Dude this is pharma…everyone at every company is “playing the game”. This industry is a joke and we all know it. Us reps pretend like we are in the field from 8-5 and that we are hammering the same old tried marketing messages on every call, and the managers look the other way as they are doing even less than us and just fill their calendar with “travel” to appear busy and to collect frequent flier miles and hotel points.
Everyone of us is an empty suit! What do you really believe that when a oncologist uses Velcade it is because of you the rep!!! Nah it’s not all the publically available journal articles, ASCO presentations, and talking the KOL’s in the MM field…yeah it’s you the rep! Come on! You are the one who is clueless.
We are walking commercials who bring lunch…have a reality check, understand what this job is and what it isn’t and stop calling anyone out as clueless or an empty suit as every single one of us is guilty of milking this gravy train.
I applaud anyone who can play the game good enough to climb the ladder, make more money, while doing less work. Like it or not, that is and always has been the biotech/pharma model.
So in the immortal words of some rapper I’m sure I’ve never heard of…”Don’t hate the player, hate the game”
