Hey Morons at the top!

[anonymous]

Firstof all none of you could sell ice in the Sahara,and yet not only do you dictate every aspect of the sales call,but you are so clueless to think that selling in calif.is the same in Jersey,and ALL reps are the same.Maybe if you came down off your ivory towers and spent some time interacting with the needs of reps and docs,we might have a shot at salvaging this company!Until,and if that ever happens,we will continue to sink into oblivion!
By the way,ONE of your stupidest moves that cost AZ billions,was pulling the sales force selling Nexium five years before it went generic,and having the arrogance to think that docs would continue to write it.Companies make mistakes,but PLEASE learn from them.Egotistical morons!

 

[anonymous]

No truer words were ever said!!!

 

[anonymous]

Firstof all none of you could sell ice in the Sahara,and yet not only do you dictate every aspect of the sales call,but you are so clueless to think that selling in calif.is the same in Jersey,and ALL reps are the same.Maybe if you came down off your ivory towers and spent some time interacting with the needs of reps and docs,we might have a shot at salvaging this company!Until,and if that ever happens,we will continue to sink into oblivion!
By the way,ONE of your stupidest moves that cost AZ billions,was pulling the sales force selling Nexium five years before it went generic,and having the arrogance to think that docs would continue to write it.Companies make mistakes,but PLEASE learn from them.Egotistical morons!

A good product sells itself.

 

[anonymous]

Firstof all none of you could sell ice in the Sahara,and yet not only do you dictate every aspect of the sales call,but you are so clueless to think that selling in calif.is the same in Jersey,and ALL reps are the same.Maybe if you came down off your ivory towers and spent some time interacting with the needs of reps and docs,we might have a shot at salvaging this company!Until,and if that ever happens,we will continue to sink into oblivion!
By the way,ONE of your stupidest moves that cost AZ billions,was pulling the sales force selling Nexium five years before it went generic,and having the arrogance to think that docs would continue to write it.Companies make mistakes,but PLEASE learn from them.Egotistical morons!

First, I retired during the 2012 layoff, self identified, got a huge severance on top of my defined benefit plan. In re Nexium, yes, pulling the Nexium sales force off it 5 years before patent loss, was amazing but it continued to do very well.

The pharma landscape is undergoing a huge paradigm shift. No matter whose elected in November, pressure on prices will be worse than ever. Brexit, especially for UK companies, is going to be a nightmare for pharma. Also, right now a committee on Medicare drug pricing is going to recommend far more stringent demands on drug companies to cut prices for Medicare recipients, and I mean cut them to the bone. Pressure on profit margins will be unbelievable. About your statement them being in more touch with the "needs of reps and docs", they could care less about your's or anyone else's needs. It's all about one thing and one thing only...PROFIT. Pascal made it clear that he intends to cut SG&A, i.e. sales, to whatever degree necessary. This layoff is only the start. There will be another, bigger one sometime in 2017.

I have warned my friends that this was coming since 2012. Everyone of them was entrenched in their comfort zone, to much so in fact, to even bother looking to see what was out there. They got to comfortable, and to lazy to even look. Now, as patents dry up and drugs fail in clinical trials (which seems normal at AZ R&D), Pascal will be forced to cut deeper, and cut deeper he shall. It's his job.

The vast majority of you will keep your jobs during this layoff. You will smile and take a deep sigh of relief when you get your phone that you "made it". 99% of you will drop back into that little cozy area known as complacency. This, when faced with a massive cutback, you will wring your hands and moan about not being more proactive. Pascal will be making his millions, and you will be filing for unemployment. Take the time NOW, and remake yourself if you can. At least try.

 

[anonymous]

First, I retired during the 2012 layoff, self identified, got a huge severance on top of my defined benefit plan. In re Nexium, yes, pulling the Nexium sales force off it 5 years before patent loss, was amazing but it continued to do very well.

The pharma landscape is undergoing a huge paradigm shift. No matter whose elected in November, pressure on prices will be worse than ever. Brexit, especially for UK companies, is going to be a nightmare for pharma. Also, right now a committee on Medicare drug pricing is going to recommend far more stringent demands on drug companies to cut prices for Medicare recipients, and I mean cut them to the bone. Pressure on profit margins will be unbelievable. About your statement them being in more touch with the "needs of reps and docs", they could care less about your's or anyone else's needs. It's all about one thing and one thing only...PROFIT. Pascal made it clear that he intends to cut SG&A, i.e. sales, to whatever degree necessary. This layoff is only the start. There will be another, bigger one sometime in 2017.

I have warned my friends that this was coming since 2012. Everyone of them was entrenched in their comfort zone, to much so in fact, to even bother looking to see what was out there. They got to comfortable, and to lazy to even look. Now, as patents dry up and drugs fail in clinical trials (which seems normal at AZ R&D), Pascal will be forced to cut deeper, and cut deeper he shall. It's his job.

