just to correct the blow post - only MT from the list below was an origin at artus and he was FIRED shortly after joining.

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 23:34.
vela dx
MT
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Thats 4 from Roche, probably more will follow, all an origin at artus, who all moved to Roche, wonder when BE from Germany will follow

So how is Mr. Phillips doing as a CEO. KJind of an OK VP then SVP at Ventana.

How is Hany doing as President of Ventana. He is the nicest Narcisist I know. Does he still pick at the back of his head when he is nervous. Does he still treat Heb employees as shit?

Same gripes ... different day. A workplace is what you make of it. Complain complain complain. Try doing something to make a difference in your meager lives for once! Leave before the FY'12 layoffs!!!

"Please elaborate on this "fantastic success" of which you speak. It appears to be a very well hidden secret from the entire U.S. diagnostic world."

"fantastic success": Roche Indy is growing again and they are in the process of hiring back all the incompetent managements that were previously layoff.

Please elaborate on this "fantastic success" of which you speak. It appears to be a very well hidden secret from the entire U.S. diagnostic world.

"karma is finally catching up with roche diagnostic after 12 years of bad / incompetence management."

Another ex-roche employee who is upset that Roche is a great company to work for and is having fantastic success.

karma is finally catching up with roche diagnostic after 12 years of bad / incompetence management.

BLA-BLA-BLA

JUST DISGRUNTLE EMPLOYEES CRYING FROM THEIR WORK STATIONS.

HAVE A NICE DAY!

You morons are obviously oblivious to what entails the IVD market. And the person who needs to be fired, you still have the wrong numbers. Only reinforcing that you are no one of consequence and going nowhere. I suppose you'll also say we aren't #1 world wide in the IVD market?

can make anything look possible with numbers

Tied for number 1, according to who? Not Boston Biomedical or any other independant organization that has any credibility. Put down your crack pipe, take off those rose colored glasses and remove your head from JP's rectum. Return to the real world! Remember in the roche world of accounting, liars figure and figures lie.

Sorry, 4% growth

No, unfortunately still here but hopeful.

On another note, calling people simpletons and then failing to even quote the correct financial goals is quite funny. I can see why they fired you.

We are tied for #1 in IVD in US as of the end of 2010. That tie is with Siemens and lets just say we'll be the sole #1 by years end. Oh, and we are above both of the financial goals YTD.

Landing on Jupiter should be fun.

Stated objectives by Smilin' Jack:
#1 in U.S. diagnostics by 1-1-2015
16.4% growth in profitability 2011
4.4% growth in marketshare 2011

Cialis Pritchard, Cowboy Boots Brown and a host of simpleton AD's guarantee that:
Humans will land on Jupiter before roche is #1 in U.S. diagnostics.

"stock rise this year is primarily because the Swiss Franc has greatly appreciated against the dollar. Roche's earnings and revenues continue to drop and fall short of analyst's expectations. You obviously are not a financial person if you do not understand these things."

Nice, you use the exchange rate to try and disprove something and then proceed to site numbers that ARE actually directly impacted by exchange rate.

stock rise this year is primarily because the Swiss Franc has greatly appreciated against the dollar. Roche's earnings and revenues continue to drop and fall short of analyst's expectations. You obviously are not a financial person if you do not understand these things.

How about that stock in the last 5 days. Mov'en on up. Must start somewhere. Can't wait to see the negative posts about where the stock was prior to SS, etc......Whats done is done and the pipeline has great promises.

Metastatic breast cancer, HER-2 negative, is the intended use of the product, among others. Roche really needs to go to Charm School so they can learn to make friends with the FDA!

The drug with the most potential in the Roche Pharma line is a possible HIV cure. Brand name is Trinoassatall.

Well, if you must know the FDA did not reject Avastin, they recommended that it not be used for breast cancer, however, CMS (you know, the people who ACTUALLY make the financial decision) said that they will now and continue to cover Avastin under medicare and medicaid. The FDA operates under archaic guidelines expecting every drug to be a "cure all, fix all" and that very reason is why so many pharma giants are collapsing or adding a diagnostic division i.e. Eli Lilly. Personalized medicine is the future.

It is also important to note the FDA never said Avastin didn't work. You'll probably be wrong, again, about pertuzumab.

Roche cancer drug pertuzumab...Roche can not even prove the stuff works!! FDA will reject another recalled drug waiting to happen. try again Roche. How about you just make Skittles instead.

who is AG that is going to vela dx

JP is great. Upbeat and making positive changes. He could be a little less parochial in his selection of executives but with the exception of the Corporate Accounts VP, the people he has put in place are solid.

You are a whack job

so what about the new guy JP - have not seen him mentioned here.

