interesting forum of Merck employees discussing Merck

“Merck: A Catch-Basin of Nitwits, Sociopaths, Dimwits and Dullards”

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“Sociopathic personalites running the company and dominating middle management…liars and cheats…they hire the young and naive on purpose, so as to not have to deal with any criticism or dissent among their carefully chosen footsoldiers…”

“Anybody who purports to be stuck needs to reassess themselves. I decided to leave for all the above reasons…Merck is run by morons and sociopaths and, for me, it simply became a matter of personal honor. I could not work for such a dishonorable company. So I made a plan to leave and executed it. It took several years, but I’m out, and you can be out too, if you really decide to leave.”

“I feel like a human being again…Merck sucks your soul out of you…”

“It is an awful place. I feel like I’m human again too. I’m grateful for having succeeded with my plan to leave (Plan to Win??? LOL). I wish my friends would simply develop their own strategy for leaving too. For those reading this thread, see in the success others have had in leaving your opportunity to develop a plan to leave pharma. IT CAN BE DONE!!!”

Interesting that some (apparent) employee (or former employee) uses the word “sociopath.”

I’ve long thought that in order to KNOWINGLY do harm to one’s customers – as Merck did with Vioxx and now with Propecia – everyone involved in the process, from the scientists to the marketers to the attorneys, would have to be sociopathic.

It’s like trying to understand Nazi Germany. Sure, Hitler and Goering an Goebbels and the other top guys were psychos. But what about the thousands and thousands of Nazi staffers at the death camps? Were THEY all psychos as well?

In any place, at any time in history, it would be HARD to find even one textbook psycho. So trying to gather thousands – who in turn carry out horrific deeds – boggles the mind.

You gotta admire Herr Frazier for one thing: He’s good at getting an army of footsoldiers to carry out unspeakable deeds in the name of… being well?