Name your favorite Pfizer Blunder in the last 15 years

Discussion in 'Pfizer' started by Anonymous, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:24 PM.

  1. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    The biggest blunder is bringing a drug like Duavee to market, over forecasting with poor marketing and expect ing it to grow exponentially. The sad part is the field force gets punished. The forecasters the marketers and upper management either get appointments, raises or new positions while 50% of the field force is cut.Whats even more sad if you take what all those people make salary wise its still more than what the 50% cut were making. There is no accountability for those who are above a DBm or who are in HQ. Its just, well then, lets move on to the next mistake. Case in point, Amy Jenner!
     

  2. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    AMY! JENNER!
     
  3. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Just as bad as Amy Jenner is her recent hires in her group.
     
  4. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Revolution - massive advertising budget for a flea and tick control/heart worm medicine that didn't work on deer ticks, which exist from Maine to California and from Michigan to Florida.

    They ramped up production at Lees Summit, made a big deal about hiring people to go to a third shift, etc. Complete debacle.
     
  5. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Two competing Presidents (Europe and USA) kept bumping up their respective launch volumes to hold their jobs as one position was eliminated. Additional equipment and shifts were added to meet the inflated projections. A massive amount of product was unloaded on customers who never ordered it. Product did what it was designed to do, so the original sales projections were met. However, 50% of shipped product was returned and destroyed. 1st year profit was several hundred thousand dollars, but one guy kept his job.
     
  6. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Mary Mcleod...
     
  7. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Exactly. I watch my and all our money drain away. Sad spectacle.
     
  8. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Well said. The list of idiots goes on ad finitum. Pfizer sucked then, sucks now, and will suck forever.
     
  9. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    It's true! Pfizer just gets worse and worse.
     
  10. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Hiring Matt Shaulis for Oncology. Glad he is gone.

    Teva
     
  11. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Face it, we were never really very good. We simply had the best products in every class we competed in for a 12 year run and we confused the commercial success with our own value. Then we started buying companies and running off their best people if they didn't conform. The final blunder was running off the sales guys at Wyeth. We still have their products but damn we just aren't that good.
     
  12. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Wyeth reps were useless ! King was useless ! You are useless !
     
  13. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Torcetrapib.

    "It will replace Lipitor!"

    Bull-f**king $h!t!
     
  14. anonymous

    anonymous Guest


    You don't make more money than I do as a pharmacist, no matter how much you whack off while posting on this board.

    We make the decisions to put your drugs on formulary at managed care and at hospital systems.

    Who the f**k is laughing now, schmuck? WE ARE.
     
  15. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    True dat.
     
  16. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Glad I am retired. Left in 2009. When I worked, RPhs were good people and they had the patient's well being in mind. That all changed with all the PharmD programs and the bow-tie wearing nerds they pushed out. These were another type. Very insecure. Demanded to be call "doctors." Worst, they had no interest in patient outcomes. All they cared about was their silo-mentality cost center and looking good for their masters, the accounts who the DOP reports to. So, it you had a drug (a) that was twice the cost of drug (b) but got patients out of the hospital 3 days quicker, this new batch of "doctors" would choose drug (b) all day long if it made their silo look good. Who cares if the hospital lost money because of the decision.

    Thankfully, I got out with 20 years and now work for a privately held software company in Madison WI that is the real master of pharmacy. Both you and the real doctors work for us. Name us whatever you want in your system, but we call the shots.

    Oh, and look around. Most pharmacists are ugly enough to scare flies of shit. And no, you don't make anywhere close to what specialty biotech reps make. I know. I see your salaries on the back end. So if you value yourself relative to some contract primary care rep, well you are still ugly and simple minded.
     
  17. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    Retail pharmacists are fine. They just lick labels and count pills.

    Hospital pharmacists are the problem. They try to be docs but they just read algorithms off their software. They don't think at all. Really a bitter, dissatisfied bunch. Go read their own boards and you'll see a deflated bunch.
     
  18. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    How the hell would you know? You never get to see them anymore.
     
  19. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    I am partial to the "Growing Old" campaign as a recent example...how many millions have we wasted on this, another pet project of Sally Sussman....The same Sussman who pushed Pfizer support of Obamacare with Kindler, which our current CEO has stated is bad for the indusry
     
  20. anonymous

    anonymous Guest

    this entire company is on big blunder.