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all cultures are different.......not really better or worst, just different. That been said, we can't be blind to many of the realities present in Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico it's been run as a farm by a group of managers with very low education which become "best friends" with any boss assigned to the Island for any given period. This managers consider their position a social club which is only open to their close friends without regards to their capacity, expertise , drive or education. The lower all these parameters are, the better.
We all agree NOvartis has the worst managers in the business with one or two exeptions. In Puerto Rico, Merck, Bristol, GSK, Sanofi etc.....owe their success to the incompetence, laziness, stupidity, allways lost and reactive actitud exhibited by all local managers.
All of them had something in common when they were reps...........non of them worked hard or follow the rules.......all of them took the suck up aproach......becoming the boss best friend or as I prefer to call it " ass kisser" That's the Novartis company culture down there......that's the culture managers have impossed over the sales force and which is presented to the medical community. These are the guys who destroyed Novartis from the inside and the main reason why there are less physicians prescribing Novartis products every day. The reps are just a reflection of the way the managers run Puerto Rico. They do whatever they have do to survive regardless of how inmoral, incorrect, ilegal or shamfull it is.
Now that the boat is sinking, all this "rats" are going crazy trying to hold on to their jobs. All of them have been sending resumes everywhere for the last 18 months because they knew cuts were comming, still, they kept most of their sales forces hypnotized with the slogan "Novartis is the place to be".
In Puerto Rico managers like Victor Arambarry, Frank Ramirez, Jose Hernandez, Carlos Cano & Glorimar Soto constantly reminded reps in public settings and meetings, that they must speak up whenever they need to and expose any situation that is wrong because in Novartis there is no retaliation....... we all know that's a joke......we all have witnessed what happens to any rep who speaks up, specially if it is against a higher ranking individual, curiosly, non of the reps who speak up last longer than a year after they do so. They always get fired by other reasons. In a private setting, all managers reminded their reps that is better to keep their mouths shut in order to avoid unpleasant situations which might draw attention to Puerto Rico and the managers.
Now we have nothing to fear from the retaliation that does not exit.
Lets take Frank Ramirez for instance.......this guy was promoted to manager because he had sensitive information on other managers and the only way to keep him shut was making him a manager....since the first day, this guy sexually harass several reps like- Janice, Marisol, Ideliza (she actually took advantage of that and ended up having a protector), Glorivee etc.....This is the moment to speak up! One of the reps complaint a year ago but Novartis did nothing.......as always. This same guy was known for showing up drunk at meetings, to the point of falling down in several ocations. On his daily routine, he was home aroung 3 pm and already drunk. In several speaker programs the same show took place, falling down in front of physicians. Alcohol abuse and sex addict, bad combination for a manager.......but Novartis don't care.....they can do whatever they want because "Novartis is the place to be"
Seriously, the sadest part about this incidents is that all the other managers knew about them and did nothing, theu look the other way, violating the code of counduct. Anthony Ortiz & Carlos Cano are the only 2 managers surviving the cut, however this violation of company rules has not been attended and both of them are involved in the cover up.
More to come soon
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