POLYMEDCO????

[Anonymous]

Does Drew C still own this place?

 

[Anonymous]

It's almost Turkey Day Polyjoko!!!! At least you are famous for something. That can only mean one thing, time to fire some dead wood before Christmas time bonuses. It's all part of your holiday season tradition. Stick a fork in it.

 

[Anonymous]

As the Holiday season approaches, keep your heads down at Polymedco. This is otherwise known as Hunting Season. If you happen to be non white, female, overweight or an over performer the target is on you. It is this wonderful time of year when Pete analyzes how much more money he can make if he fires a bunch of good reps so he doesn't have to pay them their bonus. I don't know how I have lasted so long? Now that Pete demoted that lame ass Vince and even his own son Jay, those meetings in Chicago must be a real hoot. What a pathetic company and the most miserable place on earth. Polymedco is the anti Disneyworld! Good luck and I wonder who will be left by Jan 1? Maybe I'll be the sole survivor.

 

[Anonymous]

As the Holiday season approaches, keep your heads down at Polymedco. This is otherwise known as Hunting Season. If you happen to be non white, female, overweight or an over performer the target is on you. It is this wonderful time of year when Pete analyzes how much more money he can make if he fires a bunch of good reps so he doesn't have to pay them their bonus. I don't know how I have lasted so long? Now that Pete demoted that lame ass Vince and even his own son Jay, those meetings in Chicago must be a real hoot. What a pathetic company and the most miserable place on earth. Polymedco is the anti Disneyworld! Good luck and I wonder who will be left by Jan 1? Maybe I'll be the sole survivor.

Vince and Jay got demoted? I heard Vince was promoted to a national director for their new product line of DNA testing...

Never the less, it's the most horrible working experience I have ever been apart of. Not even horror stories from other companies can top this dump....

 

[Anonymous]

As the Holiday season approaches, keep your heads down at Polymedco. This is otherwise known as Hunting Season. If you happen to be non white, female, overweight or an over performer the target is on you. It is this wonderful time of year when Pete analyzes how much more money he can make if he fires a bunch of good reps so he doesn't have to pay them their bonus. I don't know how I have lasted so long? Now that Pete demoted that lame ass Vince and even his own son Jay, those meetings in Chicago must be a real hoot. What a pathetic company and the most miserable place on earth. Polymedco is the anti Disneyworld! Good luck and I wonder who will be left by Jan 1? Maybe I'll be the sole survivor.

Vince is a horrible manager. Just an awkward personality altogether. The guy is a broken record every time he talks to reps and physicians. So scripted and robotic.....

 

[Anonymous]

As the Holiday season approaches, keep your heads down at Polymedco. This is otherwise known as Hunting Season. If you happen to be non white, female, overweight or an over performer the target is on you. It is this wonderful time of year when Pete analyzes how much more money he can make if he fires a bunch of good reps so he doesn't have to pay them their bonus. I don't know how I have lasted so long? Now that Pete demoted that lame ass Vince and even his own son Jay, those meetings in Chicago must be a real hoot. What a pathetic company and the most miserable place on earth. Polymedco is the anti Disneyworld! Good luck and I wonder who will be left by Jan 1? Maybe I'll be the sole survivor.

The problem is that they are soooo dysfunctional the target ends up on the wrong people. Even their managers in New York are a bunch of useless dung heaps. The disconnect throughout the company is a longstanding tradition of the left hand not knowing what the right is doing. Interdepartmental coordination is totally absent and there never seems to be any hope of that changing. This company is so used to it's broken way of doing business there is no chance of seeing anything positive posted here or anywhere except on one of their occasional famous BS press releases where they brag about their products and services as if they even have a clue. All too funny and sad at the same time.

 

[Anonymous]

The problem is that they are soooo dysfunctional the target ends up on the wrong people. Even their managers in New York are a bunch of useless dung heaps. The disconnect throughout the company is a longstanding tradition of the left hand not knowing what the right is doing. Interdepartmental coordination is totally absent and there never seems to be any hope of that changing. This company is so used to it's broken way of doing business there is no chance of seeing anything positive posted here or anywhere except on one of their occasional famous BS press releases where they brag about their products and services as if they even have a clue. All too funny and sad at the same time.

It's almost Christmas time, and the end of the year Polymedco!! Time for Pete and the rest of his spineless management team to trim down the sales rep roster and save on bonuses and salary until 2014!

It's been a year or so since I left. How many reps are currently with the company??

 

[Anonymous]

are they hiring bad managers too? Is that one of the problems with the company? The managers turn into A holes like Pete? I would think that if they hired competent, understanding managers that these managers would push back if treating reps this badly.
If they are only hiring d bags then I don't want a job there either...will stay selling here until something better comes.
They said they have new products in the near future....tru?
are they paying commission on only new business per quarter?

