NVS Oncology

What about Oncology position in Nashville?

 

Bruhahaha! Go for it.

 

Note: TN Oncology is the big player in TN and 80+% of the biz in onc is from them. Novartis is currently locked out.
You will hate the job..."Why aren't you making more calls?" "You must find a way!"

"But they tell us to leave because we are Novartis reps..."

 

Amazing! Same clueless direction from MS abl and same customer response.

 

It's been quite on this thread lately! It can be that we are all out seeing all those docs that don't see us anymore!! Did the meetings last month motivate all of you to go out there and detail, detail!!!!!!? I think not!!

 

Hasta la Vista, Baby! McKinsey is in and evertone else is OUT! Have fun as your jobs get shipped th Hyderabad. We can only hope that the inept creatans that run OBU development are shown the door along with the rest of you poor bastards. But look on the bright side...you loss of livelihood will better serve the Executive compensation pool. Epstein and Jimenez can look forward to another banner compensation year that Wall Street will laud. $60B in revenues off of the backs of continued operations cost reductions (i.e. Your JOBS). Have fun trying to sleep at night as you freak out about making your mortgage payment as Joe and David take the Novartis G5s to Zermatt for a weekend of Champaign, smoked Salmon and cheerfulback-slapping. Auf Weideshun!

 

Gleevec going Generic. This ship is taking in a lot of water.

 

Layoffs at Thanksgiving. Really sucks.

 

Really who gave you the clue. Just do not guess and post.

 

Happy Holidays from The Swiss Nazis at NVS Oncology!

That holiday card in the mail just might be your pink-slip! With the usual layoff right around the corner just like the holiday season NVS again will reward its loyal oncology sales reps with the news that u are now unemployed.

I know its bad timing but what the hell, lets start the new year at the unemployment office and join the millions of Americans who get canned because their company isn't making enough
profits too line the higher ups greedy little pockets.

Sad but True!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

So please share with us where you get your facts from? I have been through a Pharma layoff before and they aren't announced via a webcast!

 

Hem 4 Expansion announced last week. Twenty new positions on boarding in January. This in the face of the Oncology Division's largest LOE since Zometa. Keep screaming "THE SKY IS FALLING" Chicken Little. In the mean time we'll just keep enjoying our time working for the best division at Novartis in the best specialty. That will provide new opportunities when a downsizing does come. BTW the average time someone with Oncology Experience is out of a job is less than 2 months.

What's the matter Skippy? Tried to join our exclusive club only to find out that you don't have what it takes to be an Oncology Rep? That's what I figured.

 

Great news.

 

If you're so worried, go out and sign on with another Oncology company. The market is hot right now with new product launches and new indications. We're probably all receiving at least one recruiter contact a week. If you're not, you should be.

And given how much job market movement there is, all the attrition we're seeing only helps reduce the sales force naturally. There's several area teams with multiple vacancies right now. Leadership is waking up to this, as mentioned on the call on Monday. They mentioned "salary reviews" more than once. Funny to think about it, but those that left for more money may help get you a raise.

And if you leave for anything less than a 15-20% raise you're making a poor decision. Your risk premium should be much higher than 5-10%. You're leaving the devil you know for another company about which you really know very little.

 

If in fact the year end lay-offs are true, considering the consensus is that this is Novartis' MO, is there at least a happy severance to look forward to?

What was it for the other years prior?

 

Not going to happen. sorry no lay offs . Keep dreaming.

 

Ya ya ya, this company is cheap, they kept my quarter bonus. I know I had to acknowledge electronically that if I leave before the pay date they will not pay, that was one sided acknowledgement sent to me and I had no say on it. I worked for the whole quarter and then couple of weeks of the next quarter, they did not pay any thing for my full quarter bonus. Only company I ever worked who did this. We are not multi millionaire CEOs we are just an average american working hard for our family and then such unprofessional gesture really affects us. Hope Novartis changes its rule in future and no one is denied the bonus. Sucha a big company and so cheap gesture.

 

This company gets worse by the minute! I can't wait to see what they have to say about San Antonio Breast meeting. Good information coming out about the competition. What will be the spin they put on it?!

 

Thanksgiving came and went. No news. Rapidly approaching the holiday shutdown. Very quiet.

Was someone's magic 8-ball not working properly?

 

I never understood it - shit head managers keep their jobs - shit head reps keep theirs. It's amazing. Investors have no idea how little Reps really work - and everyone pretends they are - even when they know different. Strange how MDs even let Reps in - I wouldn't do it. I was clinical...in a way (MSL) - a job that kept my interest, but I decided to take a different path and job. I couldn't reconcile the demand management put on doing the job - but turns a blind eye to the reality of what their Reps face. Other than holding weekly feeding troughs for the herd...in between doing a breakfast/lunch their ain't much to do. Great job in many ways, but I needed to be productive in another manner - didn't care about the awards either...