There are no good ways to tell someone they are losing their job, and Sanofi-Aventis (SNY) has found a new one: Today, its drug sales reps had to call one of two teleconference lines. If you were scheduled for the 11 am call it meant you got to keep your job. If you were one of 1,700 or so who got the 11.30 a.m. call, well, good luck. (It was not clear whether the call times applied company-wide or only in certain geographies.)
The layoffs are not news — they were announced in October — but the lottery-like phone number system is. Sanofi staffers were not supposed to know that the first call meant you were retained and the second not, but they figured it out several hours before the call on Cafe Pharma, the online gossip site for drug industry workers. During previous rounds of layoffs, Sanofi’s managers had made individual calls to all staffers to tell them personally whether they were being retained.
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