Been a long time since checking. Reloaded bookmarks and this came up. Still see the same bunch of posters, mostly from Indy. It's so funny to see the half dozen unhappy Indianapolis folks posting their knowledge about Roche, especially about SS. God, its so funny to see cubicle workers making reference to anything above their current position.
27 yrs with Roche and counting and i just love it, pays my car payment, house mortgage, kids college tuition, health benefits and i sure needed a few yrs ago with my illness. Thank you Roche for being a wonderful company that leads the field in all aspects. We'll get over the hump in a few yrs once the dozen or so patents in the pipe line come out and the economy rebounds.
Again, thank you ROCHE !!!!

vela dx
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Thats 4 from Roche, probably more will follow, all an origin at artus, who all moved to Roche, wonder when BE from Germany will follow

The street agrees with the value destruction that SS buying spree has spawned-massive decline in market cap since he took the helm! Genetech, once the crown jewel of U.S. Biotech, demoralized under SS. SS choose JS to lead the diagnostics division and his reign of terror demoralized diagnostics that lead to the downward spiral.

How many screw ups will the board allow SS before they show him the door? It is sad that he took 2 great performing Roche companies and managed to run them both down. It is not too late for Roche if the board is willing to take strong, decisive action and fire SS ASAP!

The whole bio pharma franchise that Roche acquired from Genentech is falling apart. Longer range studies are showing for several drugs that there is marginal benefit at extreme costs. Roche's bet on biopharma and Genentech has not paid off. For every $1B they will lose in revenue Roche loses $900M + in profit. Expect "draconian" cuts that will hit thousands of folks globally within Roche.
Focus on your job and be successful to the extent possible under these circumstances but have a viable "exit plan" when and if the axe falls.

Actually it will be a loss of most likely a billion dollars, but if you think that people with "gray" hair are the ones that will get fired you are an idiot. Pharmaceutical reps are not what someone would call "old" on avg. They are entry level jobs mostly. So instead of $6 billion now they'll only get $5 billion from Avastin. It happens. That's the world of pharma. You can suck at your job, get fired (like the disgruntled loser below), and then not get a new job or you can be the best you can be in each situation and use that to your advantage.

roche's genentech division lost with the FDA today so Avastin, one of their cancer drugs, was determined to be worthless for breast ca treatment. That will mean the loss of millions of dollars of revenue. Have to make that up somehow. Get rid of more people with gray hair!! That appears to be the mantra.

Getting rid of people costs is an integral part of the transformation, and in hitting the financial and other targets. Simplify/Focus/Eliminate redundancy and non-value add.

Anyone who works for Roche Diagnostics these days is a fricking loser.

It smells like something alright

Branchburg exceeded all of its 'corporate' objectives for 2010 yet they're still tossing good people over the side...not sure where this cutural transformation is going but is looks and smells like change for the sake of change.

It is a Culture of Accountability. Know the corporate goals. This way when your group does not meet the financials you can blame yourself for being a loser instead.

Good observation... Actually this whole "forum" is a bucket of BS filled by frustrated "people" without a life...

hmmm... this posting makes no sense

See it, Own it. Be the ball, Danny.

. . . the FDA moved in and total incompetence followed.

These were two independent events. Some of the layoffs were needed to reduce the incompetency. CS not the only department without leadership, witness recent activity.

"...stay in step with the times or they pass you by..."

I guess the "new way forward" is straight out the door - hows that for "lean" six sigma??? wait til the next FDA visit... I am sure they will be really impressed

Bad people continuing to make bad decisions. The chance of them being #1 in the U.S. by January 1, 2015 is slim or none and slim left town. 4% market share growth and a 16% growth in profitability for 2011 is almost as big a joke as the roche leadership.

See it Own it Solve it Do it Fire it.... SOS.......

Cultural Accountability. Make it happen.

Layoffs today in Branchburg. Quality and Operations Mgrs and Directors targeted. If you were "lucky" they offered to let you keep your job with a lower level title and pay cut. Others were just let go... This is what "cultural transformation" is all about??? What garbage!

must not be a lot of new stuff going on at RDC, otherwise folks would not be spending so much time on old news like MT>

I just had to re-post this previous post, because it is brilliant and just cant be repeated enough:

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 08/01/2010 - 20:33 -

M.T. finally got his gift! "Resigned" today. What a complete, total, utter failure he is. He has categorically DESTROYED Roche in less than 18 months. I hope that the rest of his cronnies, like J-nti M, and other will fall next. Congrats people of the Indy site, you won!

Dan O, Great call. You have sent a very clear message to the Roche group that nasty, incompetent people will not prevail in leadership.

M.T. hope you enjoy your season of unemployment. Word is widespread in the industry that you are an unfit leader for any ethical type of company. Maybe you should look for a career in trash hauling.

No one smart enough will. MT has no clue how to build a company. He only knows how to bully managers and staff to do his work for him and he claims praise for it. Vela Dx will be a non-starter for sure.