a large company with substantial inertia in some areas and of course there are a lot of cogs in stable businesses at Life Tech whose jobs have not been impacted in any in any meaningful way over some period of time, nor in jeopardy within the perceptible horizon. So what?

Even there, where it is to LTI's advantage to retain cogs to keep the machine functioning efficiently, they have taken deliberate advantage of the fact people have very few alternative options these days by de facto eliminating health care benefits for the vast majority of employess who are fundamentally healthy and will never spend anywhere near the obscene deductibles. And they are charging them thousands per year in premiums to be abused this way.

Be that as it may, the existance many satisfied cogs doesn't contradict the fact that Life Tech is accruing a remarkable record of decisions motivated primarily by corporate greed and executive aggrandizement that have devestated many lives and families - decisions that had poor risk/benefit values in the first place and/or which resulted from incompetent decisions. People have indeed been victimized by senior management/executives who were absolutely unconscionable in their vigor in tossing people over the side of the lifeboat to protect their own situation in the upheaval resulting from poor or incompetent decisions that they were part of.

I'm not sure why it should have your knickers in a twist butI just remarked on the brutal irony that exists when that management made a poor decision they weren't qualified to make in the face of competent guidance on the risk benefit from empoyess who are then the ones to suffer the consequences of the poor decision. This situation is ocurring all the time, not only at Life Tech, but throughout corporate America. Whether or not you have been vicitmized personally this way (yet) if you don't find this morally offensive, there really is something wrong with you and you are most certainly a lackey oblivious to everything else as you crawl along with your head perpetually down, pushing a peanut with your nose to fill a bin for the greater glory of Life Tech.

Yeah. WE are the goons. ***where is that rolling eyes emoticon?**

You certainly seem intelligent but that doesn't stop you from being a completely delusional paranoid troll.

Accept it...not everyone is a bitter jerk like you and you don't have all the answers. Despite your constant drivel and complaining here, you have affected no change and you have improved nothing. MANY people enjoy their jobs here at Life and perhaps the reason you have so many issues is because you are such an a$$.

It truly must suck being you.

You two goons make me laugh, what makes you think folks on here are out of Life. Have you ever thought this place would be dead if you actually listened to your staff... This is the vent box you are trying to kill internally, so it goes outside.

And by the way, I once said in a meeting that the Open Array was a sub par instrument (to bring up one of the posts below), not worthy of our brand or it's spec sheet (I really meant that it was a piece of shit). I got blown off, no questions asked, that's about the same time the product manager took over for 10 days before he left running out of the company, scared like a poor child, watching the folks in Woburn spreading Roche Taq and SAB primers all over the micro planes... idiots ! I can't believe we work together, but then again, a guy who says he //////Supporting daily Open Array manufacturing operations using both a detailed understanding and broad view of the many complex inter dependencies between the processes, tools, methods, people, and materials required.
Identifying, implementing, and validating improvements to manufacturing yield, capacity, efficiency, and safety through strategic Six Sigma and Lean based activities./////

No wonder the place went bonkers for 4 months without any production... That job description is pure gold ! Another belted ninja talking the talk.

Let's face it, idiots bought Open Array because it was up for sale or bankrupt and Roche was killing AB on the 1534 front.

You sound like a congenital lackey to me.

And you sound like a congenital defect to me. No wonder Lifetech got rid of you. You are a cancer to all around you (yes - I realize that cancer isn't congenital - the comparison is still accurate).

Plus I think you flatter yourself that you stood up against the tide. You sound like a congenital lackey to me.

And who knows if you ever worked on a project important enough to elicit true, pathological hatred when it didn't go the way the ivory tower wanted it to go.

You are so utterly and completely full of sh*t. You just can't accept the fact that many people have no issues within Life and are actually enjoying a rewarding career. All places have some ups and downs, Lifetech is no different. No better, no worse. Get over it.

Why are you so bitter? Mommy not give you enough hugs?

Plus I think you flatter yourself that you stood up against the tide. You sound like a congenital lackey to me.

And who knows if you ever worked on a project important enough to elicit true, pathological hatred when it didn't go the way the ivory tower wanted it to go.

if speaking up to management worked with data backing you up, why do they still have openarray?

"I work at LT and am a conscientious objector...and it works."

You sound naive, co-dependent or suffer from Charlie Sheen syndrome! I hear they laugh at you and use you as a tool for their own success.

Get out, start your own company or move on to a worthy company with the skills you still have(before they fire you too).

You are were I was a few months ago. Time to man-up and move on.

Although eloquently written...this is unfiltered BS. I work at LT and am a conscientious objector...and it works. No doubt you have to be careful...but I have said hugely unpopular things to senior management. You just have to have the data, passion and delivery to do it right.

When the management ranks are full of market incompetence..those who understand their market, customers and ultimately applied science can thrive...you just have to exercise good judgement...and pick your battles!

he is looking pretty smart to me.

Yes it can, doesn't mean roid boy is any smarter

So do we have spc on that machine ? some people are talking about 300 bp.

Didn't get your dose of 'roid this week ?

