1. HELPING CHEMISTS FIND JOBS IN A TOUGH MARKET. 2. TOWARDS A QUANTITATIVE UNDERSTANDING OF THE QUALITY OF THE CHEMISTRY JOB MARKET.
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What's the job market like for chemists? Dude -- it's always bad.*
How bad is it? How the heck should I know? Quantifying the chemistry job market is what this blog is about. That, and helping chemists find jobs.
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(*For the literal-minded, this is a joke. Mostly.)
"We would have named ourselves 'P%$^& you', but that would make it hard to advertise our drugs in magazines or TV." or maybe "Bow before us, son of Jor-El."
ReplyDeleteIf the scientists were shareholders of AGN at 300 they're doing fine. If the scientists who now work, and wish to continue doing so, for a lawyer and a guy who both doesn't understand and doesn't appreciate R&D well, they're SOL.
ReplyDeleteSomeone should give those guys smile practice before they take any more photos---and maybe a couple of phonebooks for Ian Read to stand on.
They should dress like a leprechaun and wield a shillelagh. Because they're definitely, definitely an Irish company. If any IRS people are asking. "Faith and begorrah!"
ReplyDeleteI thought that they were leprechaun tax lawyers....can they lead us to their pots of gold? Or maybe those are now in the NYC HQ?
ReplyDelete"Happy face or sad face, we're still going to fire you"
ReplyDelete"Resistance is futile. Surrender, Dorothy!"
ReplyDelete"We promise, we won't hurt you." (CLICK) or maybe "We come in peace."
ReplyDelete"We'd like you all to read this book, 'To Serve Employees.'"
ReplyDeleteHi score
DeleteWe both got suckered...brain or bust!
ReplyDeleteBut if we just lowered our corporate tax rate to less than that of everyone else, everything would be fine. Because races to the bottom can be won, and no one would in turn undercut us.
ReplyDelete"Yes, we're wiser"
ReplyDeleteYou will be assimilated.
ReplyDelete"Proud new owner of an Aston Martin DB9 (left) discussing the benefits of Bridge of Weir Hide interiors over Italian leather options with a fellow enthusiast (right)"
ReplyDelete"Hello. We're Pfizer, and we are indeed riding on the Highway to Hell. Won't you (well, some of you) join us? This handbasket's got lots of room."
Delete(Dr. Lowe suggested "Highway to Hell" a long time ago as a preferred corporate theme song. Don't tell me it doesn't fit them.)
Good callback.
Delete(Man, I would pay a solid $20 for a copy of "Excel and Exceed.")
Drop the Chalupa.
ReplyDeleteI used to think the Pfizer motto was "resistance is pfutile, you will be assimilated"... but with this reverse merger, I think they're better off with this:
ReplyDeleteResistance is pfutile--we will be assimilated.
"The Buchwald stops here".
ReplyDeleteHave you heard of the new 2015 book, "Sold Out" by Michelle Malkin, in which H1b's feature prominently?
ReplyDeleteSold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America’s Best & Brightest Workers
http://michellemalkin.com/2015/11/09/sold-out-how-high-tech-billionaires-bipartisan-beltway-crapweasels-are-screwing-americas-best-brightest-workers/
Also a book excerpt in the New York Post:
http://nypost.com/2015/11/08/how-american-workers-are-being-sold-out/
How American workers are being sold out
By Michelle Malkin and John Miano
"From the 'Happiest Place on Earth' to Silicon Valley and across the Heartland, American's high skilled workers are getting screwed."
I have not read the book, but thumbed through a copy. Will have to read more closely to see if there is any mention of chemists.
If PI's at universities don't get enough American's to fill positions at the wages they offer they will be happy to get college graduates from overseas. Its globalization.
DeleteResistance is futile....
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