Company Car or Car Allowance?

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Anonymous said:
Lots of defensive words. You may need a break from your great job.

Never had to drive a Malibu . I Have worked for small and big companies and win awards. I've also never worked for a cheap ass company with only car allowances. I can guarantee that your salary is not improved by getting a car allowance. In fact, it's likely less as you don't get the perks of the company car. Good luck ass face.
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You "win" awards? Or you "won" awards? LOL

Now I know you're full of shit. Because if you were honest, which you clearly are not, you would know that MOST people make out like a bandit with car allowances. Maybe not all, which apparently you did not, but I did and many others. You have no facts to back what you just said and again, if you want someone to pick you out a car for yourself and wipe your ass for you, then so be it. I don't personally need to be told what to do or what car I should drive. Choice is a cool thing. Maybe your car wasn't a Malibu, maybe it was a Ford instead with cloth interior and an AM/FM radio and 8-track car stereo. Usually it's the bottom of the barrel piece of crap cars that are stripped down to basically nothing....If you like that sort of thing and enjoy waking up every single day hopping in your "great" car to make calls, then so be it...I personally don't....Since I spend the majority of my time in my car and it's my office, I personally want to choose what I drive around in and not be handed something to me and that's it..I usually average an extra $200 or so a month with my car allowance. It probably would be more if I had gotten a hybrid or a car with better gas mileage or even purchased one that had a few miles on it instead of brand new.... but I'm happy with my selection and my family is too...

The "cheap ass" companies you are referring to because they provide a car allowance are also the ones that pay the most bonus. So keep on making your 20-30K at plan and I will continue to rake in 40-50K at plan...I'd much rather my company take that extra money (from not offering company cars) and put that extra money where it truly belongs - with the salesforce

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large territories when I interviewed a few years ago, NO Company Car! I want a Company car. The territories may be smaller , though, with this new drug. I'd be interested if a smaller territory. They will pay up to $125 K though base from what I heard.
 






Anonymous said:
I worked in big pharma and small pharma and all three of my prior companies offered a company car. Always crappy cars with little selection. Since coming here a little over a year ago, I LOVE having the base car allowance and the variable mileage component. Averages exactly $1,281 per month for me. This gives us flexibility to choose the cars we want. I can buy a kick ass car and still cover my gas, insurance, maintenance and upkeep and drive the car I want and like. I can also buy a used or cheap new car and actually make money on the deal. The care allowance is not taxed. Who in the hell would want a company car and the crappy company car choices that come with that.

From someone who has had co cars for 15 years before I came here, believe me when I say the allowance is much much better.
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I'd rather have a Company Car!!!
 






Anonymous said:
large territories when I interviewed a few years ago, NO Company Car! I want a Company car. The territories may be smaller , though, with this new drug. I'd be interested if a smaller territory. They will pay up to $125 K though base from what I heard.
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Sorry but the person I had a phone interview with said that we would get a car allowance. So, if a stupid company car is a deal breaker for you, might be time to look elsewhere.
 




































Anonymous said:
How much is the car allowance? Does Alkermes provide a has card? Thanks for the info.
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You get a flat monthly rate of between $575 to $605 (depending on where you live) and then about 14 cents to 15.5 cents per business mile you drive (it varies by month and gasoline price averages). That's everything you get for your car. You have to pay everything else (gas, insurance, maintenance, car washes...). Hope that helps.
 






Anonymous said:
You get a flat monthly rate of between $575 to $605 (depending on where you live) and then about 14 cents to 15.5 cents per business mile you drive (it varies by month and gasoline price averages). That's everything you get for your car. You have to pay everything else (gas, insurance, maintenance, car washes...). Hope that helps.
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You can't be serious. If that's true, that is hands downs the worst car allowance program I've ever heard of in any kind of outside sales potion nevermind pharma or devices.
 






Anonymous said:
You can't be serious. If that's true, that is hands downs the worst car allowance program I've ever heard of in any kind of outside sales potion nevermind pharma or devices.
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Yeah right. I'm sure you have spent countless hours researching this in your spare time. Ask a rep with ALKS and they will tell you that what they get is more than adequate. Get back to the quintiles and Sunovion board where you belong
 












Anonymous said:
You can't be serious. If that's true, that is hands downs the worst car allowance program I've ever heard of in any kind of outside sales potion nevermind pharma or devices.
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You are a yard. How much is enough for you big pharma clowns? 1k? 2K? With an average of 2000 miles per month that's an additional 300 bucks for gas on top of the 600 bucks they already give you....If you can't find a car for 900 bucks, then you clearly the biggest dumb ass on the planet. Such greedy pieces of shits. Stay where you are and don't bother interviewing, you ungrateful turd.
 






Anonymous said:
You are a yard. How much is enough for you big pharma clowns? 1k? 2K? With an average of 2000 miles per month that's an additional 300 bucks for gas on top of the 600 bucks they already give you....If you can't find a car for 900 bucks, then you clearly the biggest dumb ass on the planet. Such greedy pieces of shits. Stay where you are and don't bother interviewing, you ungrateful turd.
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The poster said car allowance is $575 - $605 per month which is flat rate and includes everything such as gas. How are you coming up with $900?
 






Anonymous said:
The poster said car allowance is $575 - $605 per month which is flat rate and includes everything such as gas. How are you coming up with $900?
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Car allowance varies from depending on the state or metro area you live in, as does the variable gas rate reimbursement. 2-3k miles per month reimburses a few hundred on top of the allowance. Great deal after driving a leased ford du jour for years. Can either lease a killer car, have the company basically buy you a car, or drive the wreck on the driveway to the end of the earth while pocketing the allowance...your choice.
 












Anonymous said:
Kudos ! Here Here ! I second that motion. Dumb ass pussy big pharma reps expecting handouts and cluster selling so they don't have to do anything. They just depend on their cluster mates. So sad and definitely this job isn't for them. They're not capable of doing a job without some big pharma douchebag telling them what to do.
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