I have seen so many people speak the truth at Life tech and then get the royal treatment...

and I have seen many people who have spoken the "truth" as you call it and have had no negative consequences.

It's not always a conspiracy. Sometimes - there may actually be a valid reason someone was let go or given "the royal treatment".

Of course - that would never occur to anyone here.

I have seen so many people speak the truth at Life tech and then get the royal treatment...

VV "meritorious" (can't edit)

No, Nancy, you're gossiping here for reasons you think are maritorious(whether or not anyone else does). Just like everyone else here.

Are you really so dim you don't see any irony here? No need to answer that. Toodles

No irony here. I'm not here gossiping like a bunch of little school girls because Lifetech isn't run the way that I would run it.

Toodles.

Lots of people are courageous enough to tell their managers what (often unrecognized) risk is attached to decisions that are being made. It is also fairly common that the decision maker is completely unqualified to recognize this risk but has every reason to trust and respect the judgement of the person who is advising them that the risk/benefit is unfavorable. However, very often that professional integrity does NOT work out well for the cosncientious advisor as the possible negative consequences will be unpopular with the bosses' bosses and those guys aren't going to take the heat for that. So the conscientious advisor is perceived and portrayed in a negative light, the decison that conforms with the illusions of the top bosses IS made and enforced, and when the invevitable failure eventually does occur, the poor saps who were trying to do the right thing are even blamed as the cause of the failure. They end up fired and the boss puts in for his bonus. Yay.

Please spare me all your accusations of "paranoid ranting" and "internet diva-nation" all you stooges out there. This is exactly what happens all the time in complex corporate environments, especially ones with multi-layer executive hierarchies wherein entree into the executive suite is actually and exclusively a political decision however much it is purported to be a function of professional accumen (Life Tech, e.g. but very very common throughout the US).

And not to minimize the tragedy of many lives destroyed every day by these kind of machinations in corporate America, for an especially poignant example, go read up on the history of the Challenger disaster and then read my first paragraph again.

"Or do you work in a regime of fear ? Sad"

Right on the button.

They are blowing smoke ???? Nooooooo ! You mean the press releases are always true ? Like when SMS was ready to go ? Why don't you folks grow balls and tell your boss' managers and minions that they are making fools out of you. Or do you work in a regime of fear ? Sad.

Measure single a H+ for 10kb!!!

They're just blowing smoke on the single molecule stuff. Even if they get to accurate sub-femtoliter reaction volumes, single proton detection is still "seeing" a +1 proton increase in a pool of a few dozen existing protons at pH 7. At those levels, whether or not there are 1, 2 or 3 polymerase molecules in the reaction will (based on the pI of the polymerase) greatly alter the buffering capacity.

"You internet gossip divas need to get a life and grow up."

Are you really so dim you don't see any irony here? No need to answer that. Toodles

Yes they did!!! Why would they buy Ion Torrent for then?
And I hope the Ion Torrent machine fails as well.
And I hope they spend their last bucks buying Pacific Bio and that fails too. It would be so nice to see them turned into a small company. Maybe that will teach them to be humble...

You are pathetic. Wishing an entire company would fail because you didn't make the cut?

Very nice. Lifetech's failure would hurt more than the executives that you idiots seem to hate so much. There are a few bad apples here as there are at any other company.

You internet gossip divas need to get a life and grow up.

Looking toward the future of the Ion Torrent technology, Lucier hinted that it could be used for single-molecule analysis of both DNA and other types of molecules. He also affirmed that it will be able to produce long reads, similar to the 454 and Pacific Biosciences platforms.

Measure single a H+ for 10kb!!! Worth 2X the $700M. I'm going to go buy more Life Tech Stock right now.

my god this is terrible, the ceo should be ashamed !

Impossible. LIFE sequenced his genome. Perfect diploid homozygous replacement of the ashamed ORF with the arse ORF. Followed by gene amplification.

my god this is terrible, the ceo should be ashamed !

Yes they did!!! Why would they buy Ion Torrent for then?
And I hope the Ion Torrent machine fails as well.
And I hope they spend their last bucks buying Pacific Bio and that fails too. It would be so nice to see them turned into a small company. Maybe that will teach them to be humble...

What ? They must have dropped 40 million in that ! They dropped single molecule ?????

They just canceled starlite didn't they? JB is probably off to make IT an equally smashing success.

Didn't life push this product as being the ultimate forces of IVGN and AB coming together for a great product ? They had all sorts of great positive, expensive marketing behind it. Would all of that be canned then ? Does the market know that ?

Anybody knows when the starlite litebright (whatever codename it is) is coming out, they have all sort of marketing around single molecule and it was supposed to be in tests sites in a few labs last month.

It working fantastically well!! See comments by JB in December BioTechniques. So any day now!

Or, perhaps, the entire sequencing operation at LIFE is being run by dishonest people who spend their days collecting their "milestone bonuses" and hiding behind "forward looking statements."

Anybody knows when the starlite litebright (whatever codename it is) is coming out, they have all sort of marketing around single molecule and it was supposed to be in tests sites in a few labs last month.