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Biogen Employees That Self-Posted Your Awards on LinkedIn - You're pretty F'd up!

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anonymous said:
It is ironic I am reading this post this morning. I generally stay off this site, but my anxiety about losing my job got the best of me. My husband is an RSD in another biotech company and we were just discussing this very topic Friday evening. I received three texted screenshots from coworkers regarding some of the "winners" that self-promoted themselves on LinkedIn. People are disgusted by this. I cannot begin to tell you that these self-promoters are the very reason the pharmaceutical industry is in the gutter. It literally sickens us to see individual take screenshots of themselves and then post themselves on the worldwide web, ironically using words like humbled. In reality humility is completely void and nonexistent in these narcissistic people. These are the same individuals that generally won't shut up on team calls, constantly trying to make themselves look good. The only motivation is to make themselves look talented even at the expense of being liked. In the end, these posts are on the worldwide web forever and make these individuals look very bad. It may be beneficial for people who plan to engage in self-promotion to try to realize that others may actually be less happy than they think to hear about their latest achievement. For what it is worth, the screenshots that got texted to me clearly went out to many other employees. It is obvious these people are not very well liked or respected.
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Yes, these people are disgusting, BUT this is how you survive in this industry, and most others too. Those that are proficient at shameless promoting themselves survive more often than not. They don’t care if they are liked by their peers or not. As you know, most in lower management are very gullible, not very intelligent, and easily manipulated. These people have become masters at this.

Like them or not, they are more likely to survive than you. This world has become dog eat dog more than it ever has. Enjoy “pharmaceutical sales” (sales, what a joke!) while you can, because in a very few years, AI will end the need for any reps promoting drugs to physicians. You will go the way of the buggy whip salesman. Mark my words.
 




anonymous said:
Yes, these people are disgusting, BUT this is how you survive in this industry, and most others too. Those that are proficient at shameless promoting themselves survive more often than not. They don’t care if they are liked by their peers or not. As you know, most in lower management are very gullible, not very intelligent, and easily manipulated. These people have become masters at this.

Like them or not, they are more likely to survive than you. This world has become dog eat dog more than it ever has. Enjoy “pharmaceutical sales” (sales, what a joke!) while you can, because in a very few years, AI will end the need for any reps promoting drugs to physicians. You will go the way of the buggy whip salesman. Mark my words.
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not true. I’m a hiring manager at another biotech and a former Biogen rep and manager. The self promotion is not a good look.
 




At some point the charade will end. Perhaps at your next job when you’re with your new boss and you try to get in to see a neurologist and they have no idea who you are!! I’ve seen it as a manager. Also, the entire world knows which doctors are prescribing and which ones aren’t. The ones who aren’t have been very vocal!
 








anonymous said:
At some point the charade will end. Perhaps at your next job when you’re with your new boss and you try to get in to see a neurologist and they have no idea who you are!! I’ve seen it as a manager. Also, the entire world knows which doctors are prescribing and which ones aren’t. The ones who aren’t have been very vocal!
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You're right. It is a charade. I wish someone would call out all the names on here and expose these people for what they really are.
 




It was a pretty shitty move for all the employees that self-promoted themselves on LinkedIn.
Does the pharmaceutical industry really need more ladder-climbing, cheese-moving self-promoters? No! These exact people spend the majority of their time on trying to get ahead versus working.

So who is the cheesiest TBM that everyone is talking about that didn't have sales, won a team award but making it look like an individual award by posting on LinkedIn?
 




anonymous said:
It was a pretty shitty move for all the employees that self-promoted themselves on LinkedIn.
Does the pharmaceutical industry really need more ladder-climbing, cheese-moving self-promoters? No! These exact people spend the majority of their time on trying to get ahead versus working.

So who is the cheesiest TBM that everyone is talking about that didn't have sales, won a team award but making it look like an individual award by posting on LinkedIn?
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You make a great point.

Since they “won” as a team, Biogen should have recognized them as a team not as individuals since many didn’t contribute to the award.

Yet again something Biogen screwed up and now all this crass, shameless and fake self promotion. I feel sorry for them.
 




anonymous said:
You make a great point.

Since they “won” as a team, Biogen should have recognized them as a team not as individuals since many didn’t contribute to the award.

Yet again something Biogen screwed up and now all this crass, shameless and fake self promotion. I feel sorry for them.
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If someone did not have any sales then how were they given an award?
 








anonymous said:
If someone did not have any sales then how were they given an award?
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How the story goes is he is on a team that had numbers and automatically gets the award as it is a team award, but he is presenting it as an individual award. Apparently everyone hates and doesn't respect him. Some of his team members are good friends with a neighboring team and it has gotten out to everyone now. I received a text as well and think the LinkedIn post is crazy embarrassing. I guess this guy has no self respect.
 




anonymous said:
How the story goes is he is on a team that had numbers and automatically gets the award as it is a team award, but he is presenting it as an individual award. Apparently everyone hates and doesn't respect him. Some of his team members are good friends with a neighboring team and it has gotten out to everyone now. I received a text as well and think the LinkedIn post is crazy embarrassing. I guess this guy has no self respect.
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People were given individual awards not team.
 












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And it’s not just one person posting but clearly there’s a front running for biggest blow hard.
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This dude is horrible and has no shame. When you deep down know you've done a terrible job and don't deserve an award, how can you even go farther with the embarrassment and self-promote your award on Linkedin? An award you not only know you don't deserve but as an individual contributor, you are dead last.
 




























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