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Merck is crumbling like the Berlin Wall

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Working at Merck is like living under Communisim in the Eastern Block...seriously, if you depend on this company as your livelyhood, you essentially live in a de-facto police state...
Here is a few to get you started...feel free to add your own observations:

1) All opposition to Merck managment is not only discouraged, but usually draws
retaliation.

2) Class warfare is rampant...(Are you an S3 or just a lowly S1 that has to go to the back
of the soup line?)

3) You never know who you can trust. You are pitted against other reps so who knows
if you should be honest with your "friends" here.

4) Electronic surveillance...Just like the secret police used in East Berlin...Be careful where
u use that cell phone from...You may ping off the wrong tower in Sector 7. Is that GPS
really tracking me? What about my gas receipts...wrong area at wrong time?

5) Don't you dare end up on the "dashboard" where your boss can focus on you like a
lazer beam.

6) You are in a sort of prison here...No one will hire a pharma rep (unless they are young
with just a couple of years in) but another pharma company. You can check out but
you can never leave...

Merck 2011...Truly a frightening experience....This is no way to live people!!
 






Thanks captain jack bag! No one cares how miserable you think Merck is or your life for that matter. Just work hard and be happy you have a job! We don't need you stating the obvious. Look I'm the leader of the jack bags!
 




Anonymous said:
Thanks captain jack bag! No one cares how miserable you think Merck is or your life for that matter. Just work hard and be happy you have a job! We don't need you stating the obvious. Look I'm the leader of the jack bags!
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The goes that Jack Bag quote again...gotta love it.
I for one, am paid well as an S2...Have I been screwed over at Merck? Sure...but I refuse to kiss any ass, so what should I expect. I don't like my manager, but leaving is just stupid. I will ride this train until it crashes of a cliff. Then on to another adventure in life. Until I am asked to leave you are stuck with me Merck and I with you. Kind of like a bad marriage, but at least you get to have sex once in a while!
 




Anonymous said:
The goes that Jack Bag quote again...gotta love it.
I for one, am paid well as an S2...Have I been screwed over at Merck? Sure...but I refuse to kiss any ass, so what should I expect. I don't like my manager, but leaving is just stupid. I will ride this train until it crashes of a cliff. Then on to another adventure in life. Until I am asked to leave you are stuck with me Merck and I with you. Kind of like a bad marriage, but at least you get to have sex once in a while!
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I guess you are comfortable in ordering a rosy palm from ROME to be included with the insipid marketing materials you need.
 
















"Until I am asked to leave you are stuck with me Merck and I with you. Kind of like a bad marriage, but at least you get to have sex once in a while!" [QOUTE]

Love the analogy! It's about sticking it out until the time is right to leave, or you just can't take it anymore, or something better comes along. Maintain the frame of mind that you are in control...and then you can get through anything. Most importantly, don't let anything get to you...stay healthy and happy:)
 




Merck has never been very good at managing people. In the old days there was just so much valuable stuff to get done that if people were not productive, it would soon become apparent. But basically there was enough space for people to do things in a manner that best suited them. There was true variety -dare I say diversity of style if there was not social diversity - in the workforce. And that variety helped to make Merck an interesting place to work. These days, Merck is all about micromanaging behavior and rewarding obsequity. No high-performing organization allows their employees to be over-governed in such a manner - which is one of many reasons why Merck is not a high-performing organization. Compliance to operating procedures written by those with less than half a clue and obedience to those who could never command respect any other way.
 




Anonymous said:
Merck has never been very good at managing people. In the old days there was just so much valuable stuff to get done that if people were not productive, it would soon become apparent. But basically there was enough space for people to do things in a manner that best suited them. There was true variety -dare I say diversity of style if there was not social diversity - in the workforce. And that variety helped to make Merck an interesting place to work. These days, Merck is all about micromanaging behavior and rewarding obsequity. No high-performing organization allows their employees to be over-governed in such a manner - which is one of many reasons why Merck is not a high-performing organization. Compliance to operating procedures written by those with less than half a clue and obedience to those who could never command respect any other way.
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Merck is no longer a "high performing organization" because its pipeline has dried up. Management has no choice but to "over-govern" in order to squeeze out whatever prescriptions can still be had in this generic-saturated, "me-too" market. Reps have to be told exactly how to go about their job, and have to be closely monitored...until the day they will be told that they no longer have a job (and that day is coming soon).
 




PP is spot on and so is the OP. This job is dead. We sell nothing. I have no idea what management thinks they're tracking. It won't matter. Merck needs to cut deep and all through middle management and sales, restructure their entire way of doing business or die. It is that simple. To wait five years and see how things shake out, is to end up with no company at all.
 




Everyone are correct. Trying to micromanage and turn everyone into a clone is not going to being success. Each person has an unique style of selling. The new Merck would not allow that. So everyone must deliver this statement in this way or else. We are screwed.
 




Anonymous said:
Merck is no longer a "high performing organization" because its pipeline has dried up. Management has no choice but to "over-govern" in order to squeeze out whatever prescriptions can still be had in this generic-saturated, "me-too" market. Reps have to be told exactly how to go about their job, and have to be closely monitored...until the day they will be told that they no longer have a job (and that day is coming soon).
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R&D has been over-governed for years. To be productive in any task, whether sales or research, it is important to have sufficient time to focus and to close things out. Perhaps this is most important in R&D where the time scale for work doesn't necessarily comply with an Outlook 9-5 planner. The amount of interfering crap (inappropriate training and legal mumbo jumbo) that has been foisted upon R&D in the last 15 years is phenomenal. Please, just let us be geeks. Outsourced R&D not only has the benefit of lower hourly rates but also the benefit of having no other measure and responsibility than productivity at the bench. All the Merck corporate crap never gets to the outsourcing contractors.

Management to blame. And who is best rewarded?
 




Does your management still espouse the need for representatives in an attempt to calm the restless natives or have they progressed to keeping everyone anxious about the real threat of job loss? I take it's the latter from what I read on CP.
 




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