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Cv vice presidents.. do your job





had the RD field ride last year- we ended up at Starbucks for 3/4 of the day, because I have virtually no access here

Believe me, when the RD left you he had a couple of thoughts:

1. What a waste of time (although the RD learned a lot about you and your territory)
2. We are paying this person X amount of money and benefits to sit at Starbucks?
3. Layoffs are necessary and justified
 




It's unbelievable how out of touch they are with what's really going on in the marketplace. Instead of focusing on meaningless field rides and useless metrics, why don't they come up with a plan to tape back together what they just blew up. When is this company going to recognize that our customers don't give an F about what Novartis wants. We need to focus on what they want and need and it's not 20 different people across multiple offices trying to contact the same people. The customer wants one or two contacts tops. I thought things were bad before. But this reorg made things a hundred times worse and set leqvio back 6 months to a year. Most people are having to start all over and create all new relationships so take your field rides and shove them where the sun don't shine[/QUOTE

You are thinking way too logically, and have too much common sense, to be working here.

The folks in headquarters don’t live in the real world. If you ever meet the marketing folks and hear the rationale behind some of their strategies…you’ll wonder how they ever graduated from college or were able to pass a pre-employment drug screen.
 




Believe me, when the RD left you he had a couple of thoughts:

1. What a waste of time (although the RD learned a lot about you and your territory)
2. We are paying this person X amount of money and benefits to sit at Starbucks?
3. Layoffs are necessary and justified

Yes, lay-off the managers, directors and VP’s as well. Too many layers at the company