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

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Anonymous said:
Since Pfizer legal is too stupid and management is to disrespectful to provide us single room accommodations, then you have to outsmart them. Use their own system against them. The sharing of rooms is no doubt a violation of privacy rights, but it'll take some loud angry minority or rainbow coalition group to get it changed quickly. The forced sharing of sleeping quarters is patently a "hostile work environment" and a powder keg of potential litigation for Pfizer.

Demand an ADA or religious accommodation request. For the ADA, get a doc to fill out the ADA form that HR will send you. The laws are quite strict and HR violates them by demanding the doc letter if your request is obvious and the accommodation is reasonable (but I digressed, sorry). Sleep apnea, anxiety, any sleep disorder du jour will do.

Religious accommodation is that you require solitude to pray all evening. It's none of their fucking business what "religion" you ascribe to. If they balk, let an attorney talk to them. They won't retaliate, so don't worry.

These assholes in upper management are laughing that all of you who don't do this. Think of all the cash they saved, by not doing the right thing initially. They figure that if enough people finally do this, they will only then change this sharing rooms sham. Or figure out that these mass meetings and training are a huge waste of money and do it over the internet via videoconferencing in the comfort of your own home.

http://employerslawyer.blogspot.com/2006/04/requiring-rooming-on-road-caution-from.html

http://www.jan.wvu.edu/media/Sleep.html

http://www.awakeinphilly.org/Legal/ADA/EEOC-EnforcGuidline.htm

http://www.burnslawnj.com/PracticeAreas/ADA.html

http://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap1toolkit.htm
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bumpity bump

This says it all.
 




My room mate at the last POA left his dirty skidmark underwear in the bathroom. I did not know it so when I had some friends to stop by one of them found them and thought they were mine. I was so embarrassed.
 




















At the IEM meeting in Orlando last week I took a crap soooooo enormous that it completely filled the bowl and came out of the water by about 4 inches. It looked like a mountain of poop, surrounded by a creamy brown river. Kinda reminded me of Cleveland, except the creamy brown river wasn't on fire. Rather than flush this masterpiece, I took a small American flag (that came on my IHOP pancakes on the morning prior to the meeting start) and I planted it right atop Poop Mountain.

I then made sure to get down to the meeting room early so my roomie could enjoy my creation when he came back from his morning job. In fact, he atually threw up when he came in the room. He's lucky I didn't have explosive diarrhea.

I believe next meeting I'll be staying alone!!!
 




Here are the best ways to get your own room at meetings. Do these steps whenever you get put with a stranger at Arrowwood or at a national meeting:

1. brag about the fact that you have a gun, and lay on the bed with your hands down your pants and keep saying it repeatedly

2. in the morning, while your roommate is getting ready, piss in his coffee and tell him he needs a good "azz fucking'

3. stick your finger up your ass and ask your roommate if your finger stinks. if he says yes, reply " it should, i had it in my butt"

4. tell your roommate that "he wouldn't make a good hooker" and then yell racial slurs at him that don't match his race

5. ask your roommate if sparticus is on TV that night and tell him that he is about to witness "the erotic awakening of S"
 




Anonymous said:
This policy was clearly put in place for a reason, to lessen the risk that the company can encounter. In the time of its inception, it actually had merit. Back in the days of the Pharma Arms Race in the 1990's companies were hiring people right and left and the immature people right out of college needed to have roomates to cut down on the booze parties and sex orgies that the barbie dolls and Dexter St. Jock frat boys would have. Plus, when this company had 11 different divisions it was a necessary cost savings.

Nowadays, this company is run in all aspects by its legal and regulatory. It has evolved into a repentant and self destructive quagmire where there is much greater derivative risk involved placing people in rooms together than letting the remaining employees have personal time and space at meetings. With the litigious mindset everybody has HR should re-evaluate this thinking. It's only a matter of time until some perpetually offended, entitlement minded individual (and there are plenty in this company) sues Pfizer for discrimination because they can't do yoga and meditate at Arrowwood due to the presence of a stranger in their room.
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Next time I get dragged out there, I'm suing their asses
 












Sharing rooms at meetings is more the norm than the exception, unfortunately. I've been with four pharma companies and unfortunately the majority of the time, I had to stay in a hotel room with another dude. Like someone else said--most of the time, it's not a problem; but it REALLY doesn't make for a pleasant experience.

For all of the "quit whining, you should be happy you have a job" posters: that's the point of Cafe Pharma, douches. To vent about things like this! Plus, when it's YOU that has to endure a few days of very long days, little sleep, stress and then adding to it--having to sleep 3 feet away from a complete stranger...Plus, with a guy or girl that keeps you up all night with loud, sawing logs snoring...Well, maybe you'd complain, too! I had an inconsiderate roommate at a meeting who "had" to fall asleep with the t.v. on. Loudly. Well, I'm not that way; I told him that and thought we had an understanding. Until he would still fall asleep with it on. Everynight. So for three nights, I had to reach over to the nightstand to shut it off. He'd wake up. Toss, turn and sigh for the next hour until he eventually fell asleep--and then snored the rest of the night.

So the solution is to pay out of pocket for your own room ($250 a night for 3 nights=$750)? I don't think so.

I understand for the large, national meetings that sometimes it just can't be avoided--too many reps for too few rooms. But, usually that's not the case.
 




Anonymous said:
I don't see why they DENY YOU THE RIGHT TO PAY FOR YOUR OWN ROOM. That's where the company crosses the line from cost containment to breaching the boundaries of individual rights and privilege as a consumer. I'd rather pay a few hundred dollars to have some time to myself at these 18 hour a day mind fucks they have us go to and they don't let you do it. Give us that option, at the negotiated company rate and make it a first come, first serve basis.
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its all about controlling people. and it really, really sucks because that's really all they care about. Running your life
 








Here's a brilliant business theory...."If you can't do it right, then don't do it!"

Having any meetings you can't afford, is doing it wrong. Making adult employees shack up together is wrong.

It's painfully obvious.
 








Anonymous said:
wait until you see the new policy. at arrowwood they're moving in a third be to save dollars. (Ian Reed initiative)
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Sharing a Queen bed isn't really that bad. It's just finding a fair way to determine who gets to sleep alone. Sure beats a poncho and a foxhole.

Slip into your grown up undies for the duration of the meeting. Then revert back at your leisure.
 




Anonymous said:
At the IEM meeting in Orlando last week I took a crap soooooo enormous that it completely filled the bowl and came out of the water by about 4 inches. It looked like a mountain of poop, surrounded by a creamy brown river. Kinda reminded me of Cleveland, except the creamy brown river wasn't on fire. Rather than flush this masterpiece, I took a small American flag (that came on my IHOP pancakes on the morning prior to the meeting start) and I planted it right atop Poop Mountain.

I then made sure to get down to the meeting room early so my roomie could enjoy my creation when he came back from his morning job. In fact, he atually threw up when he came in the room. He's lucky I didn't have explosive diarrhea.

I believe next meeting I'll be staying alone!!!
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Ooooooooh Lordy!!! This is a CLASSIC!!! Kudos!! Kudos!!! (still laughing my ass off...)
 








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