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Anonymous said:
There is no chance that anyone in Senior Leadership will truthfully answer a tough question in front of a room full of people. And there is a near 100% chance that anyone who asks a tough question that has not already been vetted will be marked. It is the culture of this company now. They made massive errors in judgment a couple of years ago, yet they are unwilling to reverse any of their decisions. Short-term decision-making that has led to long-term chaos.

If you believe for one second that you can take a stand and openly voice your dissatisfaction or opposition to their management without retribution, then you are only fooling yourself. Maybe someone will reach their breaking point and make a scene, but I doubt it. It's far too risky, and the job market stinks.

We have no voice with management. Some of our DM's have tried, but they are rebuked. Nearly half of our pharmaceutical products are on backorder. The group running the disposables business is completely clueless. We can't produce a simple piece of sales literature without an act of congress. This company is a bureaucratic quagmire.

We have to go to this meeting. We have to endure presentations by people whose only goal is improve their position on the "ladder" in Lake Forest. They will tell us, as they have done in the past, that they are "on it". But they are not Hospira people, they are "executives" who are willing to do whatever they are told, regardless of the consequences to us, our hospitals, or our patients, to load their pockets with cash and options. But we don't have to applaud them. We shouldn't applaud them. We should let them know, in the only safe way possible, that we think they have done a terrible job of managing this company.

DON'T CLAP!!!!
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Last year one brave man stood up and said something during a general meeting. I wonder if he is still with us. He asked about back orders and how they accounted for them in our sales numbers. I am sorry I can't remember his name or exactly what he said but he was the only one who said anything of substance. I wish I could say more but like everyone else I have a family to support and the job market is not great right now.
 






Anonymous said:
Well, i've taken the time to read all of the messages. The one thing I'm getting from this is that we sales reps aren't happy. Our recourse to all of the problems we have encured over the last several years is "don't clap" at the National Sales Meeting.. How many people do we think will follow this lead? Realisticly very few. COME ON, in a croud of several thousand you believe that your going to get a majority that don't clap? Your kidding yourself! It sounds like a good idea when you say it out load, but there won't be any impact from the small number of people who will do it. Frankly, if you want to make a point, make a fucking a point. Ask the tough question. Chances are, when the first question is asked many will come afterwards. They can't fire everyone!! It's easy to sit on a site like this and bitch about what we want done differently, but we aren't willing to literally stand up and say it's wrong. Instead, your solution is to "not clap". Is that really what's going to get into there heads? Probably not!! If you have something to say, which most of us do. Stop being a pussy, standing behind everyone else and stand up on your two feet and speak out loud. If your pissed off about your job and are unhappy, then either quit or do something about it. Stop sitting behind your computer. I am part of the Hospira team and don't hold any management position. All I'm simply saying is that to be effective recognize what the problem is and come up with a solution... Maybe a better solution is to have our customers "blow up" the email addresses of of all the executives with how our issues have impacted their business. You want to make a statement. Our customers can do this better then we can.......
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You make some great points; all very valid. The reality is that the "big boys and girls" don't care what we have to say. They are where they are(most of them) NOT due to any special competence, but by who they knew, whose ass they kissed...and/or are still kissing, and playing the "game" properly....going along to get ahead...."Yes" people. Never in their careers, did they ask the hard questions, make any waves; they simply acquiesced to the current popular thinking, did what they were told, and moved along. We at Hospira have too many unqualified people in the wrong positions, meaning that in the correct positions, based solely on their competencies, they would at least have the opportunity to do something positive.

This meeting is to raise the morale of the troops. They know that morale is at an all-time low. We will listen to the rah-rah until we're ready to explode, move to our break-outs and beat the same old horses....IQ, SF.Com, to death, workshop the same old crap, listen to our managers spew the company line ad nauseum, etc. etc. etc. Just thinking about it makes me depressed.
Unfortunately for us, and most workers today, we have little choice but to just take the abuse, swallow hard, and move on. We have families to feed, and the job market sucks...not that any other company would be any different.
We'll all just sit there and clap because we can't change anything; it is what it is, will remain what it is, and we either go along, or we're out.
Enjoy the meeting!
 






