I wish they would catch the person doing this, I was caught today in the prank and it was a real mess. I feel sorry for the person who has to clean it up

here it is straight from Beckman Website,

http://www.beckmancoulter.com/literature/ClinDiag/395021-B.pdf

[I heard that if your caught with a roll of Saran Wrap you can be fired...]

It would depend on "who" you are. If you are a manager, related to a company executive, a "yes" man/woman or an HR Rep you likely would just receive a verbal warning. If you are an hourly employee, over age 40 or not a "yes" man/woman you could be terminated. Beckman HR loves to use trivial things like this as excuses to shed workers.

If you are among the privileged group you can falsify records, bring pornography to work, send inappropriate E-mail even use work time to perform personal business without concern for disciplinary action.

Beckman are going to layoff more people, stock price in the toilet, sales at nearly zero, FDA all over them, as everybody knows the cream does not float to the top,it's more like a toilet bowl.

Top people have either been laid off, forced to retire, or have left.

The people remaining are just "Yes" types, usually of foreign origin or "white trash" like all of the VP's supporting SG.

With income going south, looks like Beckman is headed for Bankruptcy just like Dade.

Well done Scotty......another Company ruined and you got paid.

"I heard that if your caught with a roll of seran [sic - it's Saran] Wrap you can be fired, they are really getting serious about catching the moron who is doing the toilet pranks."

Shouldn't be too suprising. This is what happens when you hire a bunch of kids - fresh out of college - with no in-vitro diagnostic experience. You get no new innovation, poor customer service skills, inability to understand/support existing technology and sophomoric pranks. But look what SG saved on salaries and pensions.

Beckman is a joke currently and it is not going to come out of the problems anytime soon.

Beckman just recalled parachute, faulty.

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Not to worry, SG has a special parachute configuration. Actually two parachutes connected by an automation line. Of course there is always the likelihood that the automation line will fail too.

Faulty parachute.......... that is funny!

Beckman just recalled parachute, faulty

Parachute already paid for, he will get a nice severance package.

Why doesn't SG just close the doors and lay off everyone? Look at all the money he would save. No unhappy customers to deal with. No quality problems either. No FDA investigations. Then he can auction off the company assets and ride off into the sunset with his golden parachute.

He has to find some sucker to fund the parachute.

Now that BEC is 30% cheaper, anyone looking for a bargain? Or does it have to sink lower?

This has to be done for the company to survive long term.

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The company will not survive long term unless they take care of current customers and employees; develop innovative and dependable new products and eliminate the current greedy, lackluster and uninformed management and minions.

Management has had at least six years to transform the company into their vision for the future. All that has been achieved is to alienate customers and employees while dismembering things and allowing quality to faulter.

There will be no Beckman Coulter in the long term.

Need to transfer all profit producing centers out of California first to other lower cost operations or to ouside suppliers. This has to be done for the company to survive long term.

Why doesn't SG just close the doors and lay off everyone? Look at all the money he would save. No unhappy customers to deal with. No quality problems either. No FDA investigations. Then he can auction off the company assets and ride off into the sunset with his golden parachute.

"New review process makes a record of midyear reviews. Review is 99 percent good but manager tries get you to agree to one problem. Yeah, we set you up to do the work of three people and you could only do the work of two and a half so you didn't finish all of it. We shouldn't do that from now on, right?"

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What a shoddy way to treat employees! If you don't need employees (doubtful with Beckman's current quality and customer service issues) then treat them with respect and dignity and just let them go.

There working it this way this time
New review process makes a record of midyear reviews
Review is 99percent good but manager tries get you to agree to one problem. Yeah, we set you up to do the work of three people and you could only do the work of two and a half so you didn't finish all of it. We shouldn't do that from now on, right?
Wrtten part of the review that goes on record only says "employee agrees that they were unable to complete assigned tasks". Nothing positive
No way for employee to respond on the record in the new process.
Cause now on record for all employees so over 40 is no problem for hr

Another bloodbath end of this month, huge layoffs.....

