It's getting ugly

[Anonymous]

"My PMP" has become a vehicle which pits reps against each other, rather than promoting a healthy environment for overall territory success. Now the focus is on being "saved" when the next round of layoffs happen, rather than concentrating on increasing product sales via real, honest teamwork. What a dysfunctional place. Never seen anything like this...looking forward to getting out of here.

 

[Anonymous]

"My PMP" has become a vehicle which pits reps against each other, rather than promoting a healthy environment for overall territory success. Now the focus is on being "saved" when the next round of layoffs happen, rather than concentrating on increasing product sales via real, honest teamwork. What a dysfunctional place. Never seen anything like this...looking forward to getting out of here.

I said the very same thing about 14 years ago after attending a meeting where Miek Koerth exhibited some very unprofessional behavior. I'd never seen anything like it at Merck before. Maybe I was just lucky. I heard stories about Joe Head that made me feel thankful that I never worked under the guy. In any case, I got the hell out and am glad I did. How anyone tolerates what is going on at Merck now is unbelievable.

 

[Anonymous]

I said the very same thing about 14 years ago after attending a meeting where Miek Koerth exhibited some very unprofessional behavior. I'd never seen anything like it at Merck before. Maybe I was just lucky. I heard stories about Joe Head that made me feel thankful that I never worked under the guy. In any case, I got the hell out and am glad I did. How anyone tolerates what is going on at Merck now is unbelievable.

tolerate this crap for too long and you will lose your mind...things are getting FUGLY!

 

[Anonymous]

PMPs or any annual review scheme is more often than not used to diminish people and to place people on a compensation curve. Nobody with any sophisitication at personnel management puts any stock in them as useful tools for long-term success. If your boss doesn't have a proper clue about whether you are valuable, what you are doing, what help you need, or how happy you are as a result of their regular interactions with you is, by definition a worthless boss. And worthless bosses aren't going to turn it around just at PMP time.

 

[Anonymous]

Did anyone else notice that they left out the 'i'!

 

[Anonymous]

"My PMP" has become a vehicle which pits reps against each other, rather than promoting a healthy environment for overall territory success. Now the focus is on being "saved" when the next round of layoffs happen, rather than concentrating on increasing product sales via real, honest teamwork. What a dysfunctional place. Never seen anything like this...looking forward to getting out of here.

Yes the PMP process is there to weed out the undesirables no matter if they are productive or not. It is not a merrit based system, people just want to complete their goals. As long as they can say it is complete they do not care. It can be half assed and makes the company even more inefficient, as long as they can check off the box that it is done, they do not care.

Of course if your in the "in crowd", you can not show up to work and you will get at least an average rating.

 

[Anonymous]

There is a whole collection of these worthless things for us to do. Just do them and tick the box when you're finished. Net benefit to the business - nothing. As more and more Merck employees get habituated to these tasks, the less and less anyone wants to attract them away from Merck. We spend our days doing stuff nobody else would care about.

 

[Anonymous]

It is because MBAs must always have something measurable! Trust and value, although we score it, is not really that measurable. No one I bet has ever bothered to ask if the PMP process sells products, makes a product better or brings us more customers. I don't even think they can kid themselves the PMP process has a remote connection to any of the aforementioned items. It IS worthless, but it makes management "feel" like they are needed for something. It puts tactics on paper and accomplishments. So someone somewhere feels successful. It's not me. My manager, thank goodness, has actually said: "It is completely meaningless!" But even he has to play the game. Who the fck thought this shit up? Really! Focus! Focus! Focus! Make sure the salesforce has the time and motivation and tools to sell. Don't give us more busywork just because "you" bought a worthless POS from some vendor to supposedly enhance corporate competencies.