Today was the last day of another chapter in my life, the chapter as an employee at PPD.
A little over two weeks ago, after much prayer, thought and discussion, I accepted a position at Medpace and turned in my resignation at PPD. I can’t believe how quickly those two weeks went by. I [...]

I mentioned it in a previous post and shouted about it on Facebook.
I have a new job!
I got the news last Thursday, literally as I was walking out the door to hit the road for my vacation in North Carolina. I resigned my position as a Data Management Associate at PPD and accepted a [...]

Today’s moving day. For the first time in almost two years, I’m moving to a new cubicle. When I first started at PPD, I think I changed desks 5 times in the first year or so, but since then, I’ve stayed put.
My manager suggested to the group that we do some re-arranging, to [...]

I’m in an interesting position at work - I’m the last remaining employee that has detailed knowledge of a particular system. Namely, I’m referring to PPD GCL’s Remote Data Access (RDA), which is the website that displays test results online for clinical monitors, sponsors, investigators, etc. to view. This is the job that [...]

I was a little ticked (and it was all I could do to keep it at the “little” level) at the upper management of my company this week.
First, some background. I work at PPD Global Central Labs (PPD GCL), which, along with our sister lab in Brussels, Belgium was formerly MRL International. We [...]

(I’m trying out this post-by-email thing…not sure how it’s going to work, so I’ll fix it later if things look weird. I have a feeling the company disclaimer that is attached to the bottom of every email will come…)
Ah, Friday! It’s been a fairly quick week, but I’ve been extremely unmotivated the last [...]

I have some tough decisions facing me right now…
First and foremost is the decision regarding if I should stick it out my current place of employment or start looking elsewhere. After some discussion today, I’ve found out several *more* people are thinking of leaving and that the replacement for my manager will be announced [...]

Since I started working at PPD Global Central Labs (formerly MRL International) in March 2005, we’ve had company-wide town meetings once a quarter. At each of these meetings, we’d get an update on how the company was doing financially, among other things. I’ve watched the stock increase, split, increase some more, dividends be [...]

So, I’m a little worried about my company. I have no complaints with my department and my job, and I’m enjoying working for a company like this, with all the perks and such. However, a LOT of people are leaving the company. I’m not talking bottom of the ladder, clerical, entry-level people [...]

Yesterday was the first day of my new job as an Assistant Data Manager in the Data Transfers Department at PPD. So far, so good! My job involves managing data, as the job title suggests. More specifically, I’m responsible for ensuring that lab results, patient demographic information, etc. are clean and ready [...]