Comments on: What’s Ailing Johnson & Johnson?

By: J&J MAN

J&J MAN — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:08:12 +0000

J&J HR never help you out either. They are the worst company and the public does not even know the truth. I went to HR because my manager kept talking about how my butt looks so good. Do you workout everyday? They get away with anything. I think the day is coming for J&J to fall

By: Kelley Ehicon

Kelley Ehicon — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:08:22 +0000

I have heard it all while at JnJ too. I have been asked how much child support I get monthyl(at review time). I have been asked if I’ve had plastic “surgury (by my manager). And when I went to HR to tell them how my manager told me that “they never fire anyone because they make it hell & people leave on there own — HR guessed who the manager by name & told me that had already heard that & wanted to know if I had anything else. In other words, when I reached out to JnJ HR — it fell on deaf ears. Manage it or manage out.

By: k g paganis

k g paganis — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:18:07 +0000

Is ity true that teh J&J India and China produced sutures, by their subs, are shipped tothe Belgium Logistics center, baptized european and sold in europe as the real thing????

some former employees certainly know…

By: Former Employee

Former Employee — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:45:13 +0000

I too worked for a J&J company and can say that the comments from the other posters who have been on the inside are true. J&J is not the company their Credo describes. It is not just corporate that is messed up. I only have experience with one of the companies I worked for that is part of the umbrella of companies and J&J completely messed up that company as well. I can only assume the other 100+ companies they own are also messed up or will be. The company I worked for had kept the family oriented pro employee culture from the former owners for the first couple of years after the purchase, but then slowly the culture died and it became cold and corporate.

By: harleyrider 1978

harleyrider 1978 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:33:45 +0000

I hope rwjf and j and j go bankrupt with the fraud they have used and buying off state legislatures to pass smoking bans against the people so that they can profit even more by selling nicotine patches to the public thru state funded cessation programs……….let alone the constitutional rights of the smokers being trampled on in the name OF PSUDO-SCIENCES and the skewed smoking studies they pass off as fact………these studies cant even pass pier review by their own scientists…meanwhile everyone involved in selling false science to the public to further a socialist agenda is guilty of out right TREASON………nobody should believe any supposed scientific study due to the years of skewing the results and falsifying the same reports to achieve a politically correct agenda…………cdc,ama all the pharmecutical companies and smoke free kids ,acs ala the list goes on……..now they are after people of obesity and workig hand in hand with news and media outlets to create hate against people of obesity besides the discrimination smokers have faced becasue of false science.
The day will come when these groups will be held legally accountable for denying people their rights and liberty besides the criminalization for what they have always done or been.
America is not a land of STALIN where we must yield to big govmnt or to the whim of big pharma………we are a free people where individual liberty is the foundation stone that builds greatness for AMERICA not for the benefit of large corporations or political groups………stand up fight oppression and be free again.

By: Justme123

Justme123 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:18:40 +0000

everything that is being said here is 100% accurate. With regard to the discrimination.

Before I worked at JNJ, my friends joked that I was “to the right of Rush” I was so conservative. However after JNJ I realized that no matter how hard i worked, no matter what I did, i was always going to be seen as a person of color, and more specifically a woman of color, and judged based on all of the stereotypes that come with such, as opposed to my individual value.

That said, I came to the realization, that if excelling at work is “this hard” for me, someone highly educated and experienced, how much more difficult it must be for someone that may be from a less than optimal background that is trying to turn their life around. How difficult it must be to be judged based on ones effort today for so many people.

I openly experienced words (”N), jokes about blacks etc. while working at JNJ. Can you imagine how hard it becomes to come into work everyday, when you are the butt end of a joke that you have no control over? To try to gain respect based on your work but the only thing that ever rises to the top is the one typo you make that immediately gets categorized as “those people not having a good grasp of the English language”? How hard it is to become a part of a team?

Invariably when everyone goes out for drinks after work, I would find an excuse to not be there and not feel uncomfortable around maybe one or two people that I had overheard making these jokes. Then I would get Labeled as “not a team player”.