 

[Anonymous]

are they hiring bad managers too? Is that one of the problems with the company? The managers turn into A holes like Pete? I would think that if they hired competent, understanding managers that these managers would push back if treating reps this badly.
If they are only hiring d bags then I don't want a job there either...will stay selling here until something better comes.
They said they have new products in the near future....tru?
are they paying commission on only new business per quarter?

Three of the managers have been with Poly for about 17 years each, so it's like a "good ole boys" club between the managers and the owners. One of the managers is Pete's son, so you can imagine the ego he might have managing reps. I have heard that during their time as managers, a couple of them had been demoted from the managers role into a sales role, then promoted back to a manager, so you can imagine there is no testicular fortitude within these managers to push back as you asked.

Read post #306. That's EXACTLY how this company is ran. "Turn 'em and Burn 'em" that's how they treat reps. Sure, one or two might last a couple years, even more, but eventually most reps get short changed in bonuses or commissions, or were completely mislead during the interview on what the job really was or offered, and decided to leave.

As for the new products in the pipeline, I don't recall hearing any when I was there. It was the FIT test and ESR line we sold. The FIT test is a good product, but isn't something doctors "need" to do, it's just a way for them to take advantage of better reimbursements and bring more money into their practice, which is fine, but as time goes on, the reimbursement rates will decline as more products like FIT flood the market. Speaking of that, there is WAY too much competition out there and Poly reps are simply overmatched. In any large city, you'll have reps from Cardinal, McKesson, PSS, and about a dozen other places selling a FIT test that have more reps, better visit frequency to those offices, and most of all, have a catalog of other products they can offer to the offices and "bundle" their products to make a better offer. With Poly, you sell ONE product, and no matter how low you go in price, one of the big distributors will soon pick you off.

The ESR line is outdated crap and worthless. But Poly will stroke your rod all day and make you think it's soooo important....yet when they launched FIT 7 years ago, they stopped the reps from pushing the ESR line and focus on FIT. Smart move...

Bottom line, if your unemployed, take the job and never stop looking!! Don't put Poly on your resume because it will be short lived. Make sure you have a vehicle that is either paid off, or already high mileage because they are cheap and won't let you fly to cover your territory. If you have a city 6 hours away, you're driving it! and $500 a month car allowance won't mean shit if your vehicle racks up miles and depreciates.

Good Luck!

 

[Anonymous]

Twas the week before Christmas when all through Polymedco every sales rep was stirring to try to keep their job

The pink slips were hung by Pete's chimney with care in hopes that he could screw over reps everywhere

The reps were all woried and and scared of the sack, while consatntly being forced to go peddle Pete's crap

And Rick and Pete in thier fine Italian suits had just settled in for a fine winters nap

When Pete ran a sales report there arose such a clatter, the sales were looking good but that didn't matter

Away to his phone he flew like a flash to tell Rick and Drew he was paying too much cash

With his pants pulled up high he had to act quick, Christmas is no better time to be a huge dick

More rapid than eagles he called his minions by name, and like good little slaves, how quickly they came.

Now Rick, Now Vince, Now Aaron and Drew, On Jeff, On Jay to Chicago they flew

From East Coast to West Coast big sales or small fire away, fire away, fire them all!

His eyes how they twinkled, his man boobs so merry, his checks were like roses ahis nose like a cherry

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow with the thoughs of his reps dropping like new fallen snow

He spoke nasty words and went right to his work, which is certainly Pete's specialty which is beign a jerk

He then sprang to his jet and gave a whistle, and away he flew to Florida like the down of a thistle

I heard him exclaim as he flew out of sight Merry Christmas to all and to all my reps........

YOU SUCK!!!!!!


Merry Christmas Polymedco

 

[Anonymous]

Twas the week before Christmas when all through Polymedco every sales rep was stirring to try to keep their job

The pink slips were hung by Pete's chimney with care in hopes that he could screw over reps everywhere

The reps were all woried and and scared of the sack, while consatntly being forced to go peddle Pete's crap

And Rick and Pete in thier fine Italian suits had just settled in for a fine winters nap

When Pete ran a sales report there arose such a clatter, the sales were looking good but that didn't matter

Away to his phone he flew like a flash to tell Rick and Drew he was paying too much cash

With his pants pulled up high he had to act quick, Christmas is no better time to be a huge dick

More rapid than eagles he called his minions by name, and like good little slaves, how quickly they came.

Now Rick, Now Vince, Now Aaron and Drew, On Jeff, On Jay to Chicago they flew

From East Coast to West Coast big sales or small fire away, fire away, fire them all!

