FRX buys Clinical Data

[Anonymous]

You got that right. The trash will finally be taken out at this place. The expanding and hiring of new salesforce is always the time the companies "right size" their current reps. This will all be from the outside and current reps will be downsized, no doubt about it! Get a plan B now.

Working on plan B now. Do you have any idea when this will be going down? Will we have the opportunity to volunteer for the layoff package?

 

[Anonymous]

This acquisition has made me think about Forest's history and how proud I used to be to tell "the story" of Forest. How Mr. Solomon, a patent attorney at the time, started the company. How he shared his personal family struggles with mental illness, as well as his passion for music and the arts with us. How Forest bought the rights to market Celexa when Pfizer chose Zoloft. How the sales force would jump to a standing ovation, swell with pride, and literally tear up when Mr. Solomon took the stage. How many newer employees even know what "A CEO and His Son" is?
Most employees don't remember any of that, and those that do, (those that haven't been squeezed out yet) know that that pride and loyalty and history are gone, and they won't be back. No matter what drug Forest acquires, those times are gone baby gone, so sad.
Also, how excited are the docs (psychs in particular) going to be when we pull another "gotchya!" and stop promoting Lexapro and giving samples before the patent expires, just like we did with Celexa. Do you remember how pissed off the docs were then? It's going to be worse this time. If I wasn't going to get squeezed out for no reason I would tell my docs now. It's really a shame what Forest has become.

 

[Anonymous]

Working on plan B now. Do you have any idea when this will be going down? Will we have the opportunity to volunteer for the layoff package?

News flash....Forest does not offer layoff packages. Don't you remember that from your interview? Forest doesn't lay anyone off. Isn't that great! You work for a company that has never and will never lay its reps off. But....turnover is highest in the industry. What? You don't remember that from your interview? Guess your DM forgot that little tidbit. Get ready for the crap to fly now people. Our lives are about to get a lot crazier and more hectic. Whoever can ride it out stays. Those who don't, well they won't be laid off. They will be the people who get picked off one by one because they couldn't cut it here at FRX.

 

[Anonymous]

Who wants to be treated like preschoolers?

 

[Anonymous]

You all need to go back to Enterprise Rent-a-Car or paychex. News FLash, none of you are sales people. Go get a real sales job that requires you to earn for actual sales, and not just hit a metric of "10 calls a day", 10 calls a day... really?!?!? My post man is more efficient than you. Get out of pharma and get a real sales job, or perhaps you enjoy facing an empending layoff while working as a glorified FedEx driver. It never took any skill to "drive share" with Lexapro. If you took the same reps and asked them to sell a shitty SSRI like Pexeva or a treatment like Emsam, you'd get shitty results. Enjoy your next Lunch and Learn bitches!