It's not about nice hair and fancy words

Anonymous

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I have the solution for the "problems" in the South Zone!! Ready?
Having nice hair and using fancy business terms while speaking to groups is not a bad thing. What is a bad thing is when the meetings are over, the facade comes down and the real manager is revealed. It is incredibly naive to think that the one on one encounters ("tough conversations" as it is called in the SZ) are not shared with nearly everyone in the zone. It is understood that having difficult conversations is a natural part of doing business. What isn't understood is the fact that these "tough conversations" are often degrading and pertain to matters that are completely out of the hands of the Representative (ie low market share due to lack of access to our drugs). You can degrade and fire 10 reps but it still will not fix the problem.
Solution: fix your hair up real nice, practice those fancy business school words then go to the Medicaid meetings and private insurance meetings and convince them to put our meds on formulary. Once they are, and if the reps still don't perform then by all means engage in one of those "tough conversations". If you can't convince them to put it on formulary, then thank the Rep for getting all they can, then close you cake hole!
Problem solved!! Btw, You're Welcome.
 






Very well said. Is it up to 10 reps in the south zone that have been "fired"? I can't believe this is still going on and nothing is being done about it. It's gone on for so long. Glad to hear JT still has a nice hair do though.........does he still say to ask docs to write rx's so you can win trips?
 












For those of us that are out of the loop, what's going on in the south zone? I thought you all were killing it down there.

So let me get this right: you are at the top of the rankings (well, probably not YOU since you are bitching on CP) but all the managers are assholes who fire all their good reps (but not YOU, who are the voice of reason and the only one who see it all clearly). I'd have thought they'd be after you most of all!

Did I get that right?
 






So let me get this right: you are at the top of the rankings (well, probably not YOU since you are bitching on CP) but all the managers are assholes who fire all their good reps (but not YOU, who are the voice of reason and the only one who see it all clearly). I'd have thought they'd be after you most of all!

Did I get that right?

Lol, I'm actually near the top and have been here long before JT...Wrong is wrong. I have also been lucky.
 






So let me get this right: you are at the top of the rankings (well, probably not YOU since you are bitching on CP) but all the managers are assholes who fire all their good reps (but not YOU, who are the voice of reason and the only one who see it all clearly). I'd have thought they'd be after you most of all!

Did I get that right?

So do you manage atl south or Orlando?
 












Jenna is not out. She will be back. (sorry jt). But you raise a good point. One mgr deceased, one out getting well, one divorced, one can't stop twitching, one out on suspension for doing What JT told him to. Countless reps taking leave of absences, reps having siezures and multiple lawsuits. I know Gary is so proud of his boy!

Its a real party here in the South Zone!
 












Once again, what's going on in the south? What's Jerry doing to make life so miserable? Micro management? I hope it gets better because anyone who has been at Shire a while can sympathize