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How huge is huge we have heard this before and still waiting to see the HUGE numbers

Another bloodbath end of this month, huge layoffs.....

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The only way management can make the financials look better. In years past it was done by selling and supporting quality products but management has virtually dismembered Beckman.

Another bloodbath end of this month, huge layoffs.....

Direct from the California EDD website regarding penalties for employers who violate WARN Act provisions:

A possible civil penalty of $500 a day for each day of violation. Employees may receive back pay to be paid at employee’s final rate or 3 year average rate of compensation, whichever is higher. In addition, employer is liable for cost of any medical expenses incurred by employees that would have been covered under an employee benefit plan. The employer is liable for period of violation up to 60 days or one-half the number of days the employee was employed whichever period is smaller. (California Labor Code Section 1403).

Beckman – DO THE RIGHT THING.

If BCI is/was non-compliant, what needs to be done get it corrected?

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Contact your State Department of Labor (or whatever it is called in your state.)

You should know that in many states the penalty for violating the WARN act is a $25 fine. So you get Beckman a $25 fine, big deal, it won't get your job back. In addition, many states have so many WARN violations that they are backlogged and may never even get to your case.

BCI may have good attorneys, but that doesn’t make them know-all super heroes, especially if mistakes are caused by others in the company. Is there an attorney or someone who is reading this who is up-to-speed on the ins and outs of the WARN Act, and can answer these questions: Is there a technicality that allowed BCI to pick and choose who received 60 days notice and not report layoffs to EDD for most of 2009? Layoffs that occurred last year were spread out so that they numbered less than 50 employees per month. Because of the frequency of so many “less than 50” monthly layoffs, wasn’t BCI required to report 90 days layoff periods to EDD, instead of the usual 30 days layoff periods (as noted in the WARN Act excerpt in a previous post)? If BCI is/was non- compliant, what needs to be done get it corrected?

"certainly does not need the negative publicity."

How much more negative publicity can they take. Their Troponin test is killing people, sales of reagents/Instruments have tanked, they are on shipping hold in Brea and Chaska, and Miami are not selling either.

They have to layoff more people, the only way to keep profits up.

The FDA are going to destroy Beckman Coulter, just wait and see.

becman has hr lawyers who make there money finding ways to get around laws that are supposed to help employees so they are probly ok by some tecnicality

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I sure am glad you are NOT my lawyer.

Unfortunately most folks separated from Beckman just signed the release, took the severance and moved on. When you are facing unemployment your first concern is getting reemployed and your last concern is dealing with your past employer.

Should not be that way. If enough folks challenged the WARN notice and contacted EEOC, etc. this type of employee discrimination would be reduced.

Despite what the previous poster thinks, Beckman does not have a large legal staff and only has retainers with a few firms to deal with issues as they arise. Beckman does not like to spend $$$ on lawyers and certainly does not need the negative publicity.

becman has hr lawyers who make there money finding ways to get around laws that are supposed to help employees so they are probly ok by some tecnicality

A couple of posts note that BCI did not give WARN Act 60 days notice to many of its employees who were laid off in 2009.In addition,only reported 32 layoffs to EDD for all of 2009.Note the following excerpt-how many distinct causes could BCI possibly come up with in 2009 to avoid being consistent with 60 days notice and reporting 90-day layoff periods to EDD?

WARN ACT EXCERPT:
Warn also looks at the employment losses that occur over a 90-day period.An employer is required to give advance notice if it has a series of small terminations or layoffs,none of which individually would be covered under WARN but which add up to numbers that would require WARN notice.An employer is not required to give notice if it can show that the individual events occurred as a result of separate and distinct actions and causes and are not an attempt to evade WARN.

"If SG resigns how bad will Beckman end up? or is there an upside if he does?"

