The Dumbest Thing You've Ever Been Asked To Do

[Anonymous]

give drs candy bar and say some stupid schitt like "3 muskateers means 3 things for your patients...Efficacy, safety, and cost". A teenager could do this job. Hotties w totties, a bag of candy, and a dumb azz slogan are epitome of pharma.

now that's a good one!

 

[Anonymous]

The "ice cream socials" we're always quite embarrassing! Another genus move from Mary G.

The DUMBEST thing I ever had to do...
Pick up a stray dog found wandering in a Dr's office parking lot and drive 40 miles to take it to a shelter. Dumb ass vegetarian, dog lover DM. Glad Vein Centers of American got his sorry ass not!

 

[Anonymous]

do a LERN brainshark again after i completed it, because you have to wait 30 seconds after you get the "you have completed this module" message. UGG!

 

[Anonymous]

do a LERN brainshark again after i completed it, because you have to wait 30 seconds after you get the "you have completed this module" message. UGG!

No schitt. Abbott IT has been run by Mo, Curley, and Larry since Ive been here. My 20 hour a week job has ended up being 23 hours a week due to those dipschits.

 

[Anonymous]

Tell my doctors that "if colestipol + niacin can regress plaque, just imagine what statin + Niaspan can do."

The dumbest thing that I thought Ive ever had to do is sell Tricor (code term for snake oil). But I was wrong, the idea worked!! These idiot drs have been prescribing it for 14 years!!! Abbott is masterful. How many relaunches of Tricor have there been!!!!???? Unbelievable!!!!

 

[Anonymous]

I've been thinking about this job and trying to decide what has been the dumbest thing I've ever been asked to as an Abbott rep...

It goes a long ways back, but essentially it was an Abbott corporate lawyer trying to 'prime' me for a deposition. And by 'prime' I mean he wanted me to help make the case go away. I wish I had been smarter about it back then because I could have had his ass busted (maybe that means it was the dumbest thing I EVER did...but I was young and naive..)

So I'm curious, what's the dumbest thing you've been asked to do? And let's assume 'district flag making' applies across the board for everyone.

Calling in "suck cess" stories to make it sound as if I really implemented marketing initiatives in the field and making some fatass in the home office look good.

 

[Anonymous]

I've been asked to ignore the fact that my CEO has been lying about his education for 20 years!

 

[Anonymous]

I've been asked to ignore the fact that my CEO has been lying about his education for 20 years!

Me, too. Annoys the @#$N$%#@ out of me considering the management in our department treats its staff like criminals. Isn't it funny how the guilty always seem to project their own guilt onto others? Can't wait to get out of this place.

 

[Anonymous]

Do I really have to say it. Sell Simcor of course!

 

[Anonymous]

The candy bar thing...mine was Resins. Let me give you a Resin (hand over candy) to write ....for your patients.

 

[Anonymous]

Vision boards.....WTF?

 

[Anonymous]

not to order lunch for 32 people, only feed 5 and take the rest home

 

[Anonymous]

How about having us fly across the continent to sit in a room with your district and practice role plays on products close to patent expiration.

 

[Anonymous]

Write a new business plan every selling period for the same docs I've called on for 10 years.

 

[Anonymous]

not to laugh when I had to fly to Chicago to learn how to turn on an I Pad

 

[Anonymous]

Give Humira samples to doctors, even though I had not been to training yet.

 

[Anonymous]

During a National Sales Meeting we were asked to assemble bicycles for poor kids. That, in itself, as a very worthy activity. However, they coupled it with a speaker who droned on an on for 4 hours before we could build the bikes. God knows how much this guy took Abbott for. We were forced to listen to him without being given dinner till 9pm. What a waste of time! They should have just given us the bikes, which we were glad to assemble and be done with it. What a waste of time and money.

 

[Anonymous]

Give Humira samples to doctors, even though I had not been to training yet.

whacking off while on a field ride with my DM.

 

[Anonymous]

Dress up for halloween- one year we were selling a cherry flavored med and this lady dressed up as a big cherry. No joke....WT?/!

Was it for that deadbeat drug Omnicef??? Mary Gullo bought the chicken suit back in the early 2000's and rotated it throughout the different regions. What an a##hole idea and waste of money.

 

[Anonymous]

There are so many, but here are few:

1. After dropping my DM off at his car, drive down the road like I am going back into my territory, then taking some side roads to make sure I'm out of sight and head for home.
2. Pretend I care about the job, the patients, the physicians.
3. Sleep in a hotel room with another dude and tell myself it's not that gay.
4. Organize my trunk and read the sales aid the night before a DM ride so I can fake it real good.
5. Back in the day we kept call notes on paper. Before a DM ride I would fake all of the call notes for each doc over the last 30 days.
6. Order a fucking birthday cake...that's the fucking worst.
7. Take a fucking holiday picture with my pod mates - puke.
8. Wear my name tag when with my DM. So degrading.
9. Go to a workshop of any kind, closing, opening, whatever.
10. All time dumbest thing I've been asked to do - tell people what I do for a living and have to defend it so I don't look like a complete loser.