Ditto....But sometimes you just cannot just read the posts here, you need to answer the idiots who think everything is nice & grand at KS. The AMARs need to know if you ain't making your #s, you will be in the sights of your Regional Manager and Mike L. They have weekly conference calls and I know for a fact, they talk about all the reps - successes & failures..... This division is in the red and sooner rather than later, KS will do something to get back in the black.
For me, I am just waiting on a final offer and I will be gone from this nightmare. I can't wait to work for a real medical device company and not wannabee.
Just spoke to four different medical sales recruiters this afternoon and each of them told me that they are overwhelmed by amount of KS employees especially from the Airway Division. Even the headhunters are aware that things are bad here.
Going to say some prayers & write letters to Santa, the Tooth Fairy & even the Easter Bunny to help me find a new gig!
Yeah, you think they are overwhelmed by all 30 of them.
My God, poor head hunters must be working over time dealing with the overwhelming massive head count moving from this division.
Jackass!
No Mr. Idiot..You are the Jackass....Read my statement, the headhunters were overwhelmed by the recent amount of KS Employees' Resumes from all divisions. Three out of the four told me they had recently seen 10+ just from AMARS.
Do us a favor.....Find a bridge & jump!
"Especially from airway". Remove foot from mouth.
Who is the Jackass now.
Just for the record, my idiotic regional manager calls us all "AMARS"....There are more important things to rant about here than our titles - AMARS, Account Managers, Sales Representatives, AMAEMs, etc.....Does it really matter. I think the original author was just trying to express how shocked he was when the recruiters he is dealing with had so many resumes from the company & our division.
To me I am not suprised, life is too short. Just do your job, collect your paycheck, try to make your # and if it is in the cards, a better position with a real medical device company will come your way.
Time to leave for Hell...Oops, I meant work. Have a good one.
My RM has never stopped emailing us AMARs. Is that person suggesting we are NOT Airway reps or don't work at KS? Why would anyone even be ON this feed if we didn't work for this Tool of a company?
ML referred to us as AMARs just last month. Who cares what our specific titles are? Be more concerned with how we are going to even exist after our Q4 numbers and end of year numbers suck ass. Oh, can't wait for an NSM. Are we even having one in Jan?
Rumors are flying that we will have a NSM where ML & our top notch Airway Marketing Team will show us numerous power point presentations to put a positive spin on the division's lousy numbers. There will other presentations on our pipeline of new products that will probably won't be released until Q3.
Hey Mikey, instead on spending millions to put on a horse & pony show to pat yourself & your crack management team on the back. Why not give the salesforce a Xmas bonus so that I can have some $$ for my kids' presents. YTD, I am not making my numbers and if it wasn't for repairs, I wouldn't be getting much of a monthly commission check.
Com'on don't you know the "MO" of KS. They have already budgeted for a NSM. Holiday Bonuses were not. So more $$$ will be wasted on hearing the KS BS and listening to the koolaid drinking management & marketing teams.
Oh! Do we get to hear Karl Christian Storz speak again??? Still don't understand how Karl Storz's NIECE (who's last name was not Storz after marriage) all of the sudden became "Storz" again and now her son happens to not only have Karl's name... but also the LAST name of her Maiden name. WEIRD scandal there or something. I think all of the women in the US should wear open toe shoes for the NSM, LOL! Screw this place. I've had 3 interviews and each phone interview goes the same way, "You have only minor capital sales and we are looking for someone that sells larger items than portable Anesth devices".
I either need some REAL leadership (not ML on a speakerphone) or I need a real job... neither of which I seem to be able to get.
How many amars are under quota? If so how many are on plans? What is management and hr telling them?
Stop the bickering....I just want to wish all my fellow KS Employees on the east coast a safe time during the upcoming storm.
Can't believe that these same posts are on here. Marketing has ALWAYS clearly sucked. Why are you STILL working as an AMAR? Being a former AMAR, this is ridiculous... Find another job already. These posts are like Groundhog Day... "Marketing isn't there and management sucks, blah blah". Guys, just LEAVE. ML and the crew have ALWAYS been hanging on by a string... Stop complaining and START INTERVIEWING! End of f'ing story. Reading this it looks like a lonely wives club. LEAVE and land a real device job.
Believe me I have been trying to find another gig, however many of the recruiters know the real story hear at KS Airway. Been meeting with one of our competitors and hopefully that will turn out better for me.
What really burns me is that my RM has mentioned this blog several times either during ride-a-longs or on a conference call, so we all know management/marketing is reading these posts. If we follow the 80/20 rule with 20% of these posts being true, what still bothers me is that management or marketing hasn't done anything to change and make this division better. 2012 has sucked and I know quotas for 2013 will be even worst. The enviroment at Airway is scary and our future is unknown.
The real story is you should not be in sales. You can't sell product to customers or yourself to a recruiter. If you think things are going to change because a few weak reps are complaining on cafe pharma you are a bigger idiot than your post make you seem. It's ok though it is not your fault lets blame it all on marketing . What you need to do to fix the biggest problem.. is look in the mirror . Now go eat a box of chocolate and cry yourself to sleep.
This must be Mike L, one of the idiot RMs or maybe a member of our crack marketing team....Besause they always blame the sale force for the Airway division's failures. Do not forget the ole saying, what comes around...goes around. I hope Mrs Storz wakes up & cans the entire management / markerting team for Airway. Just had a great idea, instead of writing to Santa for a nice present, I am going to write Mrs. Storz a letter and let her know of the failures of her beloved airway divison.