I pondered this as well. What is SG's claim to fame at Beckman? I can think of little. The management and direction is so dysfunctional. Someone has to be held accountable. Don't see how Beckman could get much worse except for bankruptcy and that won't happen anytime soon.

If SG was a real man he would resign. Thing is he knows that the job market is poor, especially with his work history at Dade.

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If SG resigns how bad will Beckman end up? or is there an upside if he does?

lets hope that dumb shit RC gets shit canned first for starting all this mess!!!!!!

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RC's head would be a good start but Beckman's problems go beyond Chaska and beyond RC. Seems like the board has to offer up some type of sacrificial lamb prior to the stockholders meeting/QTR1 financials. Ideally it should be SG and his inner circle which would include RC.

If SG was a real man he would resign. Thing is he knows that the job market is poor, especially with his work history at Dade.

It's OK for SG to cut workers but when the cuts come to his neighborhood then there are two sets of rules.

cut executive pay and bonuses not workers !

They need to cut executive pay and bonuses. They don't deserve them especially when the real workers don't get bonuses and increases. That boys club is worse than cancer.

lets hope that dumb shit RC gets shit canned first for starting all this mess!!!!!!

Rumor has it that there is another round of layoffs this week in brea can anybody confirm that?

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With all the quality/regulatory issues SG has to do something to make the financials look better.

The loss of $30+ million in immunochem troponin revenue has to hurt especially since it is beginning to look like it will be some time before that revenue is restarted.

Only 19 days until QTR1 financials are announced. Won't that be fun!

Mid to end of May

By end of may! confirmed

Rumor has it that there is another round of layoffs this week in brea can anybody confirm that?

Cannot be many folks left. Have to leave someone to turn out the lights and make sure SG gets his golden parachute.

Rumor has it that there is another round of layoffs this week in brea can anybody confirm that?

Strange, very strange.

(BCI has an excellent legal staff and is executing their "changes" in a well organized and planned manner. The local newspapers are not reporting the Reduction in Staff. Obama promised us Change. Looks like the "Old Boys" Network is delivering...)

The "Old Boys" network at Beckman is a group of staunch republicans. President Obama is a democrat. The change Obama promised did not include discrimination against senior (over age 40) workers.

Yes, the Beckman Old Boys network is delivering - job cuts, poor quality and unethical behavior. Certainly nothing to be proud of for either a republican or democrat.

when did beckman get a union?????

There has been a union operating on some sites in Europe since befor 1998
Suggest employees over the pond should follow suit and quickly.

did not inionise, you must be an "ENGINEER

With spelling like that you must be a S.G himself
I am one of the workers that is providing our president and all his men with their exorbitant bonus

did not inionise, you must be an "ENGINEER;

the reason tht manufactuing workers at beckman coulter
unionised is simple,too scared and to stupid,cretins all.

there is no union at Beckman ...
sincelry mr. stupid in BCI manufactuing

when did beckman get a union?????

Are there going to be layoffs in Miami for 2010? What is the working atmosphere like in Miami at BCI?

Just highly paid professional cheerleaders, ..passing through. Pop up somewhere else later with a "plan" and a "goal" and an exit strategy. !!!! Think they are any different anywhere else,?? any different from the bankers, mortgagers and brokers?? NOT!!!

Brutal year; any news whether the Oct 17th round (another 29 layoffs Brea/Fullerton) is it for 2009? More monthly rounds scheduled for 2010 without 60 day advance notices? Will separation package change in 2010?

Now Scotty is whining about the 40 billion the Gov
will charge the medical device industry. But didn't
hesitate laying off thousands.

PAYBACK is a B....!

And the cutbacks are expanding. People in Indy are starting to get the axe. I was let go this week. Last week another supervisor was let go. There are rumors that some of the people who moved from California are getting to the end of their one year requirement to get the money to come to Indy. Some whose homes have not sold in CA are going back home.
For those that think Beckman is such a good company have not been visited with the the Lean Six Sigma gastapo. Reduce waste ie, reduce inventory, people, and plants.