Kay Myrdal

[Anonymous]

This is a complex scientific/service industry very difficult for those used to the pharma or product arenas to acclimate to. It is wearing that new senior managers seem to have no basic instincts or strategic inclinations. That along with limited interpersonal skills and immature reasoning continue to thwart even the most stellar sales efforts. I hope a better fit can be found for her particular talents.

 

[Anonymous]

This is a complex scientific/service industry very difficult for those used to the pharma or product arenas to acclimate to. It is wearing that new senior managers seem to have no basic instincts or strategic inclinations. That along with limited interpersonal skills and immature reasoning continue to thwart even the most stellar sales efforts. I hope a better fit can be found for her particular talents.

Thanks...I needed a laugh. Your post really took off when, after stating the complexity of providing printer paper, you go on to write a completely illiterate sentence. Seriously, if you think that a medical device sales rep couldn't handle the "complexity" of the lab business, you are sorely mistaken. My guess is you couldn't describe what most tests are used for other then ImmunoCap and HPV - and it has taken you years to get that far.

 

[Anonymous]

Einstein, I think the intent was to articulate in a politically correct way that trying to wade through the Quest corporate dysfunction is overwhelming.
I know that trying to understand other company boards can be confusing...even for medical device salespeople.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks...I needed a laugh. Your post really took off when, after stating the complexity of providing printer paper, you go on to write a completely illiterate sentence. Seriously, if you think that a medical device sales rep couldn't handle the "complexity" of the lab business, you are sorely mistaken. My guess is you couldn't describe what most tests are used for other then ImmunoCap and HPV - and it has taken you years to get that far.

Hospital reps are selling ImmunoCap and HPV testing?

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks...I needed a laugh. Your post really took off when, after stating the complexity of providing printer paper, you go on to write a completely illiterate sentence. Seriously, if you think that a medical device sales rep couldn't handle the "complexity" of the lab business, you are sorely mistaken. My guess is you couldn't describe what most tests are used for other then ImmunoCap and HPV - and it has taken you years to get that far.

Well I for one don't think a device rep can handle selling a service after selling a product. Seen too many come and then high tail it back to their recruiter. The way I see it it doesn't take much to pitch your product using the speech you have been taught to say. Monkey see, monkey do.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks...I needed a laugh. Your post really took off when, after stating the complexity of providing printer paper, you go on to write a completely illiterate sentence. Seriously, if you think that a medical device sales rep couldn't handle the "complexity" of the lab business, you are sorely mistaken. My guess is you couldn't describe what most tests are used for other then ImmunoCap and HPV - and it has taken you years to get that far.

please don't use big words. there are device people trying to read the posts.

 

[Anonymous]

KM and CD MUST GO! Quest is not the company it once was. Morale is terrible, and I hear the next bout of layoffs are scheduled for September (again, "I hear").

CD? who?

 

[Anonymous]

I'm in the process of interviewing for a sales position in Baltimore. Any advice?

 

[Anonymous]

I'm in the process of interviewing for a sales position in Baltimore. Any advice?

Best wishes =

 

[Anonymous]

The hospital business is (or was) profitable and the folks supporting it - creative 0 but Quest has devastated the relationships by decimating the employees who had the knowledge and connections = good luck with the major contracts now that the supports have been laid off - CALIFORNIA can you survive???

 

[Anonymous]

Best wishes =

what the hell does that mean?

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah, get rid of the hospital group, they are actually growing unlike the shit hole physician business. Dumbfuckingass.

May I suggest a compromise? Get rid of Surya Mohapatra who has done nothing but blame others.

 

[Anonymous]

May I suggest a compromise? Get rid of Surya Mohapatra who has done nothing but blame others.

Agreed. Get rid of that selfish fool.

 

[Anonymous]

Done.

 

[Anonymous]

She knows nothing about the industry, has the temperment of a child & an incompetent leader. She doesn't know debris from treasure. My guess is she'll be gone in a year after the hospital division continues to bleed talent.

So true this.

 

[anonymous]

Kay is one awful lady. I wish they'd get her out of here.

 

[anonymous]

Kay is one awful lady. I wish they'd get her out of here.

Where do we find people like her.

 

[anonymous]

Where do we find people like her.

It puzzles me how people like her advance. It is so obvious she does not know the business. She's boorish, mean, and a poor leader. Help us please!

 

[anonymous]

I don't get it either. From time to time the company brings in people that at best operate at the edge of our values and outside of good management/HR practices and don't add value to the business. Yet we keep them. Granted the company has from time to time made mistakes and then corrected it, but yet too many linger or are simply bad hires to begin with.

 

[anonymous]

I don't get it either. From time to time the company brings in people that at best operate at the edge of our values and outside of good management/HR practices and don't add value to the business. Yet we keep them. Granted the company has from time to time made mistakes and then corrected it, but yet too many linger or are simply bad hires to begin with.

I keep hoping the new management after the buy out will get rid of her. She is toxic.