No future updates to MyCall per our Port 2 teleconference what's next?
Marketing is said to be looking at other options...
Marketing is said to be looking at other options...
MyCall is done. What's next?
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iPads baby they are piloting some with s3 s so word is we are getting them next year. Prob after lay offs
No biggie. As if MyCall had much value to begin with. Surprised it took this long to pull the plug.
S3s will get the new (not yet announced publicly) IPAD3
S2s will get the current (v2 version).
S1s will get a small chalkboard and 3 pieces of chalk.
You may get the latest toy but the job is getting more shitty every day. The managers are insane. So what if you are carrying a spanking new iPad with the latest App followed by a crazy-eyed, drooling in the mouth manager into a doctor's office to raise havoc?
"What software program is next?" Are you freakin' kidding me. Who gives a shit? The ship is sinking and you're worried about the next bullshit software package.
Very true. Now lets talk about company car. Or cell phone carrier(s). Or corporate card.
OMG! I am so glad I got out of Merck- It has been the best 1.5 years- Just wish I could get all my wasted time that I spent there back!
The managers at Merck are freakin idiots- Thank goodness the real world doesn't function like Merck- I am thankful every morning that I get to do my new job without some "crazy-eyed, drooling in the mouth manager" following me around all day pissing all my customers off!!!!
I have been out slightly more than a year now. I laugh to myself whenever I think about my former manager modeling how to sell or the way he highlighted himself at meetings, particularly when directors were in the room. It is now such a distant memory and an alien world to me.
Congratulations on pulling yourself up out of this muck.
It was not easy. The money was the attraction. I had enough years vested and was able to have a decent pension. But walking away required a lot of prayer and soul searching before I pulled the trigger. Before the ink was dried, Merck sent a letter saying, "Dear Retiree". Now I never hear from them except paying for my health care benefits. One day you are a special person, then you are, well, a retiree. My advice: don't take this job too seriously.
Wish we all got the a pension and benefits worth anything......bet many of the older will get screwed out of what we were working to reach........I can see it now the letter will read "since you have less than 15 or 20 years your pension is $100.00 dollars a month and we will pick up $50.00 of your $1200.00 a month medical premium....starting until 2020. Congratulations on your forced, retirement. Good luck in your job search!"
Wasted time is right....you need to get out of this insane asylum to realize just how bizarre it has become...
...and realize what your bipolar manager has been criticizing you all along are not true. That indeed you are a much better person. You can sell, just not the Merck style. That you are a normal and sane human being while your manager is still entrapped in this little world where he/she fancies himself/herself as providing the reps value in riding along.
Bad post...NCM is gone, now mycall is gone what next! Many reps from the old school sat around waiting for NCM to die or be killed when the tide turned and it only took less than 3 years and several changes at the top! Now its easy to hear anal compulsive DCO's at S2 meetings talk about reach and frequency when they swore 2 years ago that we'd never hear that term again at Merck. Old bad habits never really die at Merck no matter what great things we think we heard or how progressive we appear to be! We even saw a reach and frequence slide for the first time in over 2 years...as they say in the old joke the partys' over, back on your heads...Bob McMahon had a great idea..now he gets to tell it to 'Barney Frank' and Nancy Pelosi, what a reward for being a good Merckie!
Been with Merck for a long time. As you said, management come and go. Old ideas get re-packaged as new. Something that was considered the absolute truth got ditched just like that. The only difference is we used to execute whatever it was and usually it would be okay most of the time. Now there are so much more bloodletting as they switch from one brilliant idea to another to stay competitive.