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anonymous said:
When we go back it will be different. Access will be limited to sample drops or only lunches. The days of waiting in a reception room or nurses station are over. No lunch for the day means no customers seen
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Ever think there will be no lunches allowed anymore? A lot of offices have no food in vending machines, water fountains are off, microwaves off limits....then what’s even the purpose of the rep? Days are numbered....
 




Syneos must have an incentive in their contract with Janssen to get paid additional money for hitting specific benchmarks. My manager wants us to have a certain number of calls in our iPad every week regardless if they are real or not. This is a house of cards ready to fall.
 








Covid will force Pharma to make long overdue changes. As we enter inflated call numbers we only hope this slows the pace of change so some of us can escape to another industry before we hit the unemployment lines.
 












Life is miserable on this Janssen contract. I hate having to enter so many false calls to inflate my numbers, but that is the direction. My manager is more paranoid about losing his job than I am as he provides zero value, and needs the call numbers to be high to justify his job.
 




anonymous said:
Life is miserable on this Janssen contract. I hate having to enter so many false calls to inflate my numbers, but that is the direction. My manager is more paranoid about losing his job than I am as he provides zero value, and needs the call numbers to be high to justify his job.
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I couldn't agree more. I am so miserable as well I am actually hoping to get laid off. Luckily, my wife has a high paying, stable job.
 












anonymous said:
If you quit you don’t get unemployment pay plus you burn your bridges with Syneos. I like Syneos, just not the Janssen contract.
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True. The only good thing about the janssen contract was the tease of getting a full time job at JnJ. That has been diminished after Covid started. This is the worst contract I have been on. They need to get us on another contract, or let us go with our 2 weeks severance + unemployment benefits.
 




anonymous said:
True. The only good thing about the janssen contract was the tease of getting a full time job at JnJ. That has been diminished after Covid started. This is the worst contract I have been on. They need to get us on another contract, or let us go with our 2 weeks severance + unemployment benefits.
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Agree but I think we would get 6 weeks of severance. The people who were laid off last October received 6 weeks. And yes, this is the worst contract I have been on as well. They are back filling the Janssen positions but are not the Syneos ones until 'next year' I think we will be gone by the end of the year.
 
















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