The vast majority of you will keep your jobs during this layoff. You will smile and take a deep sigh of relief when you get your phone that you "made it". 99% of you will drop back into that little cozy area known as complacency. This, when faced with a massive cutback, you will wring your hands and moan about not being more proactive. Pascal will be making his millions, and you will be filing for unemployment. Take the time NOW, and remake yourself if you can. At least try.

Wow , got a lot of time on your hands ? Old timer ? Do some of us a favor , unless you have some juicy information about this company, please go back to your bingo games .
Thanks , a concerned presently employed AZ rep

 

[anonymous]

Wow , got a lot of time on your hands ? Old timer ? Do some of us a favor , unless you have some juicy information about this company, please go back to your bingo games .
Thanks , a concerned presently employed AZ rep

To be continued until the next company crisis when they use massive layoffs to solve a chronic problem with Pharma in general and the culture of this company to be specific.

 

[anonymous]

First, I retired during the 2012 layoff, self identified, got a huge severance on top of my defined benefit plan. In re Nexium, yes, pulling the Nexium sales force off it 5 years before patent loss, was amazing but it continued to do very well.

The pharma landscape is undergoing a huge paradigm shift. No matter whose elected in November, pressure on prices will be worse than ever. Brexit, especially for UK companies, is going to be a nightmare for pharma. Also, right now a committee on Medicare drug pricing is going to recommend far more stringent demands on drug companies to cut prices for Medicare recipients, and I mean cut them to the bone. Pressure on profit margins will be unbelievable. About your statement them being in more touch with the "needs of reps and docs", they could care less about your's or anyone else's needs. It's all about one thing and one thing only...PROFIT. Pascal made it clear that he intends to cut SG&A, i.e. sales, to whatever degree necessary. This layoff is only the start. There will be another, bigger one sometime in 2017.

I have warned my friends that this was coming since 2012. Everyone of them was entrenched in their comfort zone, to much so in fact, to even bother looking to see what was out there. They got to comfortable, and to lazy to even look. Now, as patents dry up and drugs fail in clinical trials (which seems normal at AZ R&D), Pascal will be forced to cut deeper, and cut deeper he shall. It's his job.

The vast majority of you will keep your jobs during this layoff. You will smile and take a deep sigh of relief when you get your phone that you "made it". 99% of you will drop back into that little cozy area known as complacency. This, when faced with a massive cutback, you will wring your hands and moan about not being more proactive. Pascal will be making his millions, and you will be filing for unemployment. Take the time NOW, and remake yourself if you can. At least try.

"Take the time NOW, and remake yourself if you can. At least try."

 

[anonymous]

Wow , got a lot of time on your hands ? Old timer ? Do some of us a favor , unless you have some juicy information about this company, please go back to your bingo games .
Thanks , a concerned presently employed AZ rep

What an asshole! Let's hope they fire your sorry ass on Wednesday! My guess this "old timer" probably has a couple of million stashed away while you will be trying to scrap up enough money to pay your bills! Everything the person posted is 100% on the money! We have all gotten way, way to comfortable is this unbelievably easy job! We all work just a few hours a day, and we still are too lazy to bother even looking for something else.

I can just see the piss running down the leg of the above asshole when he DM says, Sorry ___, you didn't make it! Let's hope it happens!

 

[anonymous]

What an asshole! Let's hope they fire your sorry ass on Wednesday! My guess this "old timer" probably has a couple of million stashed away while you will be trying to scrap up enough money to pay your bills! Everything the person posted is 100% on the money! We have all gotten way, way to comfortable is this unbelievably easy job! We all work just a few hours a day, and we still are too lazy to bother even looking for something else.

I can just see the piss running down the leg of the above asshole when he DM says, Sorry ___, you didn't make it! Let's hope it happens!

If you stay here long enough it is inevitable that it will happen. AZ does not want to keep anyone for more than 15 years. Anyone hired before 2002 is not highly at risk. The current strategy says that people become complacent, relationships no longer matter if they exist at all, and younger employees are far less expensive.

 

[anonymous]

A good product sells itself.

That was the rational when the sales force was pulled off Nexium.Then,the a##holes at the top found the MS going south because competitors were coming into docs and telling them that Nexium reps not coming to see you,and only sampling when you call,so why support them?Contract sales team put together and for five years,continued to grow MS.Bottom line is that docs have egos and if they feel a company is taking them for granted,as in this case,they will support the competition.The MBA's and bean counters at the top,don't have a clue except what their consulting companies tell them.Intelligent,educated a##clowns will continue to make same mistakes.Shame that good people are loosing their jobs because of the incompetence!

