First of all, I'm busy all the time. Second, none of this is going to help move my goal attainments on which I will be evaluated. You are obviously not from the Port 1 side.
Not so urgent afterall
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First of all, I'm busy all the time. Second, none of this is going to help move my goal attainments on which I will be evaluated. You are obviously not from the Port 1 side.
No matter how much you may dislike Merck, you are paid by Merck. Sometimes in life, my friend, you don't have a choice. When managers sit around next month to discuss who to lay off, little temper tantrums like yours about, "I am too busy" will enter their minds. You can bitch about your job but you still should do it. Speaking as a tenured rep to a rep with a lot of self esteem.
The point of this fire drill wasn't customer service or doing the right thing for the patients. The point is to get them to switch their patients to Vytoran 10/40 instead of Lipitor or Crestor. Pts on sim 80 are going to want off of it, Merck sees them as low hanging fruit.
Bingo! We have a winner. How is it when my customers saw the letter the first thing was to note ALL the medications that are now VERY problematic. They were so exicted to have to do chart and record pulls for this to ensure safety. I do not think anything like that was covered on the call. It was obvious to me Merck did this firedrill to try and sell more Zetia or have a switch from generic to lower dose BRAND Vytorin.
DUH!!! I can't believe so few of these people understand that. Of course it's about the switch.
I was thinking it was in preparation for a lipitor/zetia combo. Get simva out of the way as much as possible. I don't think it is necessary to do that, though, because generic lipitor is going to own the cholesterol market, without any backdooring by MamaMerck.
the whole excersice was way overblown. Way!
All much ado about nothing
All much ado about nothing
DUH--who said anything about bitching to my manager? That is what cafepharma is for. And who said I wasn't going to "divide and conquer" with my cluster? It is just my opinion that Port 1 didn't have to get involved...this wasn't the fire it was made out to be. FYI, I saw 15+ docs about this, and none of them could care less.
Of all I saw I had 2 agree to give me their switches. Man-o-man are my numbers going to go through the roof. My bonus might even be enough to take the family to Micky Ds.
Pathetic company with inept management looking for a way to make some brownie points with someone and nobody cares! Most smart reps have been mentioning this high dose statin crap for several years and the others will have to follow suit but we want to get out there first with "must and ballyhoo" to make the few customers that have ever used Zocor 80 feel like idiots...oh I forgot that's another word for Merck management! Those were the worst damn tele's I've ever been on and I've been on some boners, who are these assholes!
All hope is lost at this pathetic company. We have zero talent in upper management. These people wreak.
Perhaps it's a good way to get more Vytorin or Zetia Rxs written and improve our share price. That would be a huge positive. But seriously, with everyone from senior mgmt looking at reach and frequency on Dulera targets and growing that, a few weeks after everyone was pulled into an all-hands-on-deck district meeting to learn new messaging and recertify, now we have to stop what we're doing to rush and do this. And in another month we lose people for XR. So it seems a little schizophrenic - do you want us to try and grow this fucking product or don't you? Can we have a full week of promoting this without distraction, MAYBE?
OK, so now are you willing to finally admit your job and what you do is basically a joke? You had better realize this before it drives you insane or at least a little schizophrenic yourself. Your post indicates you take it way too seriously and actually care about selling something. In reality, what you do isn't about sales at all. It's all about keeping your management happy, learning that messaging stuff and getting certified or recertified, and keeping the reach and frequency gods happy, and getting all the other inane tasks accomplished that your manager has on their to-do list at the moment. That's really all it is. If you ever want to really sell something, you aint gonna find happiness in pharma.
Can we have a full week of promoting this without distraction, MAYBE?
On the other hand, we are the field sales reps and we represent Merck. You show up at an office not only to sell, but to communicate PI changes, recalls, or other Merck-related issues. Sometimes this is done per agreement with, say, the FDA to comply and document that indeed we have done it. There are outside forces like the FDA that Merck depends on and require us to check the box too.
Bitching is not going to help. May as well do the job. Get it done. A sales rep's job is always fluid and full of surprises and distractions. But the pay is better and the hours are flexible. Or you can find a production job if there is any left, join an union, punch in and punch out.
Bitching is not going to help. May as well do the job. Get it done. A sales rep's job is always fluid and full of surprises and distractions. But the pay is better and the hours are flexible. Or you can find a production job if there is any left, join an union, punch in and punch out.
Have another drink of kool Aid. You're not a salesperson. You're a delivery man. Accept it. You're overpaid and the company can't afford to waste the money any longer. Bye bye to all the reps within three years.
This is more right than wrong I must uncomfortably admit. Our moments of being a salesperson or having a significant impact on the company's sales/share are rare and getting rarer as our customer access further declines. We like to talk about our ability to move share in order to justify jobs, but in the end, what impact we truly have is anybody's guess.
Merck reps of 2011 or the last decade, yes.
Merck reps from before that, no.
The current crop of Merck reps in general are dumb.
Yes, they have turned our jobs into an overpaid UPS delivery person plus caterer.
Hopefully all sales reps will be gone soon, replaced by outsourced "reps" in India, augmented by contract sales reps.