Paul will be known as the guy that did nothing in 3 years but allowed planes full of reps and DSMs to head to Spain as a reward for residing in a positive managed care environment and putting the face of pharma squarely where it belongs - we are greedy and shameless and care only about sales and rewards and the hell with all that patient first bullshit mantra platitude crapola - pay me for delivering messages, samples and donuts-some things never change
Yeah that was Tosh' big idea to win back the sales force after his initial bumblings. Wait until he explains that to Pascal next week. They finally get the grinder
I've been to COE twice. It's true, there are those certain territories that always seem to be in contention regardless of the PSS in them - but in my experience that's the exception not the rule. When I've had the chance to talk to winners, there is typically something exceptional and noteworthy about them as individuals, their accomplishments in the previous year or both. It does seem that we all have this basic instinct to tear down others in hopes that it will make us somehow feel better about ourselves. It rarely works in my experience, when I do it I just become saltier..........but then again maybe that's what CF is for.
If that sales rep is that good, they would be winning or in contention yer after year! I don't care how competitive you are and how great your product is. If there is too much work for the hcp and staff they are not going to write it. Path of least resistance! We all want to go home sooner than later, every day. Unless you live to work...
Bullshit. I what you did was so wonderful and special, then why didn't you do it every year? This failed program has been a lottery from day one and survives because it is a free trip for senior leadership and their spouses every fucking year.
Free trips for Band 8 and above is always a bad idea and it is even worse when USA Today publishes their article about how AZ puts patient health first while doing the salsa.
Seriously? You act as if we're the only ones sending top performers overseas. Didn't NNI recently send winners to Grand Cayman and Cabo, and take their WHOLE field force to Denmark? Or am I the only one that competes against a swarm of hot blonde Novo reps that seem to win almost every year? (They show their pictures to the office staff). The whole industry's gravy train is grinding to an end soon. After the thrice annual price increases go away, it will be financially unsustainable for most companies to send 4 field forces and 2 teams of contract reps to each doc. Bitching about some award trip is going to be the least of your worries.
Could there be a worse example of the largess and blatant disregard for the true mission that this fake trip for fake performers - time to blow this up
Hillary could run campaign ads featuring this trip and then featuring how senior executives and their spouses get to attend every year. CNN or 60 minutes would love this story.
Pharma Execs Party in Spain reads the headline. Despite record low revenue and declining profits and amid recent cost cutting, AZ execs Jetted to sunny Spain with spouses and a slew of reps and DSMs - reportedly because they sell a lot of drugs - while many others lost their jobs. When asked to comment on the irony of the situation one exec asked "what's irony and why would I give a shit about others losing their jobs?"
Remember how the press jumped on the bucket of money comment several years ago and how AZ immediately fired the person for saying it. This story line would trump that, no pun intended.
It was pathetic to watch the farewell video to Paul today - his legacy will be the final trip to Spain for a bunch of reps who wandered into the oval of mediocrity due to their placement within the wheel of objectives and landing in the halls of the few buildings we can actually measure. It was all about his jovial good fun sense of self and not a word about the 4 share in Br or the massive glob of diabetic goo no longer floundering at the Fort. It was sad and no one asked a question not even why we bother to keep the wilmington site open