 

[anonymous]

That was the rational when the sales force was pulled off Nexium.Then,the a##holes at the top found the MS going south because competitors were coming into docs and telling them that Nexium reps not coming to see you,and only sampling when you call,so why support them?Contract sales team put together and for five years,continued to grow MS.Bottom line is that docs have egos and if they feel a company is taking them for granted,as in this case,they will support the competition.The MBA's and bean counters at the top,don't have a clue except what their consulting companies tell them.Intelligent,educated a##clowns will continue to make same mistakes.Shame that good people are loosing their jobs because of the incompetence!

AZ decisions today are all based on numbers and what ZS tells them. They don't know faces and relationships are not a part of the equation. How many and how much does it cost is all that matters.

 

[anonymous]

First, I retired during the 2012 layoff, self identified, got a huge severance on top of my defined benefit plan. In re Nexium, yes, pulling the Nexium sales force off it 5 years before patent loss, was amazing but it continued to do very well.

The pharma landscape is undergoing a huge paradigm shift. No matter whose elected in November, pressure on prices will be worse than ever. Brexit, especially for UK companies, is going to be a nightmare for pharma. Also, right now a committee on Medicare drug pricing is going to recommend far more stringent demands on drug companies to cut prices for Medicare recipients, and I mean cut them to the bone. Pressure on profit margins will be unbelievable. About your statement them being in more touch with the "needs of reps and docs", they could care less about your's or anyone else's needs. It's all about one thing and one thing only...PROFIT. Pascal made it clear that he intends to cut SG&A, i.e. sales, to whatever degree necessary. This layoff is only the start. There will be another, bigger one sometime in 2017.

I have warned my friends that this was coming since 2012. Everyone of them was entrenched in their comfort zone, to much so in fact, to even bother looking to see what was out there. They got to comfortable, and to lazy to even look. Now, as patents dry up and drugs fail in clinical trials (which seems normal at AZ R&D), Pascal will be forced to cut deeper, and cut deeper he shall. It's his job.

The vast majority of you will keep your jobs during this layoff. You will smile and take a deep sigh of relief when you get your phone that you "made it". 99% of you will drop back into that little cozy area known as complacency. This, when faced with a massive cutback, you will wring your hands and moan about not being more proactive. Pascal will be making his millions, and you will be filing for unemployment. Take the time NOW, and remake yourself if you can. At least try.

I have many friends from different companies,sitting at home,because they were not proactive enough to take advice like this to heart.You have been warned!

 

[anonymous]

AZ decisions today are all based on numbers and what ZS tells them. They don't know faces and relationships are not a part of the equation. How many and how much does it cost is all that matters.

You are totally right!Business decisions at AZ,are all black and white,and they continue to make the same mistakes,and what is even worse,continue to take direction from companies like ZS,who also don't understand the business!It's the blind leading the blind!If it wasn't so sad,it would be funny!

 

[anonymous]

You are totally right!Business decisions at AZ,are all black and white,and they continue to make the same mistakes,and what is even worse,continue to take direction from companies like ZS,who also don't understand the business!It's the blind leading the blind!If it wasn't so sad,it would be funny!

ZS tells them and then JAMA confirms. Have lots of reps and just tell them to execute. Bring your lunches and samples and PLEASE do not try to tell me your brand value story for the 43rd time since you started coming in here. Lunch signature out. It works and now there is a study that proves it and the evidence was always there which is why the sales rep profile will always be the same. Pretty rep, smile, signature, script.

 

[anonymous]

Not true here in hospital. We get into our scrubs every day and then sit with all the ICs and CL staff and watch cases together and then muse which clots most likely require a certain coagulation cascade and then together we all decide on which OAP to start at initiation. I am a part of the team and this is how it works over here. Screw you primary care and diabetes reps you deserve what you get - sample dropping cows.

 

[anonymous]

Not true here in hospital. We get into our scrubs every day and then sit with all the ICs and CL staff and watch cases together and then muse which clots most likely require a certain coagulation cascade and then together we all decide on which OAP to start at initiation. I am a part of the team and this is how it works over here. Screw you primary care and diabetes reps you deserve what you get - sample dropping cows.

Oh boy , I would love to shoot I load down your throat and watch your eyes role back with surprise. Fuck off and may your shit catch up to you someday

 

[anonymous]

It was sarcasm you dope. I am in hospital and I have to snicker every time I see hear this from my collegaues.

 

[anonymous]

Not true here in hospital. We get into our scrubs every day and then sit with all the ICs and CL staff and watch cases together and then muse which clots most likely require a certain coagulation cascade and then together we all decide on which OAP to start at initiation. I am a part of the team and this is how it works over here. Screw you primary care and diabetes reps you deserve what you get - sample dropping cows.

If I'm a patient and find out any of you Bozos in scrubs were even close to me- if sue the Doctor the hospital and your sorry ass!