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neuro and womens health among major hits now---I guess Port 1 and Port 2 get to suffer into the new year---his piecemeal attacks have to remind one of what is happening in Washington, no balls to make radical change just be comfortable in keeping everyone attached to a tether until the final curtain call
 
























13,000 is a huge number. Could be THOUSANDS cut from sales, and still ring true that cuts are disproportionately from other areas. Even though we have vacancies, they apparently aren't enough to make us safe.

Neuro and Women's Health now....wonder who is next?
 












Oh Marky Mark.... we knew your little math problem was exactly that.... if not "somewhat ambitious" (15X15) when we were sitting in on the 1S presentation you delivered. We're big girls & boys, just stick it to us straight! Make sure to cut deep enough to allow for those payoffs to the Perry camp and the legal ramifications that anti-kickback debauchery will cause & keep enough for you and your cronies at the top.

Shame, shame, shame! How do you justify being a part of a leadership team like that? Careful....lest the day of reckoning cast its dark shadow upon you. Greed is an ugly ugly thing.
 












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13,000 is a huge number. Could be THOUSANDS cut from sales, and still ring true that cuts are disproportionately from other areas. Even though we have vacancies, they apparently aren't enough to make us safe.

Neuro and Women's Health now....wonder who is next?
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About 100 reps in neuro US, not absorbed?
 






























Listen no one is a fan of cuts, I happan to think Mr. T is doing the right thing. He has to clean up the NCM disaster Bob Mcmahon left him. The idea that customers can love us and Merck is going to help them with their practice and patients is a complete pipe dream. Lets forget about ROI and drop 100k on Journey 4 control even if our customers dont prescribe Januvia. Makes me cry when I think of it.
Merck over the last 3 years has suffered from Münchausen syndrome. Lets take Culture surveys and make no talent employees matter. Lets change culture with Change agents from bottoms up, never hapenning. Safe to speak up is only warranted when it concurs with your manager and DCO. You want to change Culture hire someone from the outside that has no loyalties to anyone at Merck. You'd find many senior leaders gone from our company.

Stop trying to cater to ever demographic in the world ie. OPrah's best places to work in America. Make talent, drive, and determination the core values instead of skin tone, sex, and culture.

I think the cuts should start at our incompentant VPs work their way down to 30 percent DCO cuts. Lets be honest is anyone impressed with most of our directors. Then they should gut 60 percent of the CTLs and replace 30 perecnt with talent comprised from the field and outside areas like b2b and med device who have the ability to make reps better at SALES. My point is look around at your CTLs, how many could operate and sell in the current environment. Third, 50 percent cuts to the field and replace 20 percent with outside talent.
I've been at Merck for 8 years and can honestly say 80 percent of the field couldnt sell Lindsay Lohan an eight ball of Coke unless its first in class, best in class. Dulera isnt a shocker to me when I look around at my team.

Lastly, get rid of all MAE's, they are the modern day Grifters at Merck. THis postion is filled with lifer Merck Managers that were going to lose there Jobs during our last round of layoffs. Ask yourself this quesiton? Does your MAE have account management skills, can they filter and anaylsis data to see if they are having impact on accounts, are they great commuicators, can they develop account plans and business strategies, and lastly, would you follow them into battel. My answer is Fuck NO.

THe sad thing is if Mark Timney asked me my thoughts, I would say the exact opposite than Im posting on this board.
 






I have to agree the entire sales force is heavy...no matter what division. With upcoming patent expirations, something had to change. While I hate to see anyone loose their job, how can you justify a one drug sales force in any market.

When and how deep will the cuts be?
 






Please, offer hand raising to everyone. SP person here, let me have the SP/Fred package. It's time to go for something new, less stress, selling me-not Merck. Use the network of people for front desk to the providers. Already a good client base. Then say a prayer!
 












Too bad more people did not see this coming. Did you really think that when they announced layoffs of 13000 that it would be everyone except sales? Get a clue. Who believes this crap anymore from management? I have known our days were numbered and feel bad that so many in WHC have been delusional about their positions being safe. Look at the structure and how many reps there are in all the divisions. Merck has stockholders to report to, sales force is way heavy with reps. Time to cut costs in a big way. I hope and pray that all the separated reps will find peace in whatever happens to them. It is awfully hard to find a good paying job now and they will all need many prayers getting through this.
 












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Please, offer hand raising to everyone. SP person here, let me have the SP/Fred package. It's time to go for something new, less stress, selling me-not Merck. Use the network of people for front desk to the providers. Already a good client base. Then say a prayer!
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As an SP person I can easily remember the looks on everyones faces when Merck started (with some bitch that only works 2 Days a week) explaining to us how great the NCM was and how'd we be loved by our customers in such a short period of time! I almost shit...love by customers, get into their business, e medical records etc...these folks were taking long pot breaks at the home office! I can just imagine how Fred was laughing all the way to the bank on this one! A disaster for this company and anyone they buy..worthless managers, piss poor upper management on a 'trip' and a host of slackers who have not put in a good day in years! Then two months in they tell us they are cutting samples because we've been sampling too heavily and the customers can learn to live with less! What dumbasses..they've also learned to write less in the process! Packages look so good now to anyone who came over from a real pharmaceutical sales organization into the land of 'lala and MGAMs'! Thanks a lot 'FRED'!
 






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