Just had to add that I started my career with Lederle and managed to survive Wyeth...all the way to Pfizer. I'm still here but not enjoying the gig very much. Yeah, I launched Prostep, Ziac, Zosyn and sold direct at the pharmacies. Had a super time back in the day! Things change and I am thinking of resigning, not old enough to retire. This cue computer thing is just a bore. Wish I would just get severed! Anyone know how I do that?
Lederle Labs: any reps from the Cyanamid days still around?
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Why don't you just quit you old bag.........chances are you're not even working anymore, and if you would've quit a long time ago (cuz if you were with Lederle, gimme a break) than maybe my and others' jobs would have been saved. I loved my job was displaced for no reason except because of "space"
I was displaced after 20 years with Wyeth also for "space". I loved my job and worked hard all those years. I would have given anything to keep it, but there was only one door, the one marked out.
You are an ungrateful pig. Do not worry. When the downsizing comes in the fall, I am sure you will receive your wish.
The Suprax launch was in 1989. My first year in the industry. I am now in my 22nd year in pharma. How long can I last?
until somebody kicks your ass to the curb when they find out you really don't work
Actually, you have no clue! I am one of the reps that still works EVERY day! Why? When I was hired by Lederle in 1989, it was one rep per company per territory! If I did not work, nothing sold! I got all the credit, or all the blame! Since I am still here 22 years later, its obvious I worked hard and sold product. I still do the same thing today. Of course, I have carried the load for other people in the "pod" environment!
The old days were better.....................
the fact you're still here has nothing to do with hard work and selling, i and many of my high performing friends were laid off and some of us were district and area volume leaders, and some were award winners. you're just lucky and live in the right place
Sorry to have to give bad news, Melba Fritz died a couple of years ago. I believe she had breast cancer.
Does anyone remember the MASH meeting? Believe it was in Dallas. All I know is I was in a hot tub at 6am and had to make the meeting at 7am. What a blast. All those good old days are gone forever. Lawyers screwed up this business. Them and the ass holes who had three to four reps calling on the same MD for the same product. Rediculous. It killed the goose that laid the golden egg. Anyone out there from the Cleveland,Pittsburgh, and Washington,DC hospital rep?. We were intertwined after so many region changes. Also remember when Wyeth bought us, Am CYanamid was about to sell us off SK. Only a few would have survived. Wyeth saved our asses.
Am CYanamid was about to sell us off SK. Only a few would have survived. Wyeth saved our asses.[/QUOTE]
No doubt if SK bought us we would have been toast but the 11th hour call came in from the governor Wyeth and we were saved. Those extra years (till 2009) allowed me to save, save, save. Even back then I knew the writing was on the wall and that $$$ in the bank was the answer.
No doubt if SK bought us we would have been toast but the 11th hour call came in from the governor Wyeth and we were saved. Those extra years (till 2009) allowed me to save, save, save. Even back then I knew the writing was on the wall and that $$$ in the bank was the answer.
What about vaccines? When we promoted them at Wyeth we really rocked! Then management started with the smoke and mirrors - they promised to deliver a new vaccine each year for 10 years (stated at a national meeting). Of course they did not make good on this.
We began to go down hill. The portfolio we inherited from Lederle began to shrink: Orimune, Tetramune, Hibtiter - discontiuned. The duds: Flu Mist,
Rotoshield.
Prevnar needs no explanation. But we became a ONE TRICK PONY division. It is still true to this day with Pfizer.
Too bad - the peds really appreciated the vaccine reps back then.
Hay I am an old Lederle rep I miss the good ol days....tomorrows prices for yesterdays drugs...today!
BTW I was at the Dallas Mash launch - what product was that the relaunch of piperacil or Zosyn?
Thanks for the update. I am sorry to hear this. Melba also had a daughter that worked for Lederle. I don't remember her name. I miss Lederle.
It was so cold that when you walked across the street to the convention center the hair in your nostrils froze. It was brutal but it was a lot of fun.
It was neither if I remember correctly...it was the launch of Rheumatrex. A blast of a meeting though. Remember the talent show? I recently came across an old VHS tape they gave us of highlights from the meeting...so much fun to watch. Lederle was a great company....I recall that they always carried through on what they promised. Never felt that they quite "tooted their horn" enough regarding what they did for the world with pediatric vaccines. What a wonderful thing to be a part of that. Great times in pharma back then. Glad I'm out of it now though, but got to experience the job when it was truly an admired profession. Delivering lunch to an office was unheard of nor necessary in order to gain time with a doctor. Oh my how times have changed. Sad.
The Rheumatrex Dose Pack! Methotrexate, baby!
I always thought Methotrexate would be a great name for a heavy metal band! Now, Live in concert, METHOTREXATE! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!