Being forced to room with someone at meetings is so degrading and dehumanizing

That's because back then the company treated people better, today's Elitist Culture at Pfizer resembles more like a cut out of a medieval hierarchy, with a clueless, inbred ruling class and a flock of peasants.

Back in the day when we all worked hard it was easier to ignore subtle things like a half naked, snoring stranger in your room in the morning

Well said.
 




Well said.
Oh we're complaining about THIS crap again? Well, I have some news: based on the issues with Celebrex, and what I read in a ZS Associates report, starting in 18 months, about a third of us (and most KAMs and RMs) won't ever have to worry about roomies while working for Pfizer.

We're focusing and complaining about petty BS when something much, much more serious is starting to form. Do your homework, people!! Senior level marketing and other HQ-types are gearing up the huge, expensive non-personal promotion campaigns for launch in 2016.

Anyone wanna guess why?
 




A scientific research consensus has determined that those employees who have no issues with being assigned same gender roommates at meetings are homosexual or latent homosexuals.
 




Non personal campaign...no need for hotel rooms...sounds like pharma has finally heard about this new thing called the internet and i-thingys that the new young docs like a lot...
 




Non personal campaign...no need for hotel rooms...sounds like pharma has finally heard about this new thing called the internet and i-thingys that the new young docs like a lot...

Most honchos here came up during the glory days of reach and frequency, when Mobile phones weighed a pound and Al Gore was still hatching his internet idea.
 




















Even fonder memories of being in your mid 20's and having to room with a geezer in their late 50's who for some reason was not in the Masters Program.

Wow. When those guys get up in the middle of the night to piss they get it ALL.OVER.THE.TOILET.
 








These poor saps just don't get it. But they will, when that 10am call comes next Spring!

Its funny. Look at the original posts in this thread. Notice how so few respond now, as compared to a few years ago? Many of the original whiners hit the bricks. If they didn't land at Otsuka or a small Japanese company, they're probably contract.
 








Its funny. Look at the original posts in this thread. Notice how so few respond now, as compared to a few years ago? Many of the original whiners hit the bricks. If they didn't land at Otsuka or a small Japanese company, they're probably contract.

Two years from this day, occasional roomies will be the least of our Pfizer-related problems.
Clock it.
 




















I think I speak for everyone at this company when I say that this is something that is just reprehensible. Not just at training, but at regional meetings as well. Nothing says "f-this" like flying into NY from the west coast, getting to the compound at 11PM and opening the door to find a complete stranger snoring away in his underwear.

I've even asked to pay for my own fucking room with a personal card and they won't let me do it! Think about that- a place of business turning down profit just to keep us cooped up with other co-workers and not having a single minute of personal time or space!!

Is this seriously a cost cutting move or just some behavioral science initiative attempting to make us more submissive and beaten than we already are? Somebody should sue their asses for emotional stress or violation of privacy or sexual discrimination. I'm willing to try it. I'll just have to document the fact that they won't let me get my own room when that place has a couple hundred vacancies in it and I'm willing to pay for my own.


Your pitiful! Another effeminate,bed wetting,beta male who has a sense of entitlement. No surprise the industry is sinking like a rock.
 




Your pitiful! Another effeminate,bed wetting,beta male who has a sense of entitlement. No surprise the industry is sinking like a rock.

The girls wrecked the industry, not the boys. All the "bow down to the working mother" crap is what polluted everything.

Most guys don't give a shit if they have to share rooms. Its the whiny, bitchy, self entitled women who expect the world to bow down to them. "I need a single room so I can call home at night and talk to my kids" blah blah blah