I hate it all

[Anonymous]

I hate everything to do with this company. I hate my boss, my counterpart, and my pod counterparts. I hate my products, my sales aid, and my computer. I dont hate my paycheck. Now is that anyway to go through life? I also hate going to meetings, rooming with somebody I dont know and having to smell their farts. Is there anything worse than showing up at a meeting 3 timezones away and walking into a room where someone is asleep that you havent met and having to sleep there? I have had roomies that were ok but it is unreasonable to ask us to sleep in the same room with someone we dont know. Roleplaying is also a ridiculous exercise. I can practice my "spill" without embarassing myself in front of everybody. As if you get the time to give these presentations ... ever. But I do like my paycheck. So what I do is enter calls, try to sell where I can, and give the corporate machine what they want. Cant they see this is what everyone does? My feeling is that they are beginning to see that this is what is going on. In the future, there will be only one rep in each geography. they will be measured by dollar volume. They will be responsible for all products. They wont be evaluated on "values and behaviours". I cant believe that I obsess over that stupid book. There will be real sales people and real sales managers. But this will take time to evolve. Maybe then I wont hate it all.

 

[Anonymous]

Very good post and I think it accurately depicts many of us. It would be intereesting to see if we go to the sales model you describe. That is precisely the model we had when I joined this company over 20 years ago.
And you are right. You will no longer hate it all.

 

[Anonymous]

Love this post, agree 100%. This company is going back to basic, though slowly. Right know what is been sold doesn't justify having more than one rep per territory. Don't they see it and if they do what are they waiting? Reclast sales, for example, don't justify the number of reps behind it and so many BRMs.

 

[Anonymous]

Excellent post...Novartis the ball is on your side.

 

[Anonymous]

I hate everything to do with this company. I hate my boss, my counterpart, and my pod counterparts. I hate my products, my sales aid, and my computer. I dont hate my paycheck. Now is that anyway to go through life? I also hate going to meetings, rooming with somebody I dont know and having to smell their farts. Is there anything worse than showing up at a meeting 3 timezones away and walking into a room where someone is asleep that you havent met and having to sleep there? I have had roomies that were ok but it is unreasonable to ask us to sleep in the same room with someone we dont know. Roleplaying is also a ridiculous exercise. I can practice my "spill" without embarassing myself in front of everybody. As if you get the time to give these presentations ... ever. But I do like my paycheck. So what I do is enter calls, try to sell where I can, and give the corporate machine what they want. Cant they see this is what everyone does? My feeling is that they are beginning to see that this is what is going on. In the future, there will be only one rep in each geography. they will be measured by dollar volume. They will be responsible for all products. They wont be evaluated on "values and behaviours". I cant believe that I obsess over that stupid book. There will be real sales people and real sales managers. But this will take time to evolve. Maybe then I wont hate it all.

I feel for you and feel the same way. We all stay for the money. I can't get over the way they treat you here at Novartis.

 

[Anonymous]

I hate everything to do with this company. I hate my boss, my counterpart, and my pod counterparts. I hate my products, my sales aid, and my computer. I dont hate my paycheck. Now is that anyway to go through life? I also hate going to meetings, rooming with somebody I dont know and having to smell their farts. Is there anything worse than showing up at a meeting 3 timezones away and walking into a room where someone is asleep that you havent met and having to sleep there? I have had roomies that were ok but it is unreasonable to ask us to sleep in the same room with someone we dont know. Roleplaying is also a ridiculous exercise. I can practice my "spill" without embarassing myself in front of everybody. As if you get the time to give these presentations ... ever. But I do like my paycheck. So what I do is enter calls, try to sell where I can, and give the corporate machine what they want. Cant they see this is what everyone does? My feeling is that they are beginning to see that this is what is going on. In the future, there will be only one rep in each geography. they will be measured by dollar volume. They will be responsible for all products. They wont be evaluated on "values and behaviours". I cant believe that I obsess over that stupid book. There will be real sales people and real sales managers. But this will take time to evolve. Maybe then I wont hate it all.

This is not an evolution but devolution from the SOV model and back to where things were 10 -15 years ago. If you didn't see this coming 5 years ago you are blind

 

[Anonymous]

I hate everything to do with this company. I hate my boss, my counterpart, and my pod counterparts. I hate my products, my sales aid, and my computer. I dont hate my paycheck. Now is that anyway to go through life? I also hate going to meetings, rooming with somebody I dont know and having to smell their farts. Is there anything worse than showing up at a meeting 3 timezones away and walking into a room where someone is asleep that you havent met and having to sleep there? I have had roomies that were ok but it is unreasonable to ask us to sleep in the same room with someone we dont know. Roleplaying is also a ridiculous exercise. I can practice my "spill" without embarassing myself in front of everybody. As if you get the time to give these presentations ... ever. But I do like my paycheck. So what I do is enter calls, try to sell where I can, and give the corporate machine what they want. Cant they see this is what everyone does? My feeling is that they are beginning to see that this is what is going on. In the future, there will be only one rep in each geography. they will be measured by dollar volume. They will be responsible for all products. They wont be evaluated on "values and behaviours". I cant believe that I obsess over that stupid book. There will be real sales people and real sales managers. But this will take time to evolve. Maybe then I wont hate it all.

These cheap ass motherfuckers make you share a goddamn room with someone? Holy dogshit, that is tacky as hell.

 

[Anonymous]

the problem is that over the years the hiring of true business and sales people was replaced with nitwits and cheerleaders right out of college that didnt have a clue how to do the job. They also took no pride in their work and had to be "managed" every hour of the day to make them somewhat productive. Management doesn't trust these idiots to actually do the job without this supervision and everyone has to be treated the same in big corp. So the manager has to ride with you as much as them and has to justify their job by "coaching" you.
Novartis created this and they will pay the price.
Those of you that have been around long enough remember when a career mass market rep. was a valued and respected asset to pharma companies. In todays environment, most of the managers are threatened by that kind of efficiency and business savvy and would rather have a rep. they can browbeat into their way of doing things.

 

[Anonymous]

Great post. exactly how I feel.