Then to add insult to injury after I went to HR to make them aware of this situation, the campaign started. A decline in performance reviews stating inability to work well with others, character smears of promiscuity to damage credibility, refusal to support and implement the same policies for advanced education etc.

it was a nightmare, and I thank God that I am gone. In part I blame the media. Everyone publishes the articles that show JNJ in a great light. However I can state for the record that I have contacted so many major newspapers, from the USA Today, to the New York Times, asking the question as to why journalist don’t ask the tough questions.J&J advertises with them so the will not risk the loss in income to write the truth

By: opponentsof ohiobans

opponentsof ohiobans — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:36:51 +0000

I don’t understand how this company has been allowed to gather the power that it and it’s “policy creating” RWJF has built. Is our government asleep at the wheel or are they part of the payoff? NO company or foundation should be creating the policies of this nation (smoking bans). And absolutely NO company or foundation should be allowed to push their own policy agendas for their profit. This is corruption, plainly and simply put. Why has there been no investigation into them?

Our group out of Ohio is working tirelessly to try to get someone to do something about this. Help us push for a Congressional Hearing into the wrong doings by J&J, RWJF by writing to your Congressman/woman to demand one!! The more of us who ask to have the corruption investigated, the better chance we have of getting it done.

Sign our on-line petition asking for a Congressional Hearing into the RWFJ, J&J, the bogus SHS reports on “studies”.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/conghearing/index.html

By: Edie

Edie — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:18:46 +0000

Can those of us all around the world who have been wronged by J&J while incompetents remain in office and given fat bonuses file a class action lawsuit? Or better yet, can we band together and sell our story for a box office movie?

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:43:46 +0000

I had seen this website months ago and am not surprised that comments are still coming through. Every comment on here, I can relate to because I too have seen everything mentioned during my tenure under thier “unbrella” of companies. Regarding comment number 1. They did learn something about discrimination, since that lawsuit they have been careful during layoffs to make sure they don’t, or actually skirt around the issue by keeping at least one minority and one old retched employee that may or may not have the same experience but more so to keep discrimination cases at bay. Any “family” of companies that has thier fraternity of senior management rotate through companies every 2 years is pretty screwed up. They take VP from a medical device area and place them in charge of a pharma company, apples & oranges here, to boost thir own with a complete disregard to the end user, the patient/consumer. There is a whole group of people at the top of thier pyramid that is only concerned about thier own pocketbooks. I mean why get rid of people who know the product or therapy whose salaries do not even come close to those decision makers bonuses? The only answer, they could care less about the end user of thier products. Comment # 2, the only time i have seen them do thier layoffs has been in the middle of the holiday season. not only is it rude but they know darn well they are going to do it months in advance why not do it then, instead of waiting to screw up many a good employees holidays? Oh that’s right because they have to make sure the right people are in place to ensure the right things get done just in time for these jerks to get thier bonuses during the first quarte of the next year, you know February, March. Comment # 3, consumers need to know that product they buy from them isn’t for the consumers best interest, they need to cut costs and pay thier own salaries. Comment # 4, thier credo had to have been written a very long time ago by someone who did have that vision. Unfortunately, the board of directors and senior management only care about thier own pocketbooks. The credo in reality is “We care about money, money in our pockets”. Comment # 5, again it’s only about cutting corners and putting money in the wallets and purses who have the power. Bottom line is, J&J doesn’t have one product that is superior to any single manufacturer of healthcare products. Whether it be a medical device, prescription drug, or consumer product. The problem is, is that the average consumer knows J&J as a household name and doesn’t understand the truth. They can buy toothbrushes, baby products, shampoo, makeup, ect that is far superior than what J&J has. Consumers are the one’s that need to know. And trust me, if it comes down to a medical device, thier products are inferior and what the average consumer does not realize when docs use any companies devices they don’t care too much either about quality, again it’s money in the pocket. Before buying, checkout the competition, not only will you find a better product, but you’ll also find a more knowledgable representative along with better customer service cause all J&J is going to send you is a novice, inexperienced representative because once they keep someone long enough to know the product, they will cut them off at the knees to find someone cheaper and inexperienced just to save themselves a buck. Buyer be ware.

