"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.

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

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!

I seriously doubt anyone would be interested in LIFE once they have a look under the hood. Lucier has no real vision for the future, and no one at the company respects his leadership or his team.

Miss MD of course. No PE will buy LIFE at this price.

"What in the world would EHS know...."

Cant speak for the EHS in the various other Life campuses, but the one at Frederick could keep you up to date on the soap operas.

What in the world would EHS know....

No one is stopping business end rumors from being posted, if you dont like the other stuff DONT READ IT!

Can all of the reality show stars of Frederick just shut the F up for a few days here?! Would like to hear from someone in business excellence or ehs what is happening behind the scenes with the life corp purchase? People from there shared accurate info on here so far. Our company future and jobs more important to everyone than who sucks or is cool at Frederick. Morons.

"Rod is a cool guy. Stop the BS"

I'm not refering to him, your right he is a cool. The one I'm talking about is not even a supervisor.

Rod is a cool guy. Stop the BS

See post here weeks ago. Leak out of business excellence group thermo fisher out blackstone in. Someone here said ehs leader same information. News say same thing now. Operations information accurate as they have pulse of where things go. We've going private.

Nah! LIFE is too expensive at this price

Real world alert !! Your behinds are being sold off..........Yes! The sale seems to be on !

"Who is mh?"

Another HR rep.

Who is mh?

"To everyone one in Bay Area stop shoving union pamphlets on my desk and stop the union talk. Union would do no good for us. Already our company in advance planning to move stuff to china. Unionize will just move our jobs faster than they already plan. So stop with the union planning and explore. Dumb idea b"

A union couldnt do any worse then how things are currently run. It's a well known fact that Life Tech favors foreigners as it is.

Yippie. My two leaks in ops have proved right. Thermo off table weeks ago. Like we heard from both department heads. Will be private buy.

To everyone one in Bay Area stop shoving union pamphlets on my desk and stop the union talk. Union would do no good for us. Already our company in advance planning to move stuff to china. Unionize will just move our jobs faster than they already plan. So stop with the union planning and explore. Dumb idea b

Looks like this deal may still be on. LIFE is up to 63 / 62 in after hours trading in heavy volume. Has been moving up from 57 since Thursday last week, also in heavy volume, short squeeze? Maybe not this time, I think GL wants to get paid, anyone know anything?

"hv is hot???? omg.... first job for ya is it? mh is way hottah!!!"

My bet is HV is a closet lesbian, probably stands up to piss too. I despise that bitch.

hv is hot???? omg.... first job for ya is it? mh is way hottah!!!

GL will be the chairman, no longer CEO.