Who is the worst manager you have ever worked for past or present?

We had great managers before we took over GW. The trouble started in the RTP when the GW " marketing wonders ".....wanted to try being regional sales managers ! That started "rotation managers " and things went wild.

 

Because its on the job training and most don't care (except for the bigger paycheck). And of course we all know how the co supports development.

 

KF in upstate NY. Ethically challenged.

 

Isn't that the entire company?
Sincerely,
OIG

 

The best were SKB managers................they allowed us to sell, period. Those that didn't were fired on the spot. It was as simple as that !

 

Dave - Central Illinois

 

Sorry, can't find a town named Dave in central Illinois.

 

J. Holland---could not managed a single RAM or NAM. He always had us take our review meetings with Karen H. his boss in the home office. He played the game with the good ol' boys from Beecham after we (SKF) merged with them. They were all young and lacked skills for the most part. (sure there were exceptions, but SKF people were so much better and made much more $$) Beecham knew this, and there was a TON of jealousy. Back when I started with Smith Kline and French, there was Merck, SKF, Pfizer, Lilly, Squibb and the "rest of the wannabees." SKF was a great, proud very professional company, and I feel fortunate to have been a part of it. I still stuck it out through the Beecham crap then Glaxo of course. Finally came to my senses and went with a very small Japanese company as a Director of MM. They did thing GSK account managers walked on water, and I guess we did since they had NO clue what a formulary was!!

 

.......you came to your senses and went with another company.....ha, why would anyone jump ship after making it there ? Ummmmmmmm ?

 

More responsibility-startup division=more $$$$--NOT your typical 5-10% raise. 1 phone interview & 1 at an airport hotel with 2 VP's. asked me if I could get into an accnt and see the founder. answer--"Uh, definitely. He worked with me for a decade at SKF, SB then I stayed for the merger w/GSK. He started his own company and had Medicaid formulary design for over 40 states. I said, "Well, I just had dinner with him last week and his wife was with us. Would you like me to call him right now?" They laughed & asked me if I could start the following week. I said, "Let's slow down a bit and discuss compensation." We took care of that pronto, and two days after getting home, there was a $700 Hartmann briefcase on my porch as a gift. I also negotiated flying 1st class, and having a driver to and from the airport. (no, not a stretch limo--just a nice black Lincoln weekly--for my single call each week.) Ask your current NAM who has Anthem BCBS if he saw me in the lobby. He was shocked. I also had Humana, PacifiCare in San Fran, UHC, Highmark BCBS and Aetna. I also just blew my cover!!! (if older MM folks read this!!) They know who I am. (you work in MM for GSK, you walk on water to a company with 75 field reps and ZERO MM people---I put the division together along with the Natl. Sales Dir) We had a whopping 6 RAMS who took the accounts smaller than my base. The rest of the organizations were not called on. (not necess. when your company has 2 products!) Co. car was a leased Audi. It was a "new life" I had never dreamed of. Of course, living alone with no major expenses, I left in a few years for retirement. How much $ do you need??? It has tripled now without working a day.

 

Rachel w/Sanofi in N. VA

 

Hey Sparky.....this is a GSK site !

 

By far anyone affiliated with GSK managers and executives have been the worst collectively. No wonder GSK is where they are. Furthermore managers from this org. That move to other companies are quickly found out to be poor strategic thinkers, terrible motivators leaders and in most cases fail to produce real results. Just look at how they destroyed Sanofi Diabetes. I don't think these are bad people they are just a product of a company that operates under strict CIA and they never had to learn or develop there skills.

 

" there skills " Uummmmmm ? Many other grammatical errors in above post. Obviously not a college grad and not a GSK employee. Ghetto education.

 

Did the gsk manager get their feelings hurt. Wah wah. Ever heard of an iPhone?? They often misspell things. Also doesn't take a rocket scientist to see how bad management is at this company. Lowest I've ever seen

 

Nope, I'm just a GSK rep who is proud of what I do and of the company. Sparky had many punctuation errors in above and "GSK" is all capitals. Lay off public typing and try not to blame technology on your poor spelling.

 

I agree--I started with SKF in the mid 90's and loved SKF! GSK--awful!

 

Bull........I was around longer than you Sparky. SKF were very polished and professional and many R.Ph.'s.............but like GW , most were cocky and did not work very hard. We were the ass-kickers and you know it......we were the Genghis Khans running through the industry making waves.....we were SKB, and people knew it. Many were fired due to lack of work ethic and lack of sales skills. SKB ran the ship and took over Glaxo and made it what it is today.......a highly respected world-wide pharmaceutical company !

 

No, you are wrong! Highly respected? Highly respected companies don't pay 3 billion dollar fines! SKB management ruined GW! GW was thriving in North Carolina, and almost as soon as the GW-SKB merger happened, the stock price fell significantly. GW was the bigger and more successful company. GW came from the Glaxo and Burroughs-Wellcome merger, both of whom were in NC. But somehow former-SKB took leadership control over time, even though it was supposedly a 60-40 GW-SKB split. Paxil, Avandia, China, my how former-SKB leadership brought the company down.

I've lived in both Philly and Raleigh (& other cities). Philly is by far most racist city I've lived in, and not just black/white, but also what country your ancestors came from. Philly (Center-city) is, or at least was 20 years ago, a dirty nasty city, where no one wanted to live. "Educated masses!" I'm pretty certain that both Duke and UNC rate higher academically than any Philly area university. The Triangle is #2 in the country (behind the Silicon Valley) in PhD's per capita. There is a reason that people from NY, NJ, PA, MA, CT move to the South when they retire, because the North is a shit-hole of a place to live. Raleigh has become a melting pot, with people from all over the country and the world living here. And nobody really cares where you come from or what your race is. When GSK let go 1000 employees 18 months ago, the GSK leadership was surprised that very few when asked to move to Philly agreed to do so. And they have found that 18 months later, they still have not been able to replace much of that talent lost. Simple fact is, it is a whole lot easier to recruit and attract talent to the Triangle than it is Philly. The Triangle regularly rates as one of the top places to live! Philly, not so much.

 

Race riots in NC, nothing in philly. Which place is racist?