By: Herry Budhi

Herry Budhi — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 04:04:04 +0000

How J&J can have good product if the process doesn’t right.
One of J&J factory in Indonesia hired my brother through head hunter, after close to one year process he was decide to work for J&J. He was Factory General Manager of one J&J competitor.
He have to pass of 3 month probationer, during the time he find out that the factory work unefficients, the procurement just looking on cheaper price doesn’t mind the quality of material from supplier, and he indicated coruptions in middle management.
He was stressfull during the period and I just advice to wait up to probationer period in the sensitive case.
He can’t wait and decide to open all the case to management and he lost the job.
How J&J can improve the quality of product and efficient cost if doesn’t want to see the real conditions. Reduce cost is right but should be done with correct process and quality.

By: Eric Pirrung

Eric Pirrung — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:08:19 +0000

I currently work at a J&J plant that was recently purchased by J&J. I have given my all to this company only to recently find out that I along with 340 other dedicated employees will be out of a job. We will be laid off because it is more profitable to send our jobs over seas, never mind the fact that it was the American worker who built this company! The big slap in the face is the J&J company credo: WE ARE RESPONSIBLE TO OUR EMPLOYEES, THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO WORK WITH US THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. EVERYONE MUST BE CONSIDERED AS AN INDIVIDUAL. WE MUST RESPECT THEIR DIGNITY AND RECOGNIZE THEIR MERIT. THEY MUST HAVE A SENSE OF SECURITY IN THEIR JOBS. WE MUST BE MINDFUL OF WAYS TO HELP OUR EMPLOYEES FULFILL THIER FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES. WE MUST PROVIDE COMPETENT MANAGEMENT AND THEIR ACTIONS MUST BE JUST AND ETHICAL….. Well if they feel that taking the livelihoods away from 340 hard working americans so they can further line their fat pockets is just and ethical, they can stick their worthless credo where the sun don’t shine, they don’t have a bandaid big enough for this festering sore!!!

By: Bunny

Bunny — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 01:52:20 +0000

I recently purchased a package of Rembrandt toothpaste; I’ve been using Rembrandt since it was first introduced. The recent packaging change includs not only a totally different box label design, but there are NO SECURITY SEALS on the tube or on the ends of the toothpaste box. The ends of the box are held in place by just a small dot of glue, which anyone could compromise, and the tube has NO SAFETY SEAL over the tube opening. I cannot believe that Johnson & Johnson, in this day and age of tampering, would market a product like this with no safety precautions. I called their 800 number and the person I spoke with requested I return the toothpaste to them; they sent me a refund for the purchase price and also sent me a pre-paid mailer in which to return the product. I will not use their toothpaste again until they put safety seals on the ends of the toothpaste box, like they have in the past.

By: Karen Brown

Karen Brown — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:58:11 +0000

As an x JNJer I am glad to be out from under their lies. In the midst of a layoff (2004) they told upper management that “things” would not be right until maybe 2008. Then they proceeded to lay a large number of people off within a two week time period just at the Christmas Holiday season. While still promising everyone who was left behind that they have a fabulous “pipeline” of new drugs. They have not had a new drug in years. As a Manager I was constantly hiring people to fill positions left open by people who were just fed up. I knew at the time that I was hiring that there was probably a 95% chance that my new hire would be laid off by the close of the same year. Shameful

By: Edie Collins

Edie Collins — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:44:53 +0000

It’s been a bumpy road for J&J, and this is only the tip of the iceberg. I hear that there will be additional lawsuits about risperdal.

The product issues are only part of the issues. There are many internal issues which no one outside of J&J hears about. What about the class action racial/gender discrimination lawsuit? J&J came up with a list of managers who are minorities to show that they are not biased in their hiring and promotion practices. However, are all of those managers still with J&J? Probably not. What about all of the longtime, dedicated employees that have been laid off? That number is probably close to a thousand (if not more), and I hear that more layoffs will be forthcoming in the months and years to come. J&J made a lot of promises to some of their employees about longevity of employment, yet, when income targets could not be met, many employees were laid off with only a two week notice so that the quarter end profit margins would look better. It’s not right, and it’s not fair to take away employees’ livelihoods so suddenly, while the senior management gets bonuses equal to 100% of their base salaries and more. Why can’t they take huge salary cuts to save their J&J family members?