His eyes how they twinkled, his man boobs so merry, his checks were like roses ahis nose like a cherry

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow with the thoughs of his reps dropping like new fallen snow

He spoke nasty words and went right to his work, which is certainly Pete's specialty which is beign a jerk

He then sprang to his jet and gave a whistle, and away he flew to Florida like the down of a thistle

I heard him exclaim as he flew out of sight Merry Christmas to all and to all my reps........

YOU SUCK!!!!!!


Merry Christmas Polymedco

HAHA!!! BRAVO!

EXCELLENT WORK!

 

[Anonymous]

That sir, was a phenomenal rendition of truth and wit.

 

[Anonymous]

Dude, I have to laugh. Read about the person fired right before Christmas by Pete in an earlier entry. This is an evil little company ran by brutal people. I hope Peter does not find any coal in his stocking. He is such a good person.

 

[Anonymous]

Ho Ho Ho Pete Sucks!

 

[Anonymous]

with my last company, the only people that came here to post were those that were whiners to begin with. I'm not saying everyone here is but one has to wonder the 3rd side of the story. My direct counterpart was a total waste of time and was not working...he even admitted it to me (while we were out having beers on company time...oops) but once he was caught not working and let go, he got on CP and berated the company and its management.
Is poly asking too much of their reps? Seems like some stay for many years but here just hearing 9mos and out!???
Are they micro managing? Goals attainable? too much nepitism?
Please gimme the straight dope....not a bunch of rants please....Thanks!

 

[Anonymous]

The best test as to how bad Polymedco is is to ask them how many people they have hired over the past 5 years and then ask how many are still there? If things are so great, why have so many people quit or more likely been fired? Then do a little research and find out how successful those who have left have been in thier next jobs. Polymedco is famous for producing award winning reps at other medical companies. Why are people so bad at Polymedco to get fired and then end up at Presidents's Club at their next companies? Polymedco basically sells a stool test and that is it. It isn't hard to understand or sell but the company punishes reps who do well by getting rid of them so they don't have to continue to pay bonus $ to them. This may sound like another rant but it is the hard truth.

 

[Anonymous]

I am a recruiter who has worked with Polymedco in the past and under no circumstances would I ever direct anyone to this company. Your best bet is to continue your search as making the wrong decision on a career move is far worse than being unemployed.

 

[Anonymous]

they said they have not used recruiters in past...but I believe you...anyone know anything about Aaron? I think he's the national sales manager now...supposedly they have hired 3 new regionals and looking for more...only 12-15 reps now...wonder how long they have been there...or how long till driven out. would really like a sales job in this market but wondering if I shoudl wait or keep pushing forward with them...

 

[Anonymous]

they said they have not used recruiters in past...but I believe you...anyone know anything about Aaron? I think he's the national sales manager now...supposedly they have hired 3 new regionals and looking for more...only 12-15 reps now...wonder how long they have been there...or how long till driven out. would really like a sales job in this market but wondering if I shoudl wait or keep pushing forward with them...

Well if history is any indication, and it usually is with many things, these new Regional Managers will probably be forced out, or have short tenures with Polymedco. This same thing happened 5, 7 years ago if you read the first posts. Managers were brought in from the outside, and shorty left the company while the original 3 of Vince, Jay and Aaron stayed on as usual. It's a sick, toxic work environment here, and I don't see how it will ever change.

I personally worked with a recruiter a couple years ago when I left Polymedco, and he said he'd heard many stories over the years of the mess that this company is by the reps who were either trying to get out, or had worked there in the past. And while Poly used to use recruiters about 10 years ago, they haven't since because what this recruiter quoted as having been told from on the the Poly managers as having a "turnover problem" with the company, so obviously recruiters aren't going to place people here if the person doesn't have any longevity and the recruiter can't make their money from it.

The OC Auto is a good product to sell and can provide good money, but its a long-term sales cycle, and can take months. So in the meantime you'll have to peddle their stool tests and outdated ESR crap on a daily basis which are not exactly must-have, ground breaking products. They are "me-too" products, and what that means is Poly and a bunch of other companies all make the same, similar products to get slice of the market share, neither of those two Poly products are the "best" compared to the competition, and your customers will only be loyal to whomever offers he lowest price.

 

[Anonymous]

Aaron wont change a thing. Poly can't change if the person in charge is the same person who has been there the whole time and has been part of the problem in the past. I heard they already fired one of the 'outside' regional managers ... probably because he pushed back on things. How can it get better there. I am sure the other managers are looking for something different.

I bet most of the sales reps are also looking.

Poly will always be a joke ...