Anonymous said:
how do you know that is a woman?
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As I said in the first sentence- the person refers to getting "goose bumps" listening to Sean
and the Rah Rah tone of the whole post is written in the tone of a cheerleader. The whole tone of the post is written as woman would write. Who would get goose bumps listening to Sean other than a woman or maybe a gay guy. This is not mean anything derogatory as it relates to women as we have some very good female workers at HSP, just that the prose gives away some of the identity of the poster
 












Instead of focusing on the negative, are there any good people left in the home office? Surely there are some people doing their jobs well. Are we letting the good ones know that we appreciate them? If the good ones get discouraged, they may leave and that won't help any of us that need the job to support our families. Just a thought.
 






Anonymous said:
Instead of focusing on the negative, are there any good people left in the home office? Surely there are some people doing their jobs well. Are we letting the good ones know that we appreciate them? If the good ones get discouraged, they may leave and that won't help any of us that need the job to support our families. Just a thought.
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Seriously? There are tons of people, probably including yourself, that are lazy as hell and it takes them forever to get back to sales with answers. You must be one of them. What a stupid ass post. Idiot.
 






Anonymous said:
Instead of focusing on the negative, are there any good people left in the home office? Surely there are some people doing their jobs well. Are we letting the good ones know that we appreciate them? If the good ones get discouraged, they may leave and that won't help any of us that need the job to support our families. Just a thought.
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Obviously there are some good people at this company. We do appreciate them and tell them often. I know that I do whenever I get the chance. The point is that we are in tough shape and we need that acknowledged and someone to be accountable at the home office. Sales is not the only area that is sufferring because of the poor decisions of our executives.
 






Anonymous said:
Instead of focusing on the negative, are there any good people left in the home office? Surely there are some people doing their jobs well. Are we letting the good ones know that we appreciate them? If the good ones get discouraged, they may leave and that won't help any of us that need the job to support our families. Just a thought.
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If the "good ones", and there are many(just not nearly enough), get discouraged from these postings and leave, well that is the fault of all the bad ones who wield most if of the power. Trust that the "good ones" know just as well as we do about all the wrong things that are going on in this company and know they are looking for a way out unless they are too close to retirement to go in that direction.

You however would have us look on the bright side and ignore the problems and also blame ourselves for a good mgr leaving, rather than the horse shit situation this company has become. I would suggest YOU take a reality pill Mary Poppins
 






Anonymous said:
As I said in the first sentence- the person refers to getting "goose bumps" listening to Sean
and the Rah Rah tone of the whole post is written in the tone of a cheerleader. The whole tone of the post is written as woman would write. Who would get goose bumps listening to Sean other than a woman or maybe a gay guy. This is not mean anything derogatory as it relates to women as we have some very good female workers at HSP, just that the prose gives away some of the identity of the poster
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Does it really matter what gender wrote this?
 






Anonymous said:
How about the theme??? 360?? Why the hell would they want to turn around and then go back to where you started? HA! How about 180?
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I didn't even realize that (Apathetic to the meeting), 360, right back where we started!?! Rolling backorders, shortage of stock because once again only one third party vendor. This quote will make my week.
 




































Do you think they will do one of the great "Ethical Moments" at the meeting.

Maybe they could put together a little video of the Board of Directors approving the bogus guidance for Wall Street. Then they could cut to the future with Begley being arrested at his Florida hideout.

SILENCE would indeed be golden.
 






Anonymous said:
Do you think they will do one of the great "Ethical Moments" at the meeting.

Maybe they could put together a little video of the Board of Directors approving the bogus guidance for Wall Street. Then they could cut to the future with Begley being arrested at his Florida hideout.

SILENCE would indeed be golden.
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SILENCE is golden but FAUX-TEGRITY is PRICELESS!
 






Anonymous said:
Does it really matter what gender wrote this?
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No it doesn't just when I replied the poster I made some reference which indicated I knew what sex they were i.e. when you reply to someone and call them mr or ms. Then some one wanted to know how I knew, so this post was strictly an explanation of why I addressed her as a woman.
 






I think it is absurd that they are having a sales meeting this year but I am curious what they possibly have to say. We are just going to get together and share horror stories about backorders. Normally sales meetings are to energize the salesforce with good news and products but I have a feeling this meeting will have the opposite effect.
 






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