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not with alkermes but wondering what the previous poster is talking about? Is alk being sold? I hope for your sake it is not Allergan/Actavis/Forest. You will be miserable
 
























Every day I get up and think "today will be better" & everyday something happens to tell me " Oh dear God why did I ever even think of leaving what I had?" From a marathon Launch meeting, that by the way in case no one at corporate knew, launches are supposed to be exciting, invigorating, giving you that "can't wait to hit the streets running attitude" yeah I am sorry from Sunday to Friday was horrible only thing exciting was finally getting to go home. Interesting, our fearless leader, M was no where to be seen first few days, oh yeah he went to take his kid to college because he was the only one that had a kid going to college? hmmm hint as to what we were in for, " do as I say, not as I do". Then once approved your car has become a taxi service for the whole entire home office to parade around with you every week! Okay got through that, thought all could be good & Noooo not possible a lovely email from our fearless leader specifically addressing that the national meeting " will not be exciting, entertaining, or enjoyable" yes you will have time in the evening to connect with families ie 1 hour between session & forced dinner with crap food to decompress. Very nice of him to lay out that there will be individual break outs so we don't zone out in long general session crap at least we could compile our own demise. Can't forget the 4 electives that we MUST choose. Okay first electives are just that " elective" just call them mandatory torture sessions & at least you can be accused of being honest! Those crap electives, at least as described offer no value, selling skills are you even living in the present? You brag that avg tenure is 16 yrs of exp & you offer selling skills? Can my elective be staying in territory and at least generating revenue?
Okay then, Dear Santa my wish is you drop a plague down my chimney so I can't travel that week. Please Santa save me from further torture. Oh I know maybe the fearless leader's Kid has to be escorted back to college & we will be spared him for a couple of days. Okay every one other option is plastic surgery to have a stupid smile permanently placed on our face a we are pushed to endure this crap. And yet one more time they will leave the meeting thinking it was a huge success when in reality every one will be so excited and happy because they are getting out of there. Guarantee they will come back with some crap that everyone learned so much, had so much fun & can't wait to get back to serving their providers. At least I provided them with their closing comment!
 






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Every day I get up and think "today will be better" & everyday something happens to tell me " Oh dear God why did I ever even think of leaving what I had?" From a marathon Launch meeting, that by the way in case no one at corporate knew, launches are supposed to be exciting, invigorating, giving you that "can't wait to hit the streets running attitude" yeah I am sorry from Sunday to Friday was horrible only thing exciting was finally getting to go home. Interesting, our fearless leader, M was no where to be seen first few days, oh yeah he went to take his kid to college because he was the only one that had a kid going to college? hmmm hint as to what we were in for, " do as I say, not as I do". Then once approved your car has become a taxi service for the whole entire home office to parade around with you every week! Okay got through that, thought all could be good & Noooo not possible a lovely email from our fearless leader specifically addressing that the national meeting " will not be exciting, entertaining, or enjoyable" yes you will have time in the evening to connect with families ie 1 hour between session & forced dinner with crap food to decompress. Very nice of him to lay out that there will be individual break outs so we don't zone out in long general session crap at least we could compile our own demise. Can't forget the 4 electives that we MUST choose. Okay first electives are just that " elective" just call them mandatory torture sessions & at least you can be accused of being honest! Those crap electives, at least as described offer no value, selling skills are you even living in the present? You brag that avg tenure is 16 yrs of exp & you offer selling skills? Can my elective be staying in territory and at least generating revenue?
Okay then, Dear Santa my wish is you drop a plague down my chimney so I can't travel that week. Please Santa save me from further torture. Oh I know maybe the fearless leader's Kid has to be escorted back to college & we will be spared him for a couple of days. Okay every one other option is plastic surgery to have a stupid smile permanently placed on our face a we are pushed to endure this crap. And yet one more time they will leave the meeting thinking it was a huge success when in reality every one will be so excited and happy because they are getting out of there. Guarantee they will come back with some crap that everyone learned so much, had so much fun & can't wait to get back to serving their providers. At least I provided them with their closing comment!
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Aren't you guys getting paid the HUGE six fig base salaries? The Bible says, "To much is given, MUCH IS REQUIRED"!!!!!
 






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Every day I get up and think "today will be better" & everyday something happens to tell me " Oh dear God why did I ever even think of leaving what I had?" From a marathon Launch meeting, that by the way in case no one at corporate knew, launches are supposed to be exciting, invigorating, giving you that "can't wait to hit the streets running attitude" yeah I am sorry from Sunday to Friday was horrible only thing exciting was finally getting to go home. Interesting, our fearless leader, M was no where to be seen first few days, oh yeah he went to take his kid to college because he was the only one that had a kid going to college? hmmm hint as to what we were in for, " do as I say, not as I do". Then once approved your car has become a taxi service for the whole entire home office to parade around with you every week! Okay got through that, thought all could be good & Noooo not possible a lovely email from our fearless leader specifically addressing that the national meeting " will not be exciting, entertaining, or enjoyable" yes you will have time in the evening to connect with families ie 1 hour between session & forced dinner with crap food to decompress. Very nice of him to lay out that there will be individual break outs so we don't zone out in long general session crap at least we could compile our own demise. Can't forget the 4 electives that we MUST choose. Okay first electives are just that " elective" just call them mandatory torture sessions & at least you can be accused of being honest! Those crap electives, at least as described offer no value, selling skills are you even living in the present? You brag that avg tenure is 16 yrs of exp & you offer selling skills? Can my elective be staying in territory and at least generating revenue?
Okay then, Dear Santa my wish is you drop a plague down my chimney so I can't travel that week. Please Santa save me from further torture. Oh I know maybe the fearless leader's Kid has to be escorted back to college & we will be spared him for a couple of days. Okay every one other option is plastic surgery to have a stupid smile permanently placed on our face a we are pushed to endure this crap. And yet one more time they will leave the meeting thinking it was a huge success when in reality every one will be so excited and happy because they are getting out of there. Guarantee they will come back with some crap that everyone learned so much, had so much fun & can't wait to get back to serving their providers. At least I provided them with their closing comment!
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Poor thing. I truly feel bad for you. You are very lost. Even worse, you are completely unaware of it.

The main problem is your attitude and perspective on life in general. Everything you describe above are extremely small problems, essentially irrelevant. Look up, "first world problems" to try and gain some perspective on how truly ridiculous and irrelevant your complaints are. Here's what you sound like:

https://www.google.com/search?q=fir...ved=0ahUKEwjg-fm9xMLJAhVJrD4KHXnoCUAQ_AUIBygC

Whatever you look for in life, you will find. If you look only for garbage, that is all you will see. You are surrounded by opportunities and good things, but you don't see them because you are only looking for the bad. What you look for, you will find.
 






anonymous said:
Every day I get up and think "today will be better" & everyday something happens to tell me " Oh dear God why did I ever even think of leaving what I had?" From a marathon Launch meeting, that by the way in case no one at corporate knew, launches are supposed to be exciting, invigorating, giving you that "can't wait to hit the streets running attitude" yeah I am sorry from Sunday to Friday was horrible only thing exciting was finally getting to go home. Interesting, our fearless leader, M was no where to be seen first few days, oh yeah he went to take his kid to college because he was the only one that had a kid going to college? hmmm hint as to what we were in for, " do as I say, not as I do". Then once approved your car has become a taxi service for the whole entire home office to parade around with you every week! Okay got through that, thought all could be good & Noooo not possible a lovely email from our fearless leader specifically addressing that the national meeting " will not be exciting, entertaining, or enjoyable" yes you will have time in the evening to connect with families ie 1 hour between session & forced dinner with crap food to decompress. Very nice of him to lay out that there will be individual break outs so we don't zone out in long general session crap at least we could compile our own demise. Can't forget the 4 electives that we MUST choose. Okay first electives are just that " elective" just call them mandatory torture sessions & at least you can be accused of being honest! Those crap electives, at least as described offer no value, selling skills are you even living in the present? You brag that avg tenure is 16 yrs of exp & you offer selling skills? Can my elective be staying in territory and at least generating revenue?
Okay then, Dear Santa my wish is you drop a plague down my chimney so I can't travel that week. Please Santa save me from further torture. Oh I know maybe the fearless leader's Kid has to be escorted back to college & we will be spared him for a couple of days. Okay every one other option is plastic surgery to have a stupid smile permanently placed on our face a we are pushed to endure this crap. And yet one more time they will leave the meeting thinking it was a huge success when in reality every one will be so excited and happy because they are getting out of there. Guarantee they will come back with some crap that everyone learned so much, had so much fun & can't wait to get back to serving their providers. At least I provided them with their closing comment!
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Sounds like things have gotten bad in "paradise" at Alkermes. I had a gut feeling telling me to stay put, and I followed it. Maybe things will get better for you guys, but you have to realize that pharma has only one real direction to go, no matter what the company, and that's slowly downward. The question is, can we survive the journey?
 






anonymous said:
Sounds like things have gotten bad in "paradise" at Alkermes. I had a gut feeling telling me to stay put, and I followed it. Maybe things will get better for you guys, but you have to realize that pharma has only one real direction to go, no matter what the company, and that's slowly downward. The question is, can we survive the journey?
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N = 1

You can't judge an entire organization based on a rant by a single individual.

You had already reached your conclusion and are just looking for data that supports it. Again, you find what you look for.
 






immature idiots- all of you.
Alkermes is a good place to be. Job is tough- I'm paid to do it and paid well.
I love people that blame their manager all the time- shut the f up and get your shit done. If your good at what you do who gives a shit how often they work with you. Really this is such BS here. Grow the f up
 






anonymous said:
Sounds like things have gotten bad in "paradise" at Alkermes. I had a gut feeling telling me to stay put, and I followed it. Maybe things will get better for you guys, but you have to realize that pharma has only one real direction to go, no matter what the company, and that's slowly downward. The question is, can we survive the journey?
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Well said!!!!
 






anonymous said:
Every day I get up and think "today will be better" & everyday something happens to tell me " Oh dear God why did I ever even think of leaving what I had?" From a marathon Launch meeting, that by the way in case no one at corporate knew, launches are supposed to be exciting, invigorating, giving you that "can't wait to hit the streets running attitude" yeah I am sorry from Sunday to Friday was horrible only thing exciting was finally getting to go home. Interesting, our fearless leader, M was no where to be seen first few days, oh yeah he went to take his kid to college because he was the only one that had a kid going to college? hmmm hint as to what we were in for, " do as I say, not as I do". Then once approved your car has become a taxi service for the whole entire home office to parade around with you every week! Okay got through that, thought all could be good & Noooo not possible a lovely email from our fearless leader specifically addressing that the national meeting " will not be exciting, entertaining, or enjoyable" yes you will have time in the evening to connect with families ie 1 hour between session & forced dinner with crap food to decompress. Very nice of him to lay out that there will be individual break outs so we don't zone out in long general session crap at least we could compile our own demise. Can't forget the 4 electives that we MUST choose. Okay first electives are just that " elective" just call them mandatory torture sessions & at least you can be accused of being honest! Those crap electives, at least as described offer no value, selling skills are you even living in the present? You brag that avg tenure is 16 yrs of exp & you offer selling skills? Can my elective be staying in territory and at least generating revenue?
Okay then, Dear Santa my wish is you drop a plague down my chimney so I can't travel that week. Please Santa save me from further torture. Oh I know maybe the fearless leader's Kid has to be escorted back to college & we will be spared him for a couple of days. Okay every one other option is plastic surgery to have a stupid smile permanently placed on our face a we are pushed to endure this crap. And yet one more time they will leave the meeting thinking it was a huge success when in reality every one will be so excited and happy because they are getting out of there. Guarantee they will come back with some crap that everyone learned so much, had so much fun & can't wait to get back to serving their providers. At least I provided them with their closing comment!
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HR Monitor:: A very very disturbing post. It will scare people away from our great Company. You should never have been highered. Evetything you say is a lie. And we have the highest pay in pharma!!!
HR is outraged.
Your post has neen forwarded to the CEO. Expect some reaction.
 












anonymous said:
Poor thing. I truly feel bad for you. You are very lost. Even worse, you are completely unaware of it.

The main problem is your attitude and perspective on life in general. Everything you describe above are extremely small problems, essentially irrelevant. Look up, "first world problems" to try and gain some perspective on how truly ridiculous and irrelevant your complaints are. Here's what you sound like:

https://www.google.com/search?q=fir...ved=0ahUKEwjg-fm9xMLJAhVJrD4KHXnoCUAQ_AUIBygC

Whatever you look for in life, you will find. If you look only for garbage, that is all you will see. You are surrounded by opportunities and good things, but you don't see them because you are only looking for the bad. What you look for, you will find.
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Yeah, what now? Sh%#T talking loser.
 






That place is a hell hole. Especially if you are a successful woman. The "$%^&" is only just starting to hit the fan. I can't wait to read about who goes to jail for their crimes and how much moolah they had to fork out to the victims of their corp abuse. And HR dinosaurs will and should be fired... along with the corp criminals they protected. Buy stock in popcorn. I and others will be buying loads of it and watching and waiting for our ounce of justice! Those of you who see this injustice and think it's not bad... you are wrong. You should do what's right and stand up for truth. I can at least sleep